Life
🧳 6 Months Digital Nomading: A Review
In the wake of the pandemic, more and more people have opted to go the digital nomad route. I find that everyone’s experience is a little different, so hearing others’ perspectives is valuable...
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Reading
🎓 Notes on Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman recounts the experiences of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with endless stories of academic and non-academic adventures...
Data Science
🗃 Making Dashboards Suck Less
There has recently been a lot of chatter in the data community about dashboards. Most of which converge on some version of “dashboards suck but what else,” as Benn Stancil points out in Data is for Dashboards...
Reading
🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia
The Making of Prince of Persia outlines Jordan Mechner's journal entries describing how an idea progressed over time and eventually became a best-selling video game...
Reading
🧮 Notes on Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals from Oliver Burkeman is yet another way to frame productivity and time management, but this one takes a refreshing approach...
Data Science
📲 Towards Modern Data Apps
It feels like now some especially interesting things are coming to fruition in the data space. We’ve heard about The Modern Data Stack. We’ve heard about The Future of Work. But what happens when they meet?
Life
🎒 Quick Rules for Travel
I’ve been bouncing around from place to place, learning a ton about my preferences for traveling and environments in general. These preferences have started to inform a set of “rules” that I’m going to apply to future travel...
Reflection
📆 2021 Year in Review
This is my third annual review in which I look back on how the last 365 days turned out for me across a number of areas. I'll follow the same structure as last year's review...
Tech
🧰 Tools I'm Loving Right Now
It's important to remember that outcomes are what matters, not the tools. But there's also a reason why tools are such a conversational centerpiece. Tools influence those outcomes a lot of the time, sometimes in a pretty big way...
Data Science
📜 NLP and Self-Serve Analytics
As GPT-3 and its counterparts have come into the mainstream, I've begun seeing products and conversations about the interaction between Natural Language Processing and data analytics appearing more and more frequently...
Growth
📓 Reforge Recap: Advanced Growth Strategy
The idea here is to zoom out and understand bigger-picture elements to how you grow rather than focusing in on specific tactics. As always, I recommend checking out the original content for a deeper dive...
Reading
💠 Notes on Shape Up
I made my way through Shape Up last month and really enjoyed it. Shape Up is a methodology for product development teams put together by Ryan Singer and the folks at Basecamp..