Career
🤝 Why I'm Betting on Hugo
If you aren't familiar with Hugo, it's a collaborative, centralized interface for meeting notes that connects with a bunch of other tools. The team recently closed a $6.1 million seed round...
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Reading
💡 Where Good Ideas Come From in 5 Minutes
What kind of environments breed innovation? What sparks a flash of brilliance? Steven Johnson tackles these questions in Where Good Ideas Come From by finding common patterns among notable inventions...
Thinking
🤔 The Nassim Taleb Starter Pack
I've always had fun learning new ways of thinking, especially when the ideas turn out to be practical. Luckily, Nassim Taleb has produced a gold mine of meaningful ways of thinking...
Career
💣 Barrels and Ammunition
Last week, I watching some talks on Youtube and came across one that stood out to me. Keith Rabois introduces the concept of barrels and ammunition, which I thought was a really clever way to view organizations...
Reading
🌱 High Growth Handbook in 6 Minutes
One perk of this quarantine situation is that with no social events and no commute, I've starting reading more again. Most recently, I finally finished working through High Growth Handbook from Elad Gil...
Data Science
🐿 5 Lessons from Life as a Data Scientist
This detour away from further specialization in data science surprised a lot of people. I learned a ton as a first-time data scientist from both a technical and a functional perspective...
Career
🚀 How to Search for Startups
I've wanted to work at an early-stage startup for a while now. It's hard to believe that it's actually happening. This post exists to share what I learned throughout the process, in the hopes of helping you find your rocket ship...
Career
📈 A Framework for Career Decisions
I recently decided to join Hugo, a fast-growing startup creating a smarter interface for meeting notes. Eventually, I simplified my thinking down to a framework for assessing current and future career opportunities...
Writing
📋 Why Data Scientists Should Write
This is an article that I've been meaning to write for a long time. After nearly 4 years of practicing both data science and writing, it's long overdue that I share my feelings on how the two interact...
Development
💻 How I Built My Blog with Gatsby and Ghost
It became clear that I needed to make a decision on what technologies I wanted to use. Since a lot of my learning was focused on Javascript and more specifically React, I started there...
Writing
✏️ Connections Before Advice
Actionable takeaways are a nice touch, but they aren't the most important thing. Turns out, they aren't your audience's focus and shouldn't be yours either...
Life
💪 Strong Identity, Weakly Held
There are certain things that have become part of your identity. This is true whether you consider yourself a writer, programmer, teacher, or artist. The list is infinite. We all identify as something...