“Mise en Place” is a French culinary term for putting everything in its place. It’s a way to prepare your kitchen for cooking, and more importantly, a technique to make it possible for you to do your best work. The five basic steps of Mise en Place… Continue reading »
I don’t have a graduate degree (Masters or PhD) and honestly will likely never get one. Sometimes this can feel like a limiting factor in a technical data scientist role. However, there are ways to fill in some of those gaps to limit this imposter syndrome. Really the… Continue reading »
Though we undoubtedly crossed paths a few times beforehand, Mike Gerbush ’09 and I didn’t formally meet until just before the pandemic. We had both attended Williams College, but one of us is six years older (you’d never know by looking at me) so we didn’t overlap. One of us also… Continue reading »
Venture Capital is an industry defined by long feedback cycles and avalanches of uncertainty at every turn, yet the prevailing narrative and style of most new venture capital investors are to stay up to date daily with newsletters, funding rounds, deal sizes and the opinions of everyone but their own. Continue reading »
Five years ago, I left a financially rewarding but personally unfulfilling first job in finance to take advantage of an opportunity to compose music for commercials. Overwhelmed with excitement, I took every penny I had (plus a huge pay cut) to pursue my dream of a professional music career in… Continue reading »
As the former CEO of Mission Bit, I was a passionate advocate of bringing coding education to every public school student across California. We involved community leaders, idealistic college students, seasoned educators and some of the largest education funders in the Bay Area to support our cause. To… Continue reading »
“What is Big Data and how could it impact my career?” In my current work, I often get asked this question. Here’s a quick primer on Big Data, its present and potential benefits, and why some of its most groundbreaking future users will possess a liberal arts education. Big Data… Continue reading »