About five weeks ago, I published my first (month #1) update on my latest journey: Data Science.I’m back for another round—with a whole lot more learning. My first month was focused on learning SQL—a language that several people had insisted was “table stakes” for getting into Data Science or any kind of analytics or insights […]
It’s been about a month since I had my summer break from work and started my newest learning journey – Data Science (and/or Analytics). I’ve been keeping a learning journal and thought it might be interesting to write something in longer form—as well as crosspost this to LinkedIn where this journey takes on a meta-angle […]
Frank O’Hara is my favorite poet and now that I live in New York City I think about him all the time and sometimes in my head I try to write like him and ignore punctuation or moderation completely. To me, no poet encapsulates the true wonder of New York City like he did. Because […]
Barring any paradigm-shifting event in the 2020 presidential race (of which there are still months of possibility), I believe the election is already so far tilted that it could be called over and that Donald Trump will win. I’ll explain this below—and why this is sour conclusion has implications well beyond this year. There have […]
I made it a goal this year to write more on this site. I only wrote 7 posts on this site last year, so more should be easier. Yet, I’ve struggled for the first 5+ weeks of this year on formulating a full post. I have a few things brewing that I’d like to finish, […]
A year ends and a decade with it. I’ve been thinking in the latter terms recently—like in publishing this list of my 100 favorite songs of the decade. But 10 years provides a whole lot more reflection than does one, even if this one had a lot happen. The decade started out in my senior […]
About a year ago, I started putting a playlist together of what I thought were the best songs of the decade. It was about 4 songs for the first eight months, forgotten about. I can’t remember why I started and I don’t remember why I switched it to being ‘favorite’ songs (a distinction that matters […]
For one year now, I’ve been carrying around and writing in a leather bound notebook that was gifted to me. The first entry is from August 1, 2018, written in a town in Sri Lanka called Ella. The latest entry, written today—August 1, 2019—is copied, along with the former below. August 1, 2018 — Ella, […]
For six months, I’ve been thinking about Page 383. Why? Page 383 is the end of the first draft of my novel. The first draft that I finished in September of last year. That draft, when printed in Arial 12 size font with stretched margins, came out to be 383 pages. And since I printed […]
Years ago, when I was nomadic full-time, I wrote in a notebook that I thought one needed to be in a place for 6 weeks to fully feel lived-in—to get some kind of first real understanding of a city. I don’t know the mathematics of how I came to that number (likely none) but I’ve […]
