"Ever, as now, do I go all a-grope amid the wide mysteriousness of things."
Hello! I am a data scientist, currently living in Brooklyn.
I’ve worked in tech for the past 16 years, and I’m now on VC-backed startup #8. I’ve been the founding data hire twice, and I have experience in all three of the main subdepartments of data: data engineering, analytics, and machine learning/AI.
I’d like to write for a living someday—it’s been my strongest skill since I was a kid.
Writing
For proper essays, I’ve fully migrated all my posts from Medium. My favorite piece of writing that I’ve ever done is a long essay called “Le Chéile.”
I’ve been dumping my thoughts on Twitter since 2010. They’re not all diamonds.1 Microblogging really works for me, so for better or worse, some of my “serious” writing is actually embedded in tweet threads.
Thoreau wrote in his journals on February 8, 1841: “My Journal is that of me which would else spill over and run to waste, gleanings from the field which in action I reap. I must not live for it, but in it for the gods. As if it were not kept shut in my desk, but were as public a leaf as any in nature.” Thus, in this very egocentric fashion, I like to make my leaves public. Work in public, write in public, think in public!
Logging
I log movies on Letterboxd and books on Goodreads. I’ve started a separate section for this, Logging.
Data
If you’re here for professional reasons, I’ve posted some of my favorite data projects and technical writing.
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Easy A (2010): “I don’t know what your generation’s fascination is with documenting your every thought, but I can assure you: they’re not all diamonds. ‘Roman is having an okay day and bought a Coke Zero at the gas station’? ‘Raise the roof’? Who gives a rat’s ass!” ↩︎