Data
“I wanted this man on my side. He had access to data.”
—Don DeLillo, White Noise
“Mondaugen set out for his turret and oscillograph, and the comforts of Science, which are glacial and few.”
—Thomas Pynchon, V.
I track lots of things beyond art consumption—restaurants, haircut cadence, biking miles, illnesses—but my centerpiece project is my Friend CRM.
Friend CRM
Here’s the tweet thread from when I launched this project in the first year of COVID, explaining the original intent. And I’ve just kept it current through today!
Job tenure
I’ve had two instances where two back-to-back jobs really represented a single role: Northwestern (Kellogg) and University of Chicago (Chicago Booth) were essentially the same role under one research group, and Thinx and Kimberly-Clark were essentially the same role because of the latter’s acquisition of the former. When I calculate my average tenure, which is 2.37 years (Typical millennial in tech? Who knows?), I thought it made the most sense to combine these jobs.