The thing about habits is some — perhaps most — aren’t meant to last forever. We often hold on to them far past their expiration. When they are no longer healthy, helpful, or what we actually want from ourselves. Why? Because humans are creatures of habit. We need something to ground us. They…

I started listening to podcasts consistently during a summer internship when I was driving to work everyday. They are a great way — perhaps the best — to be around smart people and their ideas. (Books are another great way, but I find podcasts have less friction.)

As graduation approaches, I’ve been thinking more about where I fit into the world of tech. There’s so much to learn, so much to do.

For a little over a year, I’ve been academically-trained as a data scientist through graduate school. Before that I did my Bachelor’s in Information Systems…

I often find that setting up a new project is the most humbling part of programming. There’s just so much that can go wrong: you misspell a variable, download incompatible versions, or do something else that makes you question your sanity. Programmers new and old are all subject to it.

Deep breathe in. Deep breathe out.

Not sure about you, but a lot happened to me in 2016.

I traveled a bunch, wrote (and deleted) many lines of code, was hospitalized for some suspected weird travel-related disease (I’m…