What Data Pros Can Learn from Mr. Rogers
It was 1969. The US was in the middle of the Vietnam war. Money was tight and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications was holding hearings to de...
Category: Career Advice
When to Tell Your Boss No
I played the role of “boss” for many years in my career, and I never liked hearing the word no from my team. There are, however, a few occasions where I found i...
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Skills Gap (Data Science) is Your Chance to Win
LinkedIn recently published their Workforce Report for 2018 which gives us insights into the US job market from their 150 million members. For us Data Geeks, th...
Why Your Data Presentations Suck & How to Fix Them
I’ve worked with data for over half my life, almost 20 years now.. Throughout my career, I’ve been on teams that drove initiatives and helped guide the business...
Data Science for People in a Hurry
The thing is, every company already has a data science department, even if they don’t know it. In order to understand that though lets’ start with a defi...
What I Learned About Work, Money, Life, and Family
My answer to the Make Me Smart question from the podcast of the same name. I am addicted to Marketplace and all of their shows, this one is new and a particular...
Why I Quit my 200K/yr Job
Jack Benjamin Sullins born 2015-07-17 More on this later… photo: www.letsfrolictogether.com/
Finding Time for Everything
We all have a lot going on in our lives and things we want to accomplish. I've been fortunate enough to figure out a way to find time for everything I want whil...
Why Millennials Think Different About Work
I've been labeled a Millennial because of the year I was born in, 1982. I'm actually right on the cusp, but choose to call myself a Millennial because I associa...
The Hardest Skill for a Data Geek to Learn
In this live session I breakdown: Skill Categories Hard v Easy Stuff The Hardest Skill to Learn Where to Find More Join me every Wednesday at 12p PDT for live c...