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Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs. ”
I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better. ”
My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand. ”
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum. ”
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good. ”
Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face. ”
The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones. ”
As a young performer, what you need to be doing is building your technique and musicality, not promoting your abilities - unless you're ready to take on all that will result from such an approach. ”
My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences. ”
I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do. ”