Productivity Guilts associated with “excuses” are unnecessary–they’re impediments, and they can be dealt with. Inspiration. It’s always there. More often than not, people view things like “procrastination” as a negative. People feel guilty when they’re not productive. There’s a lot to
Product Management Designing a chatbot that communicates using your slang and dialect. As an artist with a need to self-market, I need a way to stay on top of my social media, just to attain any level of visibility when compared to the multitude of loud and popular artists of this day. (No disrespect. I fucking love Billy Eilish’s whole art.)
Technical Big Data Management with an Intelligent Data Lake Notes on Informatica Big Data Management with Intelligent Data Lake Deep Dive and Demo Informatica Big Data Management (BDM) Secure/GovernSecure & Govern, Connect, Ingest, Parse, Extract, Profile, Process, PerformPolyglot
Ideas Uncertainty. Instability. Impermanence. It’s inherent. You start to notice in common things. Your computer crashes, for example. Or your “check engine” light turns on. Or, it doesn’t need to be technical: you need new
Ideas On quantum entangled particles that seem to “communicate” faster than the speed of light Einstein’s intuition kept him from fully embracing some of the discoveries of quantum mechanics. He called it “spooky action at a distance.” But time and time again, the predicitions of Quantum Mechanics proves to be infallible. But maybe, that’s not good enough.
Music Notes on Hans Zimmer’s Masterclass on Film Scoring - Day One I signed up for Hans Zimmer’s film scoring MasterClass series. I signed up because I would genuinely love to score music for a video game, trailer, commercial, film, etc.
Music “Dimensions: We Search” An instrumental musical improvisation and poetry about Data Science This song is about making discoveries. Searching. Finding new ways to look at data. Interpretations. With constraints. Yet limitless. “Like early mining and the discovery of a small vein. You
Music Music For A Quantum Nightmare In recent years, I’ve found myself fascinated by the sciences that I didn’t have the opportunity to learn and experience back when I was in school and university
Music My Music: Winter Improv 2019 This isn’t the most fluid improvisation piece. It’s often difficult to get in a comfortable place. It’s more of a self-conscious + carefully-courteous thing, in that I don’
Data Science From OKRs to Insights to Data Lakes, Data Catalogs, and Data-Driven Decision Making. Business leaders tend to worry and wonder. Are they behind the trend, in terms of being a data-driven company? Custom-built solutions are being replaced by managed solutions with managed cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. You’ll be hearing more about things like “Democratizing data”.
Product Management On meaningful measures and better KPIs When I was a newbie, I'd I often forget the difference between a KPI and an OKR, so let's start with that. OKR = Objectives and Key ResultsA popular leadership process
Music “SCOBY In A Clear Plastic Cup Of Tapwater” – Minimalist Chillwave Improvisation Improv using GarageBand for iPad Pro 2019. I played the intro with the Chinese Erhu patch without a physical instrument controller. The rest was done in a single take with
Ideas Reflections on this morning: An elderly Asian man slipped and fell in the rain And nobody seemed to notice.While driving to work in Pasadena, where the residential and commercial areas meet I was driving on South Lake through the area where residential area
Product Management The Role of Stories in Data Storytelling How do you put yourself in the best position, to make sense of a mass of data, in order to gain insights, and then inspire people to change based on the discoveries?
Productivity Some thoughts on Journaling In the late 90s and early 2000s websites like LiveJournal, Blogger, and Xanga dominated the social web. People shared their lives, their intentions, their frustrations and emotions through writings.
Product Management Splunk, and How Domino's Pizza Uses It For Insights, To Create a Better Food Experience As a data product manager, it's come to my attention that I really need to pay closer attention to Splunk.I've heard it mentioned fairly often over the years. But
Data Science How Spotify uses Google BigQuery for Data Insights This evening, I spent some time looking in to how engineering/data-proud companies like Netflix and Spotify do their data analytics. Here are my notes on "DATA & ANALYTICS -
Technical How user behavior on a web app is recorded using tracking snippets (Google Tag Manager) Behind the Code: Using the Data LayerNotes come from this video: We want to know about really detailed user behavior. To do this, requires lots of bits of JavaScript to
Music Unpresentable Works I’ve spent most of my life feeling like my work, my art, my writing, my ideas, my music, all of my creations–are unpresentable.I compare my works-in-progress to
Technology False Starts and Little Failures: How (not) to set up SSL (HTTPS) for a WordPress Website hosted on AWS Lightsail Often times in life, we don’t get the opportunity to see behind-the-scenes. We are presented with the outcome. The final piece of work. We see nothing but the what,
Product Management Notes on First 90 Days as a newly-hired Product Manager I like to be prepared. I like to be nimble, but I also like to be prepared. So prior to starting a new gig as a senior product manager at a major US tech company, I spent a lot of time reading and watching Youtube videos on Product Management. This one, presented by Product School, stood out to me.
Productivity The Uncertainty Principle: What it means and why I like to “Take Things Slow” The Uncertainty Principle is just a creative subtitle given to this post. The Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics asserts a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain physical properties
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Services Original Music and Sound Design for Film & Video Games I enjoy composing and recording music with a unique cinematic feel. Music can mean a lot of things. I'd love to work with you, to find the sounds and feelings
