Our bosses live in our phones
For a couple years now, I’ve been trying to figure out who owns my phone. Not physically. I know for sure that I overpaid Apple for the privilege of...
The beautiful grind
I’m coming up on being halfway done with my second maternity leave (😩), and since I spend all day on maternity leave, I also spend a lot of time thinking...
Neural nets are just people all the way down
When I was in seventh grade, we had to take a class called home ec. Everyone brushed it off as a super easy class. “All you have to do is cook and sew,”...
The curse of being Big on the Internet
I first came across Siraj Raval around 2016, when a data scientist friend sent me his video. “This is ridiculous,” he said, and I had to agree that it was....
Backing up our lives on Dropbox
Vicki B🎃ykis @vboykis"Dropbox brings your files together, in one central place. They’re easy to find and safely synced across all your devices." Natalia...
How much I make running a paid newsletter
Social media platforms are becoming bigger than ever (Facebook claims 2.4 billion monthly active users),but it’s harder to find any real people on there....
How do you like THAT, Elon Musk?
(Vicki’s note: 👋 Hello new followers who came from the Stack Overflow Newsletter and Elezea! I’m a data scientist in Philadelphia and this newsletter is...
The death of the last comment section on the internet
Vicki’s note: This is a post by request from Rian, who runs the Elezea newsletter, which you should definitely check out. As always, please send me requests...
Greta on mute
Like a lot of people, I’ve been following Greta Thunberg over the past couple of months. As the press hype around her has grown to a fervor pitch, I’ve been...
Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
In the beginning, writes Jay Kreps, co-founder of Confluent and co-creator of Kafka, there was the log. which WeWork, now imploding, still does not needA log...
Sorry, I won't hire you
I saw this Twitter thread a couple days ago (thanks, Stas!), and I’ve been thinking about it ever since: Toxic @toxicIf I see palantir on a resume, I trash...
Silicon Valley runs on Saudi
Vicki’s Note: I actually wrote this before I even went on maternity leave and originally had this scheduled to go out on Tuesday, but due to recent events in...
Was the meeting worth it?
Earlier this week, the baby slept for four hours in a row, and I started getting crazy ideas, like taking a 10-minute shower and starting to work on some...
Between sales and execution culture
Vicki’s Note: This is the third part in a series on data science and consulting, a topic near and dear to my heart, since I work in consulting and do data...
Books I'm reading lately
I’m not sure how, but I’m still managing to do some reading. Must be all those late-night feeding sessions where I blearily stare at my phone screen for 20...
Le Tweet, C'est Moi
On Friday, hackers took over Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account and tweeted racial slurs for about fifteen minutes until Twitter finally shut them down. The...
Thread: WeWork, dongles, and Demo Day
There is so much Normcore-y stuff going on lately that I couldn’t decide on a single topic for this week. Consider this is an open invite to discuss any of...
No photos please
Lately, my Facebook feed is a ghost town. I don’t mean that no one posts on it anymore, just that when I scroll through it, I get no information from it....
Measuring unhappiness
Note: This is the second part of however many I feel like in a series about data science consulting. Check out the first part, on selling data science, here....
All my dongles
Ever since I got the iPhone 8 last year, I’ve had a dongle problem. The dongle is the stupidest decision Apple has made in the last five years (other than...