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“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”

 
U.S. Political System
posts
Winning the presidential nomination is all about delegates. But how does the process work? | PBS News
Bryan Whiting
Sunday August 18, 2024
 
Scientific method
posts
I use these seven steps to the scientific method every single day:
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday August 6, 2024
 
This is an A/B test
posts
Dude. You’re being experimented on. Aren’t you a little bit curious how it works?
Bryan Whiting
Monday August 5, 2024
 
Data science structure
posts
Over my career I’ve thought a lot about “where should a data scientist sit in an org?” 👇 5 lessons from what I’ve learned after working in 6 very different companies.
Bryan Whiting
Sunday August 4, 2024
 
10 steps to optimize anything
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I love-hate goal setting. Here are 10 steps I often fail at in how I try to breakdown and achieve goals, but hey, this is LinkedIn so I’ll share…
Bryan Whiting
Sunday July 28, 2024
 
Hungry Judge
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The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023) | Hacker News
Bryan Whiting
Sunday July 28, 2024

Reading this Daily
posts
#SundayThoughts Six weeks ago I stopped listening to podcasts in the morning and started listening to The Book of Mormon.
Bryan Whiting
Sunday July 14, 2024
 
Productivity
posts
productivity
Solid read: https://markmanson.net/attention-diet Over the last year I had read a few things similar to the points here and went on an “low information” diet (Tim Ferriss…
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday June 25, 2024
 
A Treatise on Agency and Goals
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I may have ADHD to some degree, I’m not sure. These thoughts came to me today when considering my side business.
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday May 15, 2024
 
Machine Learninf Resources
posts
ML
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday May 15, 2024
 
New business Checklist
posts
Getting paid is easy. Getting paid the right way is harder.
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday May 8, 2024
 
Failure and Countermeasures - Robert Rogers
posts
Robert rogers.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday May 2, 2024

My Advice for New Career People
posts
career advice
The keys for me for job satisfaction are now pretty basic:
Bryan Whiting
Thursday April 11, 2024
 
How to Sign in with iCloud Calendar on Outlook for iOS
posts
tutorial
tips and tricks
to my future self
How do I add an iCloud account to iOS Outlook without it being a public calendar?
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday April 3, 2024

Book Summaries
personal development
lists
Things I want to remember and review
Bryan Whiting
Saturday March 9, 2024
 
A Costly Mistake
posts
life lessons
data science
A kind word goes a long way
Bryan Whiting
Monday March 4, 2024

Implementing Culture
posts
interviewing
culture
business
A small boat with a large rudder will get there faster than a large boat with a small rudder.
Bryan Whiting
Saturday March 2, 2024
 
Nothing to Lose
posts
memories
Perspective is everything.
Bryan Whiting
Friday March 1, 2024
 
Personal Constitution
posts

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Bryan Whiting
Thursday February 22, 2024

Trajectory and Mindset
posts
career
career advice
decisions
Why do people say “don’t be complacent” in your career?
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday February 14, 2024

Team Misfits
posts
life lessons
leadership
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Einstein
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday February 13, 2024

World’s Longest Drive
posts
sports
golf
Full send
Bryan Whiting
Monday February 5, 2024

The Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission
posts
storytelling
writing
creativity
A captivating writing style
Bryan Whiting
Saturday February 3, 2024

The Compounding Interest of Reading
posts
reading
investing
Ask not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?
Bryan Whiting
Friday February 2, 2024

The Power of a Good Book
posts
ai
reading
It takes one to know one.
Bryan Whiting
Friday February 2, 2024

Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian
posts
tutorial
python
libby
quarto
blogging
Download the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas
Bryan Whiting
Thursday February 1, 2024

Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks
posts
data science
featured
career
recommendation systems
A/B testing
analytics
beginners
You only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)
Bryan Whiting
Friday January 26, 2024

The Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative
posts
my principles
philosophy
Seek not to be right. Seek to understand.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 25, 2024

Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author
posts
communication
writing
art
The rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday January 23, 2024

The Problem with Public Opinions
posts
philosophy
social media
Everyone has one, and they all stink…
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday January 16, 2024

You can plan your life in 5 minutes
posts
purpose of life
You know what’s good for you.
Bryan Whiting
Friday January 12, 2024

Junk attracts Junk
posts
laws of human nature
observations
philosophy
The law of junk
Bryan Whiting
Friday January 12, 2024

Biden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will
posts
politics
economics

Asking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right

Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 11, 2024

Cool Quarto Site
posts
quarto
tech
coding
Different things you can do pretty easily with quarto.
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday January 10, 2024

The six hour sandwich
posts
sales
life musings
people I meet
How to sell a breakfast sandwich
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday January 10, 2024

What’s your decision framework?
posts
insights from books
investing
memories
personal stories
emotional intelligence
Facts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday January 9, 2024

Organization and Minimalism
posts
minimalism
organization
software
parenting
When in doubt, “Afuera” it out!
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday January 9, 2024

Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy
posts
personal development
growth
grit
life lessons
data science
Doesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?
Bryan Whiting
Sunday January 7, 2024

Mark Cuban Mogul Support
posts
entrepreneurship
YouTube clip
AMA from Twitter
Bryan Whiting
Friday January 5, 2024

Write a thousand songs
posts
creativity
writing
Take the pressure off and write a little.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 4, 2024

When Leaders Lose their People
posts
leadership
Have I lost you too?
Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 4, 2024

The Multiverse of Careers
posts
meditation
deathbed meditation
career
decisions
Which path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with
Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 4, 2024

30 Seconds is All You Get
music
economics
incentives
posts
Apple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday January 4, 2024

My Tombstone
posts
mortality
work
work life balance
perspective
meditation
priorities
What will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday January 3, 2024

Your Mood is Contagious
posts
leadership
parenting
emotional resilience
grit
It may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.
Bryan Whiting
Wednesday January 3, 2024

Emotional Recovery
posts
Everyone recovers differently.
Bryan Whiting
Saturday December 30, 2023

Water as a Currency?
posts
water
economics
The book Dune is amazing in many ways, but the one that piqued my curiosity today was this: what if water was a currency?
Bryan Whiting
Saturday December 30, 2023
 
Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto
obsidian
quarto
tutorial
My framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.
Bryan Whiting
Friday December 29, 2023
 
Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog
quarto
obsidian
pkm
build in public
tool
tool comparison
Why I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.
Bryan Whiting
Friday December 29, 2023

97 percent chance you’ll fail
success
decisions
philosophy
The odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 28, 2023

Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft
decisions
Choose wisely, and enjoy the ride.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 28, 2023
 
Flipping the coins of life
philosophy
decisions
Are you right just because you got heads?
Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 28, 2023

Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision
decisions
storytelling
hindsight
But not because of the outcome.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 28, 2023

How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian
productivity
tech
tutorial

Working copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?)

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 26, 2023

Things I’d like in a blog
productivity
quarto

What quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it.

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 26, 2023

Write despite AI
ai
humanity
I’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write…
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 26, 2023

Writing is truly enlivening
communication
writing

Write in public. Write daily. Write about nothing.

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 26, 2023

AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans
ai
tech
futurism

From walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data.

Bryan Whiting
Monday December 25, 2023

Twas the Night before Christmas
christmas
ask gpt

The origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication.

Bryan Whiting
Sunday December 24, 2023

GitHub copilot levels up
ai
productivity
tech

What will it do next?

Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 21, 2023

The Allegory of the Dodo
productivity
business
kids books

When in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves

Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 21, 2023

The Little Red Hen
book review
startups

People love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread?

Bryan Whiting
Wednesday December 20, 2023

How to encourage your kids
parenting

Unexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 19, 2023

What is humanity
ai

Humanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved?

Bryan Whiting
Saturday December 16, 2023

LLMs can find a needle in the haystack
ai

GPT outperforms Claude.

Bryan Whiting
Friday December 15, 2023

Prompt techniques
ai

Open AI strategies

Bryan Whiting
Friday December 15, 2023

Learn by doing
data science
tech

You don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle

Bryan Whiting
Wednesday December 13, 2023

Future of Coding
data science

As our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 12, 2023

How do you want to be remembered?
leadership
service

It’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question.

Bryan Whiting
Friday December 23, 2022

Building a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT
data science
r
shiny
futurism
chatgpt
ChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet…
Bryan Whiting
Thursday December 15, 2022

Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science
tech
startups
business
data science
Data Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer…
Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 6, 2022
 
Resume Substance over Style
communication

The content of your resume is more important than the design.

Bryan Whiting
Friday November 18, 2022

Writing a Tech Resume
communication

How to write a resume to get into a FAANG company.

Bryan Whiting
Friday November 18, 2022

What is a model?
data science

Putting the mysterious in context.

Bryan Whiting
Saturday November 12, 2022

De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person
data science
communication
principles

How can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches.

Bryan Whiting
Wednesday July 20, 2022

When data collection goes too far
productivity
futurism
tech
surveillance

It’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO.

Bryan Whiting
Sunday July 3, 2022
 
Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything
productivity
musings
ticktick

To be more present, get it all down and into a system.

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday June 28, 2022

Pomodoro Principles
productivity
ticktick

The art of focus through 25min work blocks.

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday June 28, 2022

How I use TickTick
productivity

An overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD.

Bryan Whiting
Saturday June 25, 2022
 
New ideas are distractingly exciting
productivity
priorities
ideation

Be careful of recency bias with your ideas.

Bryan Whiting
Thursday June 23, 2022

What is the best todo list manager?
productivity
app review

I’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them.

Bryan Whiting
Thursday June 23, 2022

Downstream Impact
data science
experimentation

When you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever.

Bryan Whiting
Wednesday June 22, 2022

Products for dads
productivity
fatherhood

What products am I still using 5 years later?

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday June 21, 2022

The Power of Party Pay by Visible
startups
strategy

Visible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect?

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday June 21, 2022

Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore
data science

I’m trying out quarto and I like it.

Bryan Whiting
Monday June 20, 2022

The Author’s Angle Matters
communication
writing
Imagine the following story:
Bryan Whiting
Saturday July 17, 2021

Productivity notes
data science
productivity

Running list of productivity ideas.

Bryan Whiting
Saturday December 19, 2020

How to mock the value of an ML solution
data science
innovation

Sell your solution before training your model.

Bryan Whiting
Wednesday December 16, 2020

Data Beats Opinions
data science
decisions

Opinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words.

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 15, 2020

Get rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.
productivity

If you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter?

Bryan Whiting
Tuesday December 15, 2020
 
Semantic Versioning for Data Science Models
data science
machine learning

Meaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines.

Bryan Whiting
Monday July 2, 2018
 
Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2
webscraping
r
regression
analysis
pricing
buying things
How I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.
Bryan Whiting
Sunday February 19, 2017
 
Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1
webscraping
cars
pricing
r
How I scrape used car data.
Bryan Whiting
Saturday February 18, 2017

The DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2
dataviz
r
ggplot
plotly
What can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?
Bryan Whiting
Friday February 10, 2017
 
Starting with Jekyll
productivity
blogging
jekyll
Hello world.
Bryan Whiting
Thursday November 17, 2016
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