Personal

The story of how I joined Work on Climate as a volunteer and became its data tech lead, with lessons applied to consulting & fractional work.

I put the book to use after the first listen, and will definitely revisit it in the future to form better habits.

Jonathan Stark makes a compelling argument why you should have the three Cs before quitting your job to go solo consulting.

Shifting focus to ‘Data & AI for Impact’, with more startup-related content, increased posting frequency, and deeper audience engagement.

When focusing on a market segment defined by personal beliefs, it’s often fine to position yourself as a generalist in your craft.

It turns out that problems like finding a niche and defining the ideal clients are key to any solo business.

Reflections on publishing on this website: Writing publicly to share thoughts and documentation beats chasing views and likes.

While I found the story of Gumroad interesting, The Minimalist Entrepreneur seems to over-generalise from the founder’s experience.

A summary of the second chapter of Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small, along with my thoughts & reflections.

A summary of the first chapter of Rob Walling’s Start Small, Stay Small, along with my thoughts & reflections.

Time can be spent doing different activities, but it can’t be stored and saved for later.

Discussing my recent career move into climate tech as a way of doing more to help mitigate dangerous climate change.

I wanted a well-paid data science-y remote job with an established company that offers a good life balance and makes products I care about. I got it eventually.

Video and summary of a talk I gave at the Data Science Sydney meetup, about going beyond the what & how of predictive modelling.

Insights on data collection and machine learning from spending a month sailing, diving, and counting fish with Reef Life Survey.

Progress since leaving my last full-time job and setting on an independent path that includes data science consulting and work on my own projects.