Tag: Give

While having cocktails with a friend, she lamented that at midlife she was all out of f@cks. To quote my forty-five-year-old stunningly eloquent companion, she said, “Gaze upon my field of f@cks, and notice there are none.” I nodded along in agreement. When I hit forty, I had com...

I expected to come back to New York and feel like I felt at the beginning, when I got my first look at the city. Riding a train south from Rhode Island, I looked up, and there was Manhattan, the silver stilettos of the skyline regal in the orange sunset, an intricate Cubist brooch on the breast of t...

They surprise you with a birthday cake. Confetti sprinkles, candles, and a card signed by thirty people. Playful memes in your inbox. Pats on the back are jocular, familiar. They ask after your family, know the names and ages of your children. Maybe they even know about the fertility treatments, the...

I’ve been working as a Data Scientist at Spotify for 2 years now, and I can say that changing careers from business to data science sits very high on the list of best decisions I’ve ever made. Data science can be an amazingly rewarding career choice. Getting there is another story. ...