Hello again
For a person who enjoys writing, I have a problem:
I don’t do enough of it.
I have a mostly reasonable excuse for not blog writing during the last few months: I was earning my data science certification from General Assembly. I studied in their Data Science Immersive program, 13 long, hard 40+ hour weeks of non-stop wake up wash up drive to campus lecture lunch lab drive home dinner homework sleep action.
My instructors recommended that we students start blogging. I thought I’d have time to write. I was wrong.
But now that I have graduated and am actively seeking full-time employment as a Data Scientist, I recognize now is also the time to start reinforcing my “personal brand”(ugh, what a gross term).
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I promise that I will do my darnedest to make this a weekly thing, at minimum. I freely admit to you a few things:
- I will try to keep this blog focused on data science. “Try” is the operative word; don’t count on me succeeding. It is far more likely that I will go on tangents and things that interest me that I think may interest you too.
- I really don’t enjoy bragging. Not without my tongue in cheek, to say the least.
- I get REALLY ticked off at those who humblebrag. That’s worse than bragging; that just proves their arrogance. So you surely won’t see me do this.
- There really is too much content, and there will only be more of it. Information is changing more rapidly than the human mind can absorb. For better or worse, the game is changing from how much one can remember to how efficiently one can be effective in obtaining and applying information… a total human RAM/ROM tradeoff. So I have hesitation adding to it without having something that I think is meaningful to write.
- I will do my absolute best to make my authorial voice and point-of-view singular, unique, and worth reading. I have been told on more than one occasion that even when I am jokey and lighthearted, there is always an underlying seriousness or truth I am expressing. Maybe that’s my unabashed Catholic roots showing. Nevertheless, fair assessment.
Anyway, for those keeping score, the blog title is a reference to the opening song from The Cars’ classic 1984 album Heartbeat City — and my favorite from them — reissued late next month. I’m a big music junkie, get used to it.
With all of what I wrote just now in mind, check out frankschieber.com (as shown above before reading this). You’ll read a short bio, see my data and marketing projects, and have a bit more understanding of where I’m coming from.
For today, ciao!
