“It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else's perfectly.”--Bhagavad-Gita Hosting rooms on Clubhouse and being invited to speak on podcasts I am noticing a theme to many questions. Curiosity tends to vacillate between “how to get a job,” and “where to find the data”. The idea came to me today that perhaps folks are just worried about messing up. This doesn’t make sense. There is not a single correct way of following your path. Two things I can share that might help. Build a platform. It can be on LinkedIn or any social media avenue of your choice. Create visualizations, stories, and conversations to be discovered. This is where you declare “this is me.”. It doesn’t mean you will become everybody’s cup of tea or be competitive for every job but it does provide you with the dimensionality of a person instead of a hiring algorithm or a flat paper CV. The data hunt is a little more straightforward. Head over to twitter and follow those of us that work in the geospatial space. A large chunk of the datasets I use regularly were discovered from colleagues by reading their research or following discussions. What have I been up to? Here is a recording of our podcast interview on LinkedIn Live.A recent story I wrote on Substack provides a little context for my heart operation earlier this month. This is not jazz: last thoughts before sedation
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