Why You SHOULD Take Risks Early in Your Career (Patrick Akil) - KNN Ep. 118

09/29/22 • 59 min

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Patrick Akil. Patrick is a software engineer, consultant, and host of the @Beyond Coding Podacst. In this episode we learn about Patrick’s unique view on taking risks early in your career, we also learn some best practices for having difficult communication with your bosses and peers, and finally we learn about the very opportunistic way he was able to become the host of the beyond coding podcast. I loved this conversation and if you want to hear more of us talk, I was on his show a few weeks ago and that episode is linked in the description. Now on to our talk.
Connect with Patrick here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil/

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Quantifying "Soft Skills" to Get the Most Out of Your Career (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic) - KNN Ep. 117

Today I had the pleasure of iterviewing Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic who was introduced to me via my good friend and podcast guest @Luke Barousse . Cole tells stories with data. She is Storytelling With Data CEO and author of the forthcoming book "storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation" and best-selling books "storytelling with data: let’s practice!" and "storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals," which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop participants. For more than a decade, Cole and her team have delivered interactive learning sessions sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations all over the world. They also help people create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling stories through the popular SWD community, blog, podcast and videos. In this episode Cole tells us how data people can quantify what are traditionally considered "soft skills", where professional development intersects with career development, and how you as a data practitioner can maximize your career through communication.
Links:
YouTube - @storytelling with data
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/colenussbaumer/
Website - https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
Storytelling with You - https://amzn.to/3xHAer1
Storytelling with Data - https://amzn.to/3S5OG4b

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Jeremy Frank is the creator of the Twitter account @MLBRandomStats which has amassed nearly 100,000 followers. He's currently studying data science at Purdue University, and has previously interned at Sports Reference (creators of Baseball Reference, Basketball Reference, etc.) and for the Houston Astros working in their research and development team. In addition, he is known for co-creating the popular Wordle spinoff MLB Pickle (mlbpickle.com) and co-authoring two books about baseball stats across the history of sports. In this episode we learn how Jeremy got into sports, how teams use baseball data, and what he thinks of the new MLB rule set.
Jeremy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLBRandomStats

Ken's Nearest Neighbors - Why You SHOULD Take Risks Early in Your Career (Patrick Akil) - KNN Ep. 118

Transcript

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Even if you're a senior and you make a mistake, right? The worst thing you can do, worst thing is try and cover it up and make sure that no one sees what happened and people will find out, right? And it will look bad on you. Owning up to it allows the people that look up to you to see, Oh, this is a safe environment, right? And I'm not the only one that makes mistakes. It happens to other people. Other people I look up to as well. And it creates that safe space and al