What I'm Doing Now
🗓️ Updated: 29th November 2024, Singapore
Here’s what I’m doing right now, inspired by Derek Siver’s /now page (see if you can find me on the main page). A now page that tells you what someone is focused on at this point in their life.
It’s official!
I’m writing this update from a lovely cafe in New Bahru, sat across my friend Chris.
Singapore just approved my work visa and I’m delighted to start working as a Customer Data Scientist for H2O.ai next week. I can’t wait to deliver data-driven solutions for our APAC customers with Generative AI and machine learning.
It’s taken longer than expected - 108 days since the job offer to be exact. But I’m glad it’s finally over the line. Definitely a lot harder to be sponsored in Singapore these days from what I’ve heard. More red tape to get through.
I’ll document my onboarding process and implement these suggestions so I can start contributing asap.
What’s else is new with me since three months ago?
I’ve been preparing for my new role. I’ve completed a few courses on my new company’s products: Driverless AI and H2O Wave. I’ll be helping banking customers implement these products to solve their business problems.
I went through a refresher Anthropic course on prompt engineering best practices, LLM evaluations with promptfoo, and tool use. I recommend it, lots of nuance and explanation from the team.
I read these books:
- Machine Learning Design Patterns - best ML book I’ve read, will add my notes from this book. Thanks for the recommendation Kev!
- The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
- The Personal MBA
- Never Eat Alone
- and a few others
I’m reading these books to prepare for the consulting side of the role:
- On Writing Well - many familiar concepts from Google’s Technical Writing course I did a few years back to help write Government technical guidance. I sense this book inspired the course.
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy
- Influence
- Flawless Consulting
- Bulletproof Problem-solving
I bought a domain name for a directory business, after being inspired by the Startup Ideas Podcast. I’ll be playing around with v0 and Cursor to get that up and running.
On the health front, I’ve started a new gym membership and joined a new running club. My partner, friend, and I ran a wholesome Doraemon 10k around Marina Bay.
I previously thought that climbing was the best sport for networking, based on a few anecdotes: I almost worked at Spotify because of climbing, my partner found a new career in Data Strategy through climbing, and my brother found his junior software engineering position through climbing. However, I think run clubs might be just as good if not better. The free beers at the end of the run don’t hurt.