THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR is a semi-regular column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Kill Your Darlings I am working on a project with a friend who … Read more
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR A monthly-ish column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in July. What Should … Read more
For the 2015 edition of the NYPL Open Book Hackathon, I participated with a team that was interested in pulling poetry out of Project Gutenberg and creating a user dialogue with a goal toward creating a custom book of poems, based on user preferences. We started out calling it “Pandora for Poetry,” but settled on … Read more
…and for my first piece of post-MLIS magic, I started a project cataloging cows. Literally. It’s a small cattle ranch management app and won’t be public. Mostly coding and connecting to no-SQL database MongoDB, which is based in JSON and has interesting linked data possibilities. I have also started interning at Architecture_MPS, an online architecture … Read more
