These past two years have been a storm. Up has so often looked down, and when you’re that type of dizzy, all you have to hold on to, blindly, is your core. I got a promotion at work last week. I’d been fighting for it for six years. It didn’t feel like an achievement though,…
I’m noticing more and more people turning to ChatGPT instead of Google to search for information. While in Ireland last week, a friend of mine was turning to ChatGPT for restaurant and sight-seeing recommendations. It didn’t disappoint. AI is quickly and undoubtedly integrating into our daily lives – primarily, at least at this point, for…
I cried in her lap,her untamed blonde hair dangling in my face.I cried about a girl back home,a girl who didn’t want me,as she gently wiped my tears. I never looked up,never noticed her gaze.Not even when she said goodbye that night,watched me crumble blindly away. I remember her gaze years later,though,in the shadow of…
I used to gaze at the stars,scattered across crystal dark mountain skies.I used to wonder. The wounds metastasized,into inescapable mirrors. I can’t tell who I am anymore. So I try to capture stars,like fireflies,on a childhood summer night.
You left without a sound,floating, snout down, in the pool.You weren’t in your eyes anymore,all I found in them was me. Sliced my eyes with memories,so I didn’t see you slip underneath,alone,looking for me. I miss the excitement in your eyes,whenever they found me.They always did, for seventeen years,until one quiet afternoon,when mine didn’t find…
Incoming delayed review. I went to Saga, the fine dining restaurant perched on the 63rd floor of 70 Pine Street in the financial district, late last summer. Sitting outside on a terrace overlooking the hudson, the dinner view was one of the best I’ve ever had. The food was very good, but just very good….
My friend Tony and I sat at chef’s counter at corima and indulged in their tasting menu, which was incredibly reasonable for a michelin star place. Each dish was a mixed inspiration of northern Mexican and asian. Our waiter told me the chef sources a lot from neighboring China town, and spent time cooking in…
I found him floating in the pool out back, in that sunny backyard he loved so much. It’s taken me two months to write that. It still sounds as surreal to me as the day it happened in late January. For 17 years, he was my best friend. I knew he was getting to the…
What is a Clean Room? “Clean room” has become a buzzword these past few years, yet I still run into a lot of confusion from people on the subject. At a basic level, clean rooms enable the privacy safe comingling of 1st and 3rd party data. They achieve this by masking both data sets behind…
The past six months have been a whirlwind of change. My parents followed my brother and his family down to Raleigh last Fall, uprooting the last “anchor” I had in Baltimore. (Some of my best friends are still there.) My job changed pretty dramatically, pivoting me from ad tech architecture into larger data strategy. But…