Maureen Daum

If you enjoy feeling like an absolute dunce and losing about 20 IQ points, I highly recommend participating in interviews on the candidate side of the table. Even ones that went well kept me up at night replaying all of the nonsensical things I said in a fog of stress.... [Read More]

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I quit my job in March, and it was surprising to me just how difficult it was to quit despite it being abundantly clear that it was the right thing to do. I’ve always been annoyed with people who complain about their jobs but never did anything about it, and... [Read More]

This post was motivated by discussions at ICDE a few weeks ago, but between travel and moving and my normal levels of procrastination, it’s taken way too long to write up. It’s less polished than an optimistic-me imagined back in May, but it’s time to get my basic thoughts written... [Read More]

It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited to read a paper. I’m coming out of a period of burnout after wrapping up my Ph.D. and jumping back into industry. Thankfully things are coming back online after a few months of turning my brain off, and I was actually... [Read More]