Hello Reader, I started my career exactly 10 years ago as a data analyst in healthcare. I loved every bit of it. The puzzle-solving. Digging into a messy dataset and slowly making sense of it. Writing code to clean and transform data exactly the way I needed. Building a visualisation and watching the story emerge. There was something deeply satisfying about that mechanical, hands-on part of the work. Because that's how I got to learn the skills. Today, AI can do much of it. Whether you're new...
10 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, I recently experimented with vision language models to analyze 5 years of my handwritten journal entries. Trust me, you're going to love this one 😉. Every 5 years or so, I feel the urge to reassess my life - figure out where I'm going and who I'm becoming. I've been journaling on a regular basis. Just with pen and paper, writing down what I'm thinking and what's happening. Then I had an idea. What if I scanned all those pages, used a vision model to extract the text, and then...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, In 2026, if you’re still manually exploring data by typing commands like df.isnull().sum(), you’re probably wasting your time. I used to be pretty skeptical about using AI for data analysis. It felt wrong somehow. Like you’d lose rigor. Or worse, you’d stop understanding your own data. But lately… something has shifted. The tools have gotten better. A lot better. And I’m starting to see a real tipping point in how data scientists actually work day-to-day. In this week’s...
25 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, AI has made expertise increasingly commoditized. For the last century or so, people were advised to learn one thing, be good at what you do, earn your craft through hard work, and you'll be fine. That playbook is breaking down. In the past few years, many traditional jobs are disappearing. More and more translators, front-end developers, designers... are no longer needed. I wouldn't be surprised if data analysts, data scientists, and other jobs that used to be the "sexy jobs" of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Data science jobs are evolving. In my 10 years working in data, I’ve never seen a shift this massive. 🤯 Expectations have changed: A recent study by Lightcast found that from May 2024 to May 2025, Data Scientist was the job title that most often referenced Generative AI (3,301 unique postings). Some of these postings talk about AI literacy - collaborating with AI tools, using copilots, experimenting with LLMs. But most of them are about building and deploying AI-driven systems....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, This post is a little bit of a rant. But I think I’m also having a small epiphany (or maybe an existential crisis). Hard to say. Either way, I hope it resonates. You can think of it as some food for thought. Or maybe garbish, but I wanted to share anyway. 🙂 I used to work as a data science consultant in the financial sector for about 6 years. I still vividly remember every Friday afternoon dreading one very specific thing: booking my timesheet. I’d log into the system, fill in...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, In 2016, I graduated with my master's degree. At the time, I only knew a bit of coding in R from working on my thesis. Yet even that modest skill was my major selling point I'd make sure to mention in every job interview! Fast forward to 2026: LLMs can now generate working Python code in seconds. It makes that situation from 10 years ago feel almost ancient. Honestly, it's a little embarassing how I felt like GOD knowing just some basic programming back then 🤣. AI is reshaping...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Hello Reader, How's 2026 started for you so far? Over the past year, I’ve seen a lot of people fall into the vibe-coding trap. I get it. You skip the fundamentals and jump straight into building things with AI. The problem is, AI tools generate 80% of a project really fast. It feels amazing. But then something breaks. Progress slows. You hit a wall. And that last 20% turns out to require way more understanding than you expected. You end up with impressive-looking code you can't fully explain,...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Just popping into your inbox to wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy 2026 💛 You know that feeling where you're convinced you did absolutely nothing all year... then you actually look back and go "wait, I did a bunch of stuff"? I kept telling myself I wasn't accomplishing anything for most of 2025. But when I finally sat down and wrote it out, here's what my year actually looked like: Travelled to Japan Made 14 YouTube videos (including 3 data science + AI tutorials and 2...
3 months ago • 2 min read