Russell Pollari

@russ_poll

CTO - ISA mentorships for Data Scientists / Blogging about habits, startups, and AI

Joined December 2017

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Jul 2019

    I call myself a self-taught programmer, but in reality, I had thousands of teachers. Shoutout to all the bloggers, OSS developers, stack overflow users, MOOC creators, and everyone else who shares their knowledge on the internet to help folks like me. I owe my career to you.

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    To be fair, this was a super helpful error message. Thanks !

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    Jan 28
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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Canadian developers don’t fix errors. They fix eh-rors

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  5. Jan 31

    Highly recommend. Shape Up really helped us level up our decision making process

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  6. Jan 31

    To be fair, this was a super helpful error message. Thanks !

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  7. Jan 31

    Using APIs as a Canadian: Invalid request: Received unknown parameter: end_behaviour. Did you mean end_behavior?

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  8. Jan 31

    5/ Giving the mentor skin in the game through an ISA also helps to encourage more meaningful interactions and reduces the churn that many informal mentorships succumb to.

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  9. Jan 31

    4/ Part of the value of is formalizing that interaction and reducing the awkwardness. Giving mentees/mentors without a pre-existing network a chance at finding a mentor or mentee.

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  10. Jan 31

    3/ But it's very awkward to ask for that kind of support. It's also very awkward to offer and maintain that kind of support. Informal mentorship is great when it happens, but not everyone has the network and the social courage to ask.

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  11. Jan 31

    2/ This shouldn't be too surprising. Finding your first job or switching careers can be one of the most stressful parts of your life. Having someone experienced to support you through that journey goes a long way.

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  12. Jan 31

    1/ Something I hear from many of our mentors and mentees (and my experience mentoring supports this) is that a lot of the value that our mentors provide is emotional support.

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  13. Jan 30

    The fastest way to learn something is to have skin in the game. One wat to do this is getting a job outside your comfort zone (or joining a startup). Learn or fail. Learning by teaching is also effective since you risk reputational cost if you don't understand the material.

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  14. Jan 29

    Don't sleep on this workshop led by on privacy-preserving ML, a topic of increasing importance in today's world

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Who wrote this terrible code?? Oh, it was me... 7 months ago

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    Jan 28

    please share: I'm looking to hire a part time community builder/ social media guru for aggregate intellect. The role involves event management and social media promotion of our content and events. please let me know if you are interested or have any leads

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  18. Jan 28

    Who wrote this terrible code?? Oh, it was me... 7 months ago

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  19. Jan 28

    Something to strive for with your org's analytics is to make it as easy as possible to ask new questions. We recently started using , which has leveled up our analytics game.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 27

    Today, big news: for the first time ever, is hiring. 🚀 This is a huge step for us - but it's also a major milestone for the ISA industry. See why below. 👇 Please share and apply - and comment if you have questions!

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    Jan 25

    So grateful to be embedded in a community of people that are passionate about continuous learning and knowledge sharing that has evolved around

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