Hi, I'm Susan, data scientist and writer. I write about career development, data science/ML, productivity, and more.
For ML jobs content, I write on susanshu.substack.com and my book, Machine Learning Interviews published by O'Reilly.
Why choose a career in tech? Earlier origins (Conference panel)
The past weekend I was part of a panel at GITCon (organized by UTS, University of Toronto schools), where I answered questions about my career in tech to an audience of middle school students.
Here are the panel questions and my advice in response to them, which I hope can help people interested in a career in tech, or folks already in tech who can be mildly amused by earlier origin stories.
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Advice for self-learning game development
Three tips that I wish that I had known when I started self-learning game development.
Why I reduced calendar block times, and increased unstructured time
I write a lot about productivity, so when I started to complete things ahead of schedule, it freed up some time. Here's why I didn't allocate the newfound time back to something 'productive'.
How writing regularly has helped me
Writing has boosted my data science career and game development hobby. It allows me to gain more visibility with stakeholders, help readers, and share my ideas with the world.
Build a career in data science (Conference talk)
The story of how I went from not knowing about the field of data science while studying economics, to founding a video game studio, to data science, and the approaches that worked for me.
Why I chose data science over game dev for my first full-time role
Retrospective on how I chose data science over game development for my first role.
My impostor syndrome stories, and lessons I learned
Here are 2 personal stories of impostor syndrome and how I learned to manage it. Many high achieving individuals still experience massive amounts of impostor syndrome.
How to Live with Chronic Impostor Syndrome (Guest post by Eugene Yan)
Even high achieving individuals experience massive amounts of impostor syndrome. This post is about practical ways to manage it.
Scary decisions and how to handle them
Identifying “no by default” - reactions to scary decisions, and practical thoughts on making scary, big decisions.
How I brainstorm and write a blog post a week - 3 steps to fuel and create
My 3-step process to write weekly blog posts, and never run out of ideas. I git-back my writing.