November 2019

Leading vs. lagging indicators in business and in life

Nov 12, 2019

productivity, startups

business, habit tracking, habits, startups

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it,” is common business wisdom. It is especially important advice for startups searching for product/market fit via the build-measure-learn feedback loop, a major part of the Lean Startup ethos. Build something. Measure its effect. Learn what worked, what didn’t. Repeat. The ability to execute this loop quickly…
Deploying your ML model with Flask and Heroku

Nov 9, 2019

data science, programming

heroku, machine learning, python, tutorial

I gave a tutorial to the SharpestMinds community this week on Flask and Heroku that proved useful. So I edited it and uploaded it. I essentially live code a basic web app from scratch to host an image classifier. It is scrappy and cuts a few corners, but the result is a working MVP. I…