Short-form video consumption through platforms like YouTube Shorts is typically a passive experience in today’s landscape. A more user-directed experience could benefit viewers. — YouTube Shorts emerged in the early 2020’s as Google’s answer to shortform video consumption platforms TikTok and Instagram Reels. As short-form video content grew in popularity, YouTube found its own way to capture a piece of the market, albeit with an even more consumption focused and less prosocial product than…

Georgia Tech’s Online Masters in Analytics (OMSA) program is a top choice for professionals looking to advance their knowledge in the field of analytics. As a current student in the program, I can attest to the quality and rigor of the courses offered. In my first semester, I had the…

2022 was a big year for consumer-use generative AI with software like Lensa and Midjourney capturing the public’s attention. The year closed off with the release of Open AIs own ChatGPT, a generative chatbot which — in some ways — acts like a focused Google Search. While some media and…

We have different tastes and there’s an anime for (almost) all of them. — So you’re looking to watch your first ‘anime’. Maybe you’re curious about the entertainment medium Gen-Z can’t get enough of, or just seeking something a little different from what you’re used to. The animated form has conveyed stories on screens around the world for decades. Despite a recent Western surge…

At the end of 2021, I left my previous job without another one secured. Here are a few things I learned and what I’d do differently. — Between my current role at a Data Healthcare startup and my previous one at an e-commerce startup, I took a sizeable break, roughly four months to be exact. In November of 2021, I’d just left my job — like many across the US — as part of what is now…

While traditional education in the US has continued to thrive, changes are occurring to better meet system demands. — While in some parts of the world, higher education is intended to develop citizens — as evidenced by taxpayer subsidized universities — , within the United States, higher education is viewed as an individual’s investment in their career, not a social good with civic benefits. As such, rather than subsidize…

I didn’t expect to remember much from the Economics courses I took in university when I started my first job in a completely unrelated…

You’ve probably heard some variation of the following phrase: “hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” History is filled with philosophers, writers, psychologists, and other spectators theorizing about the cyclical nature of mankind’s triumphs and turmoils…

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.