Incoming delayed review. I went to Saga, the fine dining restaurant perched on the 63rd floor of 70 Pine Street in the financial district, late last summer. Sitting outside on a terrace overlooking the hudson, the dinner view was one of the best I’ve ever had. The food was very good, but just very good….
My friend Tony and I sat at chef’s counter at corima and indulged in their tasting menu, which was incredibly reasonable for a michelin star place. Each dish was a mixed inspiration of northern Mexican and asian. Our waiter told me the chef sources a lot from neighboring China town, and spent time cooking in…
I found him floating in the pool out back, in that sunny backyard he loved so much. It’s taken me two months to write that. It still sounds as surreal to me as the day it happened in late January. For 17 years, he was my best friend. I knew he was getting to the…
What is a Clean Room? “Clean room” has become a buzzword these past few years, yet I still run into a lot of confusion from people on the subject. At a basic level, clean rooms enable the privacy safe comingling of 1st and 3rd party data. They achieve this by masking both data sets behind…
The past six months have been a whirlwind of change. My parents followed my brother and his family down to Raleigh last Fall, uprooting the last “anchor” I had in Baltimore. (Some of my best friends are still there.) My job changed pretty dramatically, pivoting me from ad tech architecture into larger data strategy. But…
AI is the new buzzword. AI is going to do everything, like some magical elf running around behind the curtain automating replicating human critical thought. But AI is only as powerful as the data it has access to. Growing up, my father used to say, “a half-truth is a lie.” It’s a lesson I never…