What I'm Focused on Now

Last updated: September 15, 2018

Doing

Building, advising, community involvement

• Building and raising a seed round for Trustream
• Helping other tech founders with strategy, sales, and business development
• Advising Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s Project Music 2018 cohort
• Community events, including Nashville Music Hackathon and ProductCamp Nashville

Learning

Data science, application prototyping

• To develop a deeper understanding of data science and freshen up my coding chops, I’ll complete DataCamp’s Data Scientist with Python career track by end of August September.
• To get better at leading our product development, I’m digging into application prototyping/mockup tools. After evaluating half a dozen, I’ve landed on Balsamiq for quick and dirty and Sketch for polish.

Reading

Music business, AI, mind-expanding science fiction

• The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing
• Anything for a Hit: An A Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• The Punch Escrow

Listening

Startups, emerging tech, media, science, personal growth

• a16z
• If Then
• Recode Media
• After On Podcast
• The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Practicing

Mindfulness, gratitude, improving strength and energy

• Daily, guided meditation with 10% Happier
• Journaling with a focus on gratitude
• 2x per day by 3x weekly HIIT workouts with Zova the “official” 7 minute workout app
• Biking and hiking around Nashville when it’s less than 90 degrees

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