Show notes
In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and talk about:
- Moneyball and the new world of big data and baseball
- How to merge gut feel based on experience with quantitative analysis
- Parlaying an early love of baseball into a paid gig
- The draw of building a team from scratch
- Kendall being incredibly nerdsniped :)
- Starting out as a tech lead
- Putting the R in R&D
- How baseball players respond to data-driven insights
- Baseball engineering org structure
- The particular difficulty of remote leadership
- Adjusting priorities and developing process to compensate for team needs
- Ensuring engineers interact respectfully with non-technical subject matter experts
- Seeing his past self in his employees
- Watching games to validate data models
- Turning his job into a hobby and his hobby into a job
You can find Dan on Twitter at @dturkenk and on LinkedIn :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3