A while back there was a show called “The Booth at the End”. The premise of the show is that there is a man who sits in a booth at a diner who can grant you anything you want if you complete the tasks that he requires. The show is about what people want, why they want it, what they’ll do to get it, and what they discover about themselves and what they truly want after attempting to complete their task.
I realized from watching this show that as a data scientist I often feel like this man in the booth. People come to me asking for something, and I often spend a lot of time deciphering with them what they really want and why they want it. I then offer them a task, sometimes a difficult one, that makes them question how badly they really wanted what they asked for. Like the man in the booth, it’s not really up to me whether they get what they want—my job is simply to make the choices clear.
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