“Richard Bakare”

NordicTrack X22i Review

2 Jul , 2020 IronMan,Lifestyle,Reviews,Sports,Technology

NordicTrack X22i Review

Fast forward to 2020, engrossed in a pandemic. Throw in the cruel Georgia heat, hills & humidity. Along with an overarching need to get maximum efficiency out of our training time. Add all those together and you can see how ended up canceling our gym membership and purchasing a NordicTrack X22i Incline Trainer Treadmill. It took months of research, product comparison, and deliberating for us to land on this one. This was no small purchase, so I am sharing this review in hopes that it helps you make your own decision.

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General Assembly – Data Science Remote Course

15 Jun , 2020 Lifestyle,Reviews

General Assembly – Data Science Remote Course

I recently completed a Data Science course via General Assembly (GA). In that course, I learned all of the requisite skills to get started down a path in Data Science, be it for individual curiosity, career pursuits, or both. We were taught the techniques and the tools for everything from data gathering, to cleansing, model selection, feature tuning, and much more. I am grateful for that course and the baseline knowledge that GA gave me in Data Science. I wanted to pursue this course because too many models and algorithms are being created as black boxes with no transparency and lack the needed inclusion of minority voices in their design and feedback. I touch on the need for wide array of voices participating in Data Science in a panel I participated in at the Women Who Code CONNECT Conference.

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90-Days of Fender Play

29 May , 2020 Culture,Life Hack,Lifestyle

90-Days of Fender Play

Sharing a short post that demonstrates some of the techniques and styles I learned after 90-days of practicing with Fender Play. Please forgive the audio quality. I don’t have a proper amp, and attempted to record through GarageBand & QuickTime without adjusting the tuning. Also, keep in mind, I am a lazy musician and started from scratch.

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Nike Zoom Pegasus Turbo 2 Review

15 May , 2020 Lifestyle,Reviews,Sports

Nike Zoom Pegasus Turbo 2 Review

I said in an earlier review of the first version of this shoe, that the Zoom Pegasus Turbo may be the best shoe I have ever owned. That feeling has now been cemented. The exhaustive Research & Development that Nike puts into its products really shines in this release. Everything about this shoe is better than the previous release. I was really looking forward to running in these when spring rolled around. Then the world was told to stay indoors. To be fair, you could still go for runs in a generally safe manner; but, my overly cautious self kept my running to indoors. We actually got a treadmill to make it easy to maintain a fitness routine. I will have a review of that equipment in another post.

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Hobbies to Habits to Skills

30 Apr , 2020 Culture,Life Hack,Lifestyle

Hobbies to Habits to Skills

A formal education is great. but it is not the only way to learn. So long as you can read and digest information, you can learn. So read what you are interested in and let those topics organically lead you from one subject to another. You will learn naturally without pressure to keep up with a curriculum. This approach is known as Interest Based Learning. Many home schoolers are familiar with this style of learning but it is atypical for all other styles of formal education. I wasn’t home schooled, but can see how this environment is great for picking up and diving deeper into new subjects.

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BOSS Uncaged Podcast Episode

14 Apr , 2020 Culture,Lifestyle,Minimalism

BOSS Uncaged Podcast Episode

In each episode [of BOSS Uncaged], Guests come from a wide range of backgrounds and share diverse business insights. Learn how to release your primal success through the words of wisdom from inspirational entrepreneurs and industry experts. As they depict who they are, how they juggle their work-life with family life, their successful habits, business expertise, tools, and tips of their trade.

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Brazil – Belo Horizonte

28 Mar , 2020 Culture,Lifestyle,Travel

Brazil – Belo Horizonte

Brazil fills you with a type of lachrymose energy at the sheer awe and beauty of the world. A collective of millions breathing, moving, and prattling in densely packed cities flowing all around you but not suffocating. Not like New York, where everything is on top of you all at once. The experience here is like being in the water, a school of fish creating a cyclone of swimming bodies around your floating one, but none of it touching you at the same time. A wonderful cacophony of sounds, smells, colors, and vistas.

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The Context Variable

7 Mar , 2020 Culture,Lifestyle

The Context Variable

Gradients of Difference are at the core of learning and communication. I am older than you, I know more, I have seen more, I look different, I speak differently, or I think differently. Every interaction with someone else, familiar or unfamiliar, involves some level of difference that fuels the transfer of information from one person to another. Context is the equalizing medium, that pushes our dissimilarities to the background and pulls a peaceful conversation to the front. Without context, misunderstandings brew and a productive discussion becomes a pointless debate.

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North Georgia Wine Trail

22 Feb , 2020 Culture,Lifestyle,Travel

North Georgia Wine Trail

This is a scene, a peaceful start to the day, that can be drawn as the backdrop of many regions from the east coast to the west. This particular visage is of the lower Blue Ridge area just north of Dahlonega. We stayed in a setting just like this recently. A quick reset to take advantage of a holiday weekend. Just over an hour’s drive from Atlanta and relatively inexpensive. Our expectations were not high and we had not been back to the area in nearly a decade.

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