Happiness, wealth, knowledge, status? We’re always optimising for something, usually prescribed to us by the society we’re raised in. We work and work, trying to reach some externally-set benchmark to deem ourselves successful or failing this, failures.

What if we took control and optimised for goals that align with our own personal values? How would that shape our day-to-day lives and the world we live in?

This is my early-career journey from Science-for-Curiosity to Data-Science-for-Good that led me to work with Palindrome Data in summer 2019.