I flew a red-eye coach non-stop from Seattle to Boston. The timing is very convenient because I was able to work all day Monday, have dinner with the family, then head to the airport. However coach seating, pressed up against strangers is not the most amenable place to sleep.
The 737-300 had a “Russell Wilson, chief football officer” paint scheme
I snapped some shots of the sunrise over Boston during landing
Boston Logan Airport is a big, inconvenient, slow-moving, inefficient airport with bad signage and poor facilities.
The polar vortex was in full-swing. Outside temperatures where 19 degrees F (-7 C).
After dinner I attended a fun talk at MIT by eBay’s Hunch CTO Matt Gattis. It was relatively well-attended and I met some great summer intern prospects.
Matt spoke about the Hunch taste graph and the team’s journey from Python to C, to assembler and then on to mobile applications as they coded their real-time machine-learning system.
The next day I interviewed a bunch of candidates at PayPal’s new Boston office at 1 International Center. It is a gorgeous facility with a beautiful indoor fountain that drops water down from the ceiling of a big atrium in the central lobby.
View from inside the office out over the Charles river. There is another view of the harbor on the other side.
There is a “Tom Brady” conference room.
The summer intern candidates were young, inexperienced, bright, motivated, facile at code, very deep in python idioms and libraries, and fun to interview. I am hoping we can grab a bunch of them this summer.
Instead of staying at an expensive hotel, I saved my company some money and crashed at my sister’s house near-by, where we celebrated her birthday.
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