I’m an insightful and perceptive PhD quant
When I worked in Big4 financial due diligence, like everyone I used to attach huge clunky spreadsheets and powerpoints to email to clients.
I suspected this was an inefficient way to work, so I left.
I wanted a more rigorous approach to information and to working with and for human knowledge.
Actually… I also had an ethical problem with just working to make shareholders richer. There has to be a better way, working for human knowledge and meaning!
I found that in academia.
But there the focus is on evermore specialised pieces of work. You always have to find something new! And a lot of our research was for the sake of finding out. I love that, and I love the freedom and autonomy of academia, but I started to feel a real drive to make something useful, something general and applied.
So I’ve taken those research topics and computing skills now I’m on a mission to make them useful to YOU!