so this is how we go not with a bang not with a whimper either there's gonna be a lot of fun
announcements in this video especially a live stream with kenji that's coming up in the next
couple of days i really hope that you stay tuned for that as well as a brand new 2021 data science
bible that's also going to come out in the next couple of days if we had not had a chance to
talk yet my name is andrew it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance and i'm a mentor i'm a
mentor here in silicon valley and it's been the greatest pleasure of my few years that i've had
on earth so far being able to bring people through the data science journey now when a mentee goes
through the entire process it feels like they've grown up i feel incredibly proud of every mentee
no matter what they've been able to accomplish but the ones that are able to go and get the job
that we both agreed that they are qualified for the dream job that they really wanted to get
through this mentorship those are the ones that are meaningful in a special way it means that
the process works i'm a mentor through sharpest minds but i'm also a mentor in my own right and i
wanted to bring back my very first my number one patron on patreon francisco because part of our
conversation i left out of our original broadcast our original talk that i've uploaded earlier
you see this broadcast is going to be specifically about whether or not mentorships are worth it
and now that i've had a lot of time to reflect on it i want me from the past to speak about it first
so that i can hopefully hold your attention until the end of the video and then tell you
about what i think about it now so i'll see you there strap in and thanks for watching
how beneficial would one of these like sharpest mind mentorships be um i was i was gonna ask you
about it before but someone actually reached out to me on sharpest minds like two days ago
um and uh when i mentioned it when i mentioned it to my wife and i mentioned it to one of my
buddies is also trying to break into data science they're like oh but you have to pay for it and i'm
like yeah but it's an investment and they're like well you already invested in your degree and it
hasn't paid off yet and i'm like yeah but this is this is like doubling down and like with more of
a guarantee yeah because this person doesn't get paid unless i get a job and they're going to make
sure that i get a good job not some like 50 000 a year job they're going to want me to get a good
job yeah so i've never been mentored by any other mentor on sharper's minds so i can't speak to the
efficacy of another mentor but i will say that what they do for you is just a faster version of
what you can do for yourself okay kind of like your masters right and i'm speaking completely
like honest here to the extent that like sharpest minds helps you i think the biggest value add is
that they can refer you with their connection okay and then that pushes your resume to the very top
of each of the lists and at the very least it makes it so that you don't get auto rejected
um for certain companies right you never know how much of a network a mentor actually has
um unless you like really scour into their linkedin um but the uh the idea is a mentor
is going to set you up on a project uh and the project is going to be uh
a little bit of what you want to do a little bit of what they already prepared to walk you through
and then the mentor is going to try to prepare you for the interviews which is something that
i have a lot more passion on because i like uh i like picking people's brains on how they approach
problems i also like just asking the interview questions and helping them expect the unexpected
because you don't know what you don't know but all of that can be done by watching youtube videos
um the projects are youtube videos the um and the the final uh languages that you should be
able to expect uh just requires a call like this one where you just ask me and then i just tell you
right so at the end of the day the main value that i'm providing as a mentor are deadlines
is that if you don't if you don't conform to this deadline then there's a person on the other side
that's going to be like disappointed at you which is the same if you think about it as a master's
degree uh only that the only difference is that a mentor is cheaper uh a mentor is more flexible
and a mentor is going to teach you only the things you need to know to get the job that he got
and a master's degree is always going to teach the same junk because that's the way that
the professors think you get a job but they're professors they're not even data scientists
yeah so that's the main idea people get masters to get a job almost nobody gets
a master's because they think learning is fun but it is a it is an investment in bad faith because
a master's degree only puts you in the country club of other people who have master's degrees
not the actual skills because the professors aren't data scientists they're professors
it's funny that you say that because um towards the end of my program i was
i started getting a little bit upset because of that because i as i was doing research trying
to find jobs i'm like everyone is saying you know publish stuff make sure you're out there
and i'm like at no point have they said that in my program that i should be posting some of my
projects or or just like blogging or anything like that and it's actually one of the things i
mentioned on on the on the way out i'm like you guys need to have some kind of class where like
um the deliverable at the end is that your project is posted on one of these blogs yeah
because that's actually what you need to do until my understanding of what you need to do until you
get a job is just like put yourself out there and at no point did anyone mention it or anything in
the program i had to find that out on my own afterwards and and i know you know no one's
holding your hand in the master's program but that should at least be mentioned i think there
was a peer of mine in my mentors in my master's program that was blogging by himself and at the
end of the day i was like oh my god why haven't i been doing this because i actually learned a ton
from his blog that i didn't learn from my masters so i was like yeah i wish this was a thing i wish
people were told to do this because i don't know why he started doing it he must have had
an extra class or something that someone like you on the way out told the professor to take
wow all right no i think i think there's a lot of value in just having someone there uh
with the mentorship thing with having someone there to like as your deadline because i think
especially now with every with most people being home uh with covet it's kind of easy to slack off
um like i i use a lot of white boards i have them all over the place um in in the room that
we converted into an office and you know some of those things i haven't i haven't gotten to them
because everything changed now i really hope that you like that i really hope that you had a chance
to have that sink in to have the thoughts that uh came from the top of my mind right this was a live
zoom chat with my patron i really think that a lot of the topics that we covered
were a hundred percent what i wanted to evoke of the mentorship process it's not for everyone
in fact a lot of people equated to courses like a tech interview pro or whatever it's called with
tech lead and joma's new course which is only eight dollars a month it's pretty darn worth
it if you can learn by yourself if you don't need that hand that pushes you in the right direction
you don't need to spend thousands of dollars on the course but hopefully i'm going to
start creating courses and creating educational material with the help of a couple of people who
have a larger network than me and with the help of mentors like kenji i'm going to start creating
educational resources that are going to knock your socks off in 2021 i hope to continue educating
entertaining and staying a part of your metaverse of the persona of data science of entertainment
and of youtube nation overall there's gonna be a lot of fun announcements in this video especially
a live stream with kenji that's coming up in the next couple of days i really hope that you stay
tuned for that as well as a brand new 2021 data science bible that's also going to come out in
the next couple of days if you can set your clocks to make sure that you don't miss out
how about this i'll continue to make daily content for you in the month of january and continuing
that 30-day challenge a post-mortem about the 30-day challenge i thought it was going to be
really hard i thought it was going to be draining that i was going to reach my wit's end with the
help of shorts and with the help of my best friend helping me edit a bulk of these videos
i honestly couldn't have done it without him i'm the one who edited this video that you're watching
but almost all the videos that you saw this month has been in part edited by my good friend hector
elizondo that's the reason why he is in the credits of each of these videos and why i hope
you consider supporting your local andrew from data leap if you can do that if you can support
me for 2021 i promise to continue sending out the very best content for you entirely free
and for now but not for forever i really hope you guys have an amazing end to this
albeit very bad year and a better start to the next one for now but not for forever
peace you