PhD at Carnegie Mellon University investigating accessibility and data interaction. Previously: data interaction R&D at Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa, + others.| Frank Elavsky
How should I decide what I do after my Ph.D: soul-sucking industry work that pays sicko money, or scraping by as a postdoc until I’m lucky enough to land some kind of magical position in academia?| Frank Elavsky
Nobody who is a good person who also dislikes AI wants to hear this: Refusal and resistance are necessary, but if we don’t have power, we will probably lose. We need to resist and refuse while we still have a place at the table. And if we don’t have a place at the table, we need to invite ourselves to it.| Frank Elavsky
The more I think about myself and why I do the things I do, the more I recognize that I love systems with depth. I love systems specifically that enable possibilities through constraints. This is partially why I like numbers or visualizing data, but more to do with why I love games and tool-making.| Frank Elavsky