Yesterday was my last day of working at Google. Perhaps this comes as surprise to you twitter folks, as I haven't widely announced that I left academia to try something new. Here's what I learned in 9 months as a Data Analyst who (temporarily) left Astronomy for Big Tech. 1/n 1) As an academic, you bring great skills into the tech world. E.g. agility, i.e. the skill to jump into something new and get things done when the situation is ambiguous is highly valued. Even if academics are not aware of it, their daily job trains them for this. 2/n

So, actually I met two daughters, Franziska (left) and Margrit (right) Zwicky, at the Fritz Zwicky exhibition in Mollis, Fritz Zwicky's hometown (a lot of mentioning Zwicky in one sentence, I know, Zwicky would approve).

https://twitter.com/malcfairbairn/status/1188213165466759170

Some of the topics we discussed about was the beef between Zwicky and Sandage. Coming from the PhD lineage of Sandage, I know some nasty stories, so I wonder how the "other side" perceived it. However, Zwicky never talked about these issues in front of his daughters.