2020 Retrospective: New Country, New Role, New Habit

Eugene Yan · 5 years ago

Eugene Yan published a 2020 retrospective covering his move to Amazon in Seattle to build recommender and machine learning systems and his commitment to writing weekly, resulting in 55 posts. His blog generated 260,000 page views in 2020, with major traffic spikes from Hacker News articles about his data science journey and note-taking methods. His writing, email list of thousands, and curated GitHub repositories on ML papers gained significant audience engagement through social media and professional mailing lists.