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A close mentor once told me that I have a bias towards action and I recently have a deeper understanding and realization of the layers upon this phrase. Looking at this phrase from the perspective of economics and management - because she is an successfuly executive with background in economics, statistics, and management - there are research supporting that leaders/authorities tend to be action-biased when during crisis in contrast to relative peacetime (Bar-Eli et al., 2007). This made me more comfortable as a crisis leader (“The Psychology Behind Effective Crisis Leadership,” n.d.). I read the quote “hope is the consequence of action” from former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s Substack post on his decision to not run for public office and getting to work in a different way. Some further research and contemplatio led me to the conclusion of “when lack hope, act; when have hope, double down and act” inferring the similar mindset of being action biased and that acting is not binary but a sliding scale. ...

Explanation why one is not able to use PyOData (from SAP) to query Seattle’s open data Here I demonstrate why trying to use PyOData library (from SAP) to query the Seattle open data’s OData endpoint is going to give you nightmares. The PyOData library seems to make the assumption that the XML atom title and href have the same value (which is the case with the Northwind example dataset), however, Seattle’s open data OData endpoint assigns a unique SODA identifier as the href and use the atom title to document the dataset name. ...