Solving men's mental health. People say that men don't want help with their mental health. We believe that is wrong. Men just don't like the existing solutions.

Nomination only fellowship followed by low-percent success rate application process. Previous fellows include founders of Notion, Lyft, Figma, etc.Understand influence and how to build deeper connection. Practice giving and getting feedback. LiT comes out of Stanford B-School.

Sometimes you also need to slow down so that you remember why and where it is you are rushing off too. https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time_off?language=en

Grew out the data-science and data engineering teams!

Growing out the team; Focused on data-engineering, ML models, experimentation and product analysis.

One of Calm's first 10 employees & founding data scientist/engineer. I arrived after a $5M revenue year and I scaled out the data organization, playing a critical role growing turning Calm into a $2+ Billion unicorn valuation. Had game changing impact. Part of a team of about 15 that won Apple's App of the Year 2017.https://medium.com/@michaelactonsmith/how-calm-became-the-worlds-first-mental-health-unicorn-short-version-3bec20a0efa1Focused on data-engineering, ML models, experimentation and product analysis.https://www.inc.com/video/turning-point/calm-ceo-on-how-a-surprising-data-point-inspired-the-company-success.html

Tried to get a non-profit startup off the ground.

adventure travel in the Congo (DRC); mountaineering (20k+ peaks) and silent meditation in remote monasteries in the Himalayas.

SUPERVISOR DATA SCIENTIST (February, 2016 - June, 2016)DATA SCIENTIST (March, 2014 - January, 2016)* Used expertise in experimental design, programming, statistics (frequentist & bayesian), and machine learning to help a variety of major companies (e.g., Yahoo, Audi, Intuit, Balsam Hill, etc.) get business value out of their data. * Extensive data engineering and warehouse projects* Notable project: Built an innovative and custom algorithm, based upon game theory (shapely values), as an multi-touch attribution model when no out-of-box algorithm was sufficient for needs. Still in use in 2023 AFAIK

Two-week capstone project was a SF Neighborhood Recommender - identifies off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods that are similar to well known ones. It was featured in Datascienceweekly.org and ranked #1 on DataTau.com and r/datascience. Recommended by CEO of Mode Analytics as example of an ideal bootcamp project (https://bit.ly/2ELjfJ9).

Used principals of gamification to turn personal scientific theory into an interactive prototype of a brain-training game

Published 15 total papers in top-tier scientific journals, including a first-author review paper in Psychological Bulletin (not easy to do is maybe an understatement). fMRI, genetic analysis, and behavioral research to understand causes of axis-1 mood disorders.Big data, advanced statistics, experimental design, and an acute understanding of human behavior, motivation, and psychology.