Before I attended Tuesday’s VLAB event on data exhaust, I had never set foot on the Stanford campus. A proud Berkeley grad, its manicured lawns and clean sidewalks and in-tact buildings had always just seemed wrong to me—learning should be dirty and difficult!

Hello! My name is Adam, and I recently joined Peerset’s corporate development team. I’ve just moved back to sunny California after a three-year sojourn on the frigid east coast and a three month hike across the Iberian Peninsula. My bones have finally thawed, my blisters have healed, and my mind is ready to tackle the science of human interest.