{"id":27412,"date":"2013-10-11T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=27412"},"modified":"2015-04-06T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:34:30","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-bryan-balin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-personalities-meet-bryan-balin\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Bryan Balin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bryan
Bryan Balin, UncommonGoods Data Scientist<\/center><\/div>\n

My home town is\u2026<\/strong>
\nRiverside, IL<\/p>\n

I\u2019m inspired by\u2026 <\/strong>
\nPeople who go against the grain, and have pride and gusto in doing it (hopefully, they\u2019re vindicated at some point\u2026). I\u2019m a big fan of Larry David and Winston Churchill, both of which have\/had the gusto (and some say, chutzpah) to be themselves, even if it sometimes raised a few eyebrows. And, they both enjoy wearing silly hats in public. Which is cool.<\/p>\n

My favorite food of all time is… <\/strong>
\nMy Grandma\u2019s Rocky Road pie. It\u2019s totally manufactured, with high fructose corn syrup and plenty of Cool Whip, but it\u2019s soooo good.<\/p>\n

Within the next 10 years, I hope to… <\/strong>
\nBuy a condo! I\u2019m sick of this whole \u201cmy New York City rent could pay for an entire palace in France\u201d deal.<\/p>\n

My guilty pleasure is… <\/strong>
\nWatching Scooby Doo.<\/p>\n

My most humbling experience was… <\/strong>
\nMy first week of college. In high school, I was at the top of my class, but when I started at Johns Hopkins I wasn’t. It really taught me that you can\u2019t just assume success because you are smart, because there are plenty of other smart people out there. Your drive, personality, collaborative skills, and values help define success as much as your raw intelligence.<\/p>\n

An uncommon fact about me\u2026 <\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been married three times, all to the same person! No, I\u2019m no male version of Liz Taylor; I got married in Bulgaria this summer, where you have a religious and civil ceremony, and then in the U.S., because New York didn\u2019t recognize my marriage.<\/p>\n

Would you rather…Have a whole year to do nothing but read OR start a successful company that employed hundreds of people and produced worthwhile and helpful things for the world, but left you no time to read, ever?<\/strong>
\nDepends on what you mean by \u201cread.\u201d If it\u2019s \u201cread novels,\u201d then it\u2019s easy\u2014I\u2019d start the company! I can tear through academic papers or the Economist, but I haven\u2019t read a novel from start to finish in years. If it\u2019s \u201cread interesting things\u201d\u2026 I\u2019d still start the company. Hopefully it\u2019s a text-to-speech company, so the software can do the reading for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Business & Analytics associate Bryan knows his numbers. He also knows a lot about pop culture and has been married 3 times…to the same person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36047,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions\/36047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}