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In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and talk about: * Moneyball and the new world of big data and baseball * How to merge gut feel based on experience with quantitative analysis * Parlaying an early love of baseball into a paid gig * The draw of building a team from scratch * Kendall being incredibly nerdsniped :) * Starting out as a tech lead * Putting the R in R&D * How baseball players respond to data-driven insights * Baseball engineering org structure * The particular difficulty of remote leadership * Adjusting priorities and developing process to compensate for team needs * Ensuring engineers interact respectfully with non-technical subject matter experts * Seeing his past self in his employees * Watching games to validate data models * Turning his job into a hobby and his hobby into a job You can find Dan on Twitter at @dturkenk and on LinkedIn :) Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music