Thomas

"I want to stand in education, but I want to figure out how to make education different make it better."

"We're trying to develop insights to help have impact in the world to make the world better by helping innovation happen more successfully."

"It's a lot of having conversations and thinking about things and then trying to articulate those, shape those into written pieces that we can put out in the fields that we work in."

"being able to look at the things we study and figure out. Okay, what's really going on here from a systems level view? How does this system work?"

"We're wrestling with big problems that have impact in the world."

"In contrast, I found some of the hardest things in my professional life have been going into settings where it's like there isn't a Playbook."

"people don't get into education because they're wanting status or wealth...they get into education because they want to make a difference"

"Good General project management skills, like knowing how to say here's a bunch of stuff that needs to get done. How do I decide?"

"I wish that someone told me this job existed."

"positions for people that are pressed out of their undergrad will be under Tigers like titles like research assistant or research associate or research analyst"

"I wish I'd gone about it differently and said, let me just meet people that seem like they're going doing cool stuff. And then talk to them about okay. What you're doing seems cool. How did you get there?"

"when you really dig in on a passion, you're also...you're gonna say no, I'm not gonna invest in in other things."