Kyle Fring

Now

Life

Most mornings I sweat at Crux, an incredible gym with a great community. Progress there has been a massive solace through the second half of Covid-19's 2020. I'm able to get outdoors on the weekends and go hard.

I've made several good friends since moving here and that's ultra rewarding. Content. Life is good.

Work

I'm fortunate to be able to work remotely as a Program Director for a Fortune 500 managed care provider. I lead cross-functional initiatives bridging data engineering, analytics, and business strategy. It's rewarding work that impacts tens of thousands of co-workers and many millions of members.

Previously as a Senior Data Analyst/Engineer, I designed data pipelines, built value-based contracting datasets, and led pharmacy data lake migrations. The deep dive into healthcare data-sets—becoming responsible for the single source of truth—was both challenging and engaging.

Future

• I'd like to use different tools. Microsoft is fine, Teams & PowerBI are very good, but in my heart I'm a FOSS guy: Terminals, Python, R, etc. are more interesting to me.
• I do appriciate the modern need for specialization. However, I'd like to flex a life-time of wearing many hats.
• A good deal more flexibility with working hours. I always deliver. Don't make me sit at a desk just because I need to not be afk. Life is way too short.

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Elsewhere

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Bookshelf

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 prior

2020

• Discrete Mathematics and it's Applications
• Python3 The Hard Way
• Unwanted
• The Book of Joy
• Let's pretend this never happened
• The Personality Brokers
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
• Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
• I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

2019

• Gang Leader for a Day
• Re:Work
• The Crossing
• Cities of the Plain
• All the Pretty Horses
• The Idiot

2018

• Man's Search for Meaning
• Snowcrash
• Codependent No More
• Ask Polly's Guide To Your Next Crisis
• Getting The Love You Want
• Tribe of Mentors
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Sapiens
• A Brief History of Time
• Kitchen Confidential
• Devil in the Kitchen
• Manhood

2017

• The Simple Path to Wealth
• Early Retirement Extreme
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Aesop’s Fables
• Ulysses
• How to Speak and Write Correctly
• Popular Tales from the Norse
• Complete Works of David Hume (selections)
• The Greatest Generation
• Don Quixote
• The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Collection
• The Wisdom of Insecurity
• The 4-Hour Body
• The Little Book that Beats the Market
• A Book of Five Rings
• Meditations
• Designing Your Life
• The New Better Off
• Your Money or Your Life
• The Magic of Thinking BIG
• City in the City

2016

• Still Life with Woodpecker
• Media Control
• Practical Lock Picking
• The Rings of Saturn
• The Economist Guide to Financial Markets
• Gratitude
• Cryptonomicon
• The Name of the Wind
• The Wise Man's Fear
• Power Systems
• How to Archer
• The Joy of x
• Ready Player One
• The Road to Character
• Berkshire Hathaway Letters

2015

• 1Q84
• The Swarm
• 4 Hour Work Week

Prior

• The Watchmen
• Evidence
• The White Tiger
• Collapse: How Societies Chose to Fail or Succeed
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• The Prince
• Sphere
• Out of the Silent Planet
• Perelandra
• That Hideous Strength
• Redwall
• Mossflower
• Mattimeo
• Martin the Warrior
• Salamandastron
• Mariel of Redwall
• The Bellmaker
• Outcast of Redwall
• Pearls of Lutra
• The Long Patrol
• Inferno
• The Book of Three
• The Black Cauldron
• Taran Wanderer
• The Castle of Llyr
• The High King
• The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
• A Game of Thrones
• A Clash of Kings
• A Storm of Swords
• A Feast for Crows
• A Dance with Dragons
• The Flight of the Silvers
• Dune
• Dune Messiah
• Children of Dune
• The Gunslinger
• The Drawing of the Three
• The Waste Lands
• Wizard and Glass
• Wolves of the Calla
• Song of Susannah
• The Dark Tower
• American Gods
• Ender’s Game
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The New American Road Trip Mixtape
• Self-Coached Climber
• Shantaram
• The One-Straw Revolution
• The China Study
• The Hobbit
• Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• Return of the King
• This is Water
• 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes
• Great Expectations
• The Communist Manifesto
• Ethics
• The Odyssey
• Dracula
• The Hedge Knight
• Flow
• Foundation
• Hyperion
• The Fall of Hyperion
• Endymion
• The Rise of Endymion
• The History of Herodotus
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• A Picture of Dorian Gray
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• The Art of War
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Albums

Soon™

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Epilogue

Previous iterations: v1

Credit to this guy for inspiring me to get this up with minimal fuss.

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