All the Cool Girls

Is Curiosity the New Success?: Charity Weeden | All The Cool Girls

All the Cool Girls

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Charity Weeden on getting fired from NASA, letting go of the career ladder, and why following her curiosity led her from space policy to AI and an entirely new definition of success.

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