Harvard graduate Ed Baker co-founded and managed Friend.ly, a social Q&A site that was later acquired by Facebook. Between 2013 and 2017, Ed Baker served as the vice president of growth at Uber, where he led a team of more than 500 on rider and driver acquisition. In his free time, Ed Baker enjoys playing the piano.
For some people, playing the piano is a stress reduction activity that helps them take their minds off the problems in their daily lives. However, a number of studies show that playing the piano can be beneficial in language skills.
A study published in the journal Psychology of Music has concluded that children who have had several years of musical training showed better reading skills than their non-musically trained peers. The study asserts that this association is mainly due to the overlapping of neural networks in the brain where musical and language behaviors are found.
A study conducted in Milan, Italy, has uncovered an association between early childhood musical training and the breadth of a person’s vocabulary. The study also noted that those with early childhood musical training could acquire foreign languages at a much quicker pace. In addition to English, Ed Baker speaks Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
