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Christian Minich

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Dad, data, process, philosophy | Sales Eng @dagster | My wife says my headstone will read “sorry I’m late”

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · Nov 7

Data people starter packs, parts 1 and 2. Gotta follow them all!

go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK

go.bsky.app/DsDyXF3

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome! Really well thought out and useful

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 1d

We've open sourced QuackStore - a block-based caching extension for DuckDB! 🦆

QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need.

Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...

GitHub - coginiti-dev/QuackStore

Contribute to coginiti-dev/QuackStore development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 1d

“Look for yes. It’s almost always there.”

Matches my experience, and why good communication is so important, especially at the intersection of different teams

boz.com/articles/loo...

Look For Yes

the conflict between groups tasked with managing risk and those tasked with making progress is legendary but both sides need to play a role in moving forward

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 1d

Early in my career, I cultivated a spirit of “I know nothing.”

Now I try to do the much harder thing of accepting responsibility over areas I have unique skills in, while still trying to be curious and trying know what I don’t know.

“Know thyself” turns out to the final, forever boss.

a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him

Alt: a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I have a Claude project where I uploaded a knowledge base (both code and documents) and it’s been super effective for searching over it, and I’ve been using Claude Code to help generate custom demos.

Both are huge time savers after of course the setup, but I think not every task is like that

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 5d

What types of tasks were you doing with them?

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 5d

dumb opinions strongly held

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 6d

YMMV, I saw it as a cliff’s notes version of what benefits you get + I love me any blog post with an underlying core repo.

I personally used a ✅ before LLMs sullied it but now I purge them from all of my writing 😬

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 6d

Code is amenable to LLMs because there’s a TON of open training data _and_ because you can test it / validate the output really well.

Not sure how you would achieve a thing remotely similar for spreadsheets, which famously don’t have an audit trail and whose computation lineage is opaque as hell

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 7d

There are a ton of posts about why x or y solution The Best, but my colleague Eric Thomas breaks it down: what concrete benefits might Dagster bring to your data pipelines?

Give it a gander (and clone the project and take it for a spin!): dagster.io/blog/buildin...

#dataBS

Modern Lakehouse Orchestration: Dagster vs Airflow Guide

Compare Airflow and Dagster for lakehouse orchestration. Discover event-driven processing, asset checks, and pure SQL patterns for MinIO, Trino, and Iceberg.

dagster.io

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the closest I’ve ever come to being interested in bird watching

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 8d

This funny, irreverent yet earnest documentary on extreme birding was exactly the palate cleanser I needed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 9d

Just clicked “undo” on an email I accidentally reply all’d to everyone in my company

a man wearing glasses is sitting on a couch with a spotify logo in the background

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 9d

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

a checkbox on a website that says "keep me logged in"

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 9d

Online discourse about anything makes sense when you remember how few college kids Did the Reading and how few of those Understood the Reading

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 9d

Sales Engineers: find you a founder who loves and respects the SE craft they way Nick Schrock does.

“I love Sales Engineers … sales engineers know the truth. The right SE could have the keys to the castle.”

Hear the whole (excellent) podcast here:

overcast.fm/+AA4TR8cJQU0

Co-creator of GraphQL and Founder of Dagster Labs - Nick Schrock — Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Nick Schrock is the founder of Dagster Labs, a data platform that helps you build, schedule, and monitor reliable data pipelines. They’ve raised $49M in funding from investors such as Sequoia, Index, ...

overcast.fm

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Adi Polak @adipolak.bsky.social · 10d

What advice would you give to someone in their twenties who wants to build a secure tech career?

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

Or, what my broken fridge taught me about B2B SaaS

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

I ordered a new washing machine within 5 minutes of realizing my old one was broken. I am extremely confident about the purchase, despite knowing approximately nothing about washing machines.

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

This happened with me and my new fridge! But I did all the right due diligence and the sales guy mislead me.

It all worked out in the end but lesson learned

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

Oh yeah I definitely measured, Wirecutter doesn’t know the dimensions of my laundry room!

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

Taking Witecutter for granted?

My water is super hard so that’s a great tip!

Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

Is this a “bias to action?” I mean .. I acted! Fast! But a thing that bothers me about bias to action discourse is you need to spend a long time developing judgment, developing a sense of who or what to put trust in, and then sure! Act quickly.

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

That’s because I spent a long time gaining confidence in Wirecutter over many years and many purchases, so I looked up Wirecutter’s favorite washing machine of 2025 and clicked “buy from Lowe’s.”

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Christian Minich @christiannolan.bsky.social · 12d

I ordered a new washing machine within 5 minutes of realizing my old one was broken. I am extremely confident about the purchase, despite knowing approximately nothing about washing machines.

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