Me buying best-in-breed tools for specific use cases: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me doing quarterly access reviews for all my best-in-breed tools for specific use cases: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Data folks are involved in TONS of value-generating activities, and as a group we need to get more comfortable taking credit for being drivers of those activities.

I have been seeing an increasing number of posts from consultants and fractional data leaders recently suggesting that companies don't need to hire a full time leader, and that their services should be retained instead.

It's 2024.

LinkedIn overflows with thought leaders proclaiming AI will get better and cheaper, if we just wait 6 months.

Data quality is still a mess, despite insistence that AI will finally justify investments.

Sparkles are stamped on UIs everywhere, ruining a perfectly good emoji.

Data is more accessible than ever to folks in every sort of job function, and it's started making me think that one of the most valuable things a data professional can do is push everyone else to use data in an opinionated way

If you've worked on an early stage or growing product, you've probably had the experience of watching your average and per user metrics gradually worsen as your user base grows.

Much like chess or day trading, data analysis is something that people like to imagine they'd be good at if they just had the time

Oh so you're a data analyst?
Name all the datas

An exemplary practice in my workplace Slack is that whenever any piece of software causes a problem, someone quickly creates an emoji of Abe Simpson yelling at the logo called :old-man-yelling-at-[THING]:

you get ads like these in your weather app and suddenly you understand why people want to regulate generative AI. no human mind could imagine such a twisted pair of... um, women's day deals?

Was watching a sales rep at my neighborhood wine store click around in the backend of their point of sale system to enter a promo and noticed that it seems to have my LTV.

I am intrigued as a data scientist and proud/embarrassed as a person

Me: If Twitter dies, I think I might be done with social media

Also me: oh cool a bluesky invite