I wrote a few months ago that the most dangerous people in a data org are the technical ones who understand the business. That post was about humans. Same rule…
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Someone built a coffee shop you order from via SSH. Not a joke. Not a demo. A real business called terminal.shop. You type ssh terminal.shop and you can buy…
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I read a piece in HBR recently by Marcus Buckingham called What Companies Can Learn from Their Biggest Fans. His argument is that most companies pour their…
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Last weekend I built a personal finance app. It took a few hours. I used an AI coding assistant, talked through what I wanted, and by Sunday evening I had…
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What if everything we know about enterprise software design is about to become obsolete? For forty+ years, we’ve built systems around a single assumption:…
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Everyone’s racing to build AI that shops for you. I think they’re solving the wrong problem. Over the past few months, I’ve been watching the agentic commerce…
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The start of a new year is often a natural moment to pause and think deliberately about what comes next. For me, it is less about declaring resolutions and…
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A faster, more reliable way to design complex models using an AI coding assistant and warehouse-integrated validation. Data modeling can be a slow and tedious…
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Starting a new leadership role is one of the most high-stakes transitions in any career. I’ve gone through it multiple times across very different…
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I recently wrote about how AI coding assistants are changing the build vs. buy equation, arguing that the traditional “buy first” approach is becoming…
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A senior exec once asked me whether my experience with streaming vs. batch processing and customer data platforms “really translates” across industries. On the…
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Over time, a lot of data teams drift into a pattern that’s hard to break out of. They become ticket takers, constantly responding to requests, pulling data for…
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Most technical people — whether they’re building software, managing infrastructure, designing data pipelines, or optimizing algorithms — focus heavily on…
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We’ve all been there. An organization is stuck in legacy, processes are inefficient, and it takes an army of people to get things don. The solution? Buy a…
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For most of my career, the build vs. buy decision in software has leaned heavily toward buy, especially in the enterprise. It is understandable. Buy is faster.…
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Over the years, I’ve come to believe that the most effective technologists are the ones who stay deeply connected to the business. Not just during planning…
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You’re grinding. You’re pushing through. You’re delivering. But is anyone noticing? In corporate world, execution and independence are table stakes. But real…
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As more companies invest heavily in data as they grow, the question of how to structure the data and analytics function becomes increasingly important. It is…
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In today’s business culture, collaboration is treated as the gold standard. We idolize team players, prioritize consensus, and treat solo work as a red flag.…
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One of the biggest mistakes I see in digital projects? Teams rushing to automate business processes without first asking whether those processes make any sense…
