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Jenga Analytics

You hold your breath, steady your hands, and deftly pull a block out from the tower. As you move to place the block on top of the tower, you pray for it to hold long enough to complete your turn.

The game of Jenga rachets towards instability by design. The only guarantee is the tower will eventually fall and someone will lose.

What if I told you that your analytics development process may be a game of Jenga.

Hiring Horoscope

It took me under an hour to create my own chatbot powered by my friendly neighborhood Large Language Model.

The barrier of entry is so low that it feels inevitable that the number of chatbots will proliferate. A chatbot will become another common interface just like a website or mobile app.

So how could this affect hiring?

The Post-Modern Data Stack

The Modern Data Stack may be a misnomer.

The set of recent data tooling is more complex, more sprawling, and more abstract than anything that came before it.

Drain on the system

As I handwash the pots and pans from dinner, the crud falls out and is caught by a mesh guard. This prevents food from clogging the main pipes yet still allows draining in the sink to occur - a simple yet effective preventive mechanism.

But happens when the guard fills up and the sink can no longer drain?

Tour De Farce

Pretend you are a fresh (or pimply) faced high school student visting a college campus. You are encouraged to join a tour, as it is the recommended way to get a "feel" for the place.

Onboarding LLM-ployees

You are a new member of the Data team and you are on your first rotation in answering ad-hoc questions from the business. How do you approach the following request?

A single mile

I catch myself day dreaming about a new company venture. What if we were to find market fit, gain customer traction, and get millions in monthly recurring revenue?

Automation Disruption

Many professionals claim that we should not worry about automation taking away jobs because it does the opposite. But is this really the case?

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