Hi friends, Thanks for being here! No preamble - just hope you're having a good day =) Let's get into it. Subscribe DPIM Framework Bundling better infra, people, models, and data A tweet lead me to ask what does better analytics infrastructure, models, data, or even people actually mean? The answer turns out to be "it depends" 🤷♂️ So I wrote out a framework to help you find what better looks like to you. Read more Curated Columns The many faces of "Production" - I really like Randy's...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hi friends, I promised you that I would get the newsletter out each week, even if I wasn't able to hit publish on an article. Well - no article this week. To make up for it, I've stuffed extra Curated Columns in here. The theme - leverage. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes Subscribe Curated Columns Benn Stancil's Response - Benn shared a few blurbs on last week's Data's Secret Sauce article. He quickly teased out a...
about 4 years ago • 2 min read
Hi friends, Do you smell that? This week Sanity Check is all about sharing your tasty analyses without giving away the secrets that make it special to you. The Curated Columns are all people that are sharing openly. If you're finding this helpful share it with some friends. Subscribe Data's Secret Sauce Secret family recipes are special because of the warmth and memories attached to them. I believe analyses are the same way. Internal insights are special because of the direction and...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hi friends, Welcome back a week later. You know the ol' saying, "Once is a fluke, twice is a trend". Well we are trending up! This week I'm excited to share with you a call to raise the bar and doodles that take us beyond our 2D medium. Subscribe Curated Columns The high-return activity of raising other's aspirations - A friendly push at the right time can help people achieve more than they had envisioned for themselves. SaaS Metrics 2.0 - This blog post is light on implementation details,...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hi friends, Welcome to all the new subscribers! Glad to have you here. For the rest of you, welcome back! I know the updates have not exactly been weekly ... or monthly. But I'm back to do better by you. If you rather opt-out, the unsubscribe link is at the bottom. "Fall down seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb The pressure to write a new article every week knocked me down. Here I am, standing up again. There won't be a new article each week, but you can expect some curated columns,...
about 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hi friends 👋 A special Monday edition of Sanity Check! Just kidding. I am just late again. What's important is I am enjoying sharing with you all and I hope you are enjoying it too. Subscribe Passable Prose What I have written Git Environmental Activism - Protect Our Branches This is my most technical post to date. I see analytical teams maturing by putting their transformations under version control. It’s great progress, but too often when pushed to hit a deadline individuals fall back into...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Hi friends 👋 Still working on my consistency, but I'm also still writing. Thanks for being here, and if you like it don't be shy about forwarding to your friends. Subscribe Passable Prose What I have written Analytics: the mixed bag Working in the data space is confusing. The confusion spans companies, careers, tools, and delivering our work. This article attempts to parse those challenges and reframes them for why there is no better place to be. Read more Curated Columns What I found...
over 4 years ago • 3 min read
Hi friends, I’m hitting your inbox late this week. It is likely not a big deal for you, but a disappointment for me. I want to build this weekly publishing muscle. My curation piece was not ready to share on Wednesday. To take my mind off the writers block, I distracted myself with newsletter and website improvements. The largest change was creating a newsletter landing page. Let me know how many other changes you can spot, and which ones you like. Passable Prose The curation post was a...
almost 5 years ago • 2 min read
Hi there! Another week down - another article published. This past week was difficult for me pull the article together. Dare I say, it was a *miracle* I am even able to hit publish tonight. 🙏🏻 It would not have been possible without you all! And an extra special thanks to Mitchie for providing the key insight that helped this whole article come together. Mysterious to Miraculous: Introducing the 3Ms of Comprehension This article is more technical than my first. The goal is to introduce a...
almost 5 years ago • 1 min read