Sanity Check #10 - ✏ > ⚔
Hi friends,
Data professionals are dynamic people.
They are:
- Designers with eye-pleasing visualizations
- Developers, authoring jobs that transform data into value
- Strategists in plotting out the needs of the business
Then at the higher levels, analysts do sales. We need to be persuasive in helping our colleagues arrive at a decision.
The one skill that helps all of these demands is writing. This week I've pulled together some of my favorite writing resources.
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Curated Columns
Write In Public, Inside Your Company - This crunchy column comes from Brie, a former Stripe employee. Stripe is well-known for their written culture. Patio11 went as far to describe Stripe as "a celebration of the written word which happens to be incorporated in Delaware."
In this article Brie shares plenty of thought provoking tactics that can help you establish or grow a writing culture in your org.
Writing Well - Julian Shapiro breaks down his writing process for improving our non-fiction writing. Each time I read it I can apply a new nugget.
Weinberg On Writing - This book walks through a writing method that allows you to write from abundance! The idea is to passively collect ideas and then piece them together when it is time to write.
What might this look like for analyses?
On Data Engineering Code Reviews - Code reviews are tech's equivalent of working with an editor. Julien's article sets the foundation for what a healthy code review practice looks like. You need to ensure the code is supported by all 4 pillars. If you don't, then the code base may begin failing in surprising ways over time.
Data Doodle
Joseph Moon shared a thread that hit home for me. He outlined data's 3 major interfaces and how they lined up with traditional productivity tools. Pay attention to when it's appropriate to use each one. Tying this into the weeks theme, the notebook is a blend of code and writing.
Bonus Doodle
Who doesn't love a good DAG? This is the process I use to passively collect ideas, remix them into something new, and push it back out to the world.
Writing is hard - so give yourself ever advantage you can get by building your own system.
Mr. Ben
Systems thinking Powered by data Visualized with drawings
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