Essays
All essays
- The Few Levers that Drive Business Growth · Business· 5 min read
- Leverage Points and Where to Find Them · Business· 6 min read
- Tinkering Without Permission · Learning· 6 min read
- The Most Useful, Timeless Skill to Learn as a Data Professional · Learning· 8 min read
- Every data request must have a clear path to the goal of the organization · Business· 2 min read
- Is Analytics Just a Growth Function? · Analytics· 3 min read
- What I've learned designing data systems · Data Modeling· 3 min read
- Will AI Replace Data and Analytics Engineers? · Analytics· 2 min read
- Designing Interactive Metric Trees · Analytics· 6 min read
- Lift and Shift Rarely Works · Strategy· 2 min read
- How to 10x the Performance of a Business · Business· 8 min read
- The Art of Business Analysis · Business· 7 min read
- Understanding Business Context · Business· 4 min read
- Why Do Companies Hire Data Professionals? · Business· 2 min read
- Rare and Valuable Data Skills · Learning· 3 min read
- Bring Instant Clarity to Business Objectives · Business· 4 min read
- Developing Expertise as a Data Analyst · Learning· 3 min read
- Lessons Learned Implementing Metric Trees · Analytics· 6 min read
- The Data Leadership Triad · Strategy· 4 min read
- Good Questions Bad Questions · Analytics· 4 min read
- You Need More Data Architecture · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Designing an Evolutionary Data Architecture · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Invisible Asymptotes in Growth Curves · Business· 5 min read
- Learn Things That Don't Change · Learning· 5 min read
- How to Build a Long Lasting Data Career · Learning· 4 min read
- Data Analysis Uncertainty Principle · Analytics· 4 min read
- No Such Thing As Dirty Data · Data Modeling· 2 min read
- Reducing Data Questions Deluge · Analytics· 4 min read
- Analytics Was Never About Tools · Analytics· 3 min read
- Curating Signals to Drive Focus · Business· 4 min read
- Transforming a Data Culture · Analytics· 3 min read
- Debugging Your Business with Data · Business· 9 min read
- Synchronizing Organizational Decisions · Business· 2 min read
- Data Tech is Necessary But Not Sufficient · Analytics· 2 min read
- The Root Cause of All Problems in Data - Revisited · Analytics· 8 min read
- Designing Metrics Trees · Analytics· 4 min read
- How Dashboard Trees Work and Why · Analytics· 4 min read
- Getting Rid of Dashboard Sprawl · Analytics· 4 min read
- Using Data to Find Growth Levers · Business· 6 min read
- How Analytics Can Make a Massive Impact on the Bottom Line · Business· 5 min read
- Delivering Value as a Data Team · Analytics· 6 min read
- Why Focusing on Answering Questions Dooms Data Teams · Analytics· 4 min read
- SOMA Data Modeling Patterns · Data Modeling· 5 min read
- Designing Modular Data Workflows · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Modular Dimensional Data Modeling · Data Modeling· 6 min read
- How to make SQL queries faster · SQL Patterns· 4 min read
- Modeling Data for SOMA Metrics · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Implementing a Metrics Stack From Scratch · Analytics· 3 min read
- How Analytics Drives Operational Excellence · Business· 4 min read
- On Being Data Driven · Analytics· 7 min read
- How Analytics Wins · Analytics· 6 min read
- Why Analytics Should Be Standardized · Analytics· 6 min read
- The Root Cause of All Problems in Analytics · Analytics· 9 min read
- The Evolution of Data Practice · Strategy· 6 min read
- The Data Strategy Playbook · Strategy· 5 min read
- Fundamental Data Engineering Concepts: Reduce Your Search Space · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Fundamental Data Engineering Concepts: Divide and Conquer · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- How to model a business with activities · Data Modeling· 3 min read
- The hidden role of analytics · Analytics· 3 min read
- Why I love data engineering · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- The disillusionment of data careers · Analytics· 3 min read
- Inside the metrics playbook tech stack · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Introducing the Metrics Playbook · Analytics· 4 min read
- Make data modeling fun again · Data Modeling· 3 min read
- Refactoring SQL - Level 2 · Data Modeling· 4 min read
- Why you should study SQL first (even if it ever becomes obsolete) · SQL Patterns· 2 min read
- Refactoring SQL - Level 1 · SQL Patterns· 3 min read
- How to Write Modular SQL · SQL Patterns· 7 min read
- How to get REALLY good at advanced SQL · SQL Patterns· 4 min read
- What should you do next to advance your career? (Plus an in-depth SQL analysis) · Learning· 3 min read
- How to build a lucrative career in data · Learning· 5 min read
- How to become a trusted advisor · Learning· 3 min read
- How to build a career moat in the data field · Learning· 2 min read
- Why data modeling is a super skill · Data Modeling· 2 min read
- How to communicate data effectively · Learning· 2 min read
- Exploring the ActivitySchema · Data Modeling· 12 min read
- Why Analytics Engineering is Here to Stay · Data Modeling· 2 min read
- How to Calculate Monthly Active Users (MAU) with SQL · SQL Patterns· 3 min read
- Celebrate Your Data Analysts - Before It's Too Late · Data Modeling· 6 min read
- How I Learned Data Science in 90 Days · Learning· 4 min read
- Learning Strategy from First Principles - A Review of Wardley Maps · Strategy· 9 min read
- The Data Executive Playbook: How to use Wardley Maps to Determine Strategy in Modern Organizations · Strategy· 6 min read
- Understanding the Data Landscape and Strategic Play Through Wardley Mapping · Strategy· 8 min read
- Goals Aren't the Only Way · Learning· 4 min read
- How to Recognize Hidden Opportunities · Learning· 6 min read
- Extracting Text Tags from Product Descriptions using Machine Learning · Data Modeling· 5 min read
- How to Get Lucky - The Elements of Serendipity · Learning· 7 min read
- The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius · Learning· 11 min read
- Why Unstructured Learning is the Secret to a Lucrative Career · Learning· 5 min read
- Obliquity - Why Some Problems Cannot Be Solved Directly· 3 min read
- Why Plans are Useless but Planning Indispensable· 5 min read