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Making and learning and making some more -- a rarely updated collection of posts about technology and management
- Goodbye to Everything That I Knew
A musing on skills that used to matter
- Snapshot Your Metrics Models
Don't let unexpected source data changes scare your stakeholders with changes to important KPIs. Add snapshots and tests to important metrics to be notified if something goes wrong with a key metric.
- Analytics Engineering Dotfiles
Automating configuration of an M1 Macbook for analytics engineering. Includes configuration of VSCode for working with dbt and Jinja. Fork it for easy setup of your own mac, or check it out for inspiration for zsh aliases.
- Upskilling Analysts
Do your analysts want to be analysts forever? Maybe not.
- Management Seat Time
Reflections on management and returning to engineering
- Learning is a Superpower
(Finally) Open Sourcing My Automated Reading List Digest
- Deep Work for Data Teams
Making your team happy by making time for learning, growth, and fixing the stuff that's driving them crazy
- Improving Onboarding for Data Teams
Quickly getting new data team members up to speed requires four elements -- access, skills, context, and connections. Read on to learn more about a framework I developed to help new hires move from overwhelm to productivity.