A still from Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial, directed by Ridley Scott If you’ve never seen this iconic 1984 ad for the Apple Macintosh computer, take a minute and watch. It will seem familiar to you, even 40 years after…
If you add a time series of the things that happened, you’ll get better analysis Time series measure the change from x to y by when: a value, demonstrated by its value at the beginning of a time range and…
What you get when you open a default FigJam template Let’s talk about prototyping. By design, it needs to be ugly. Prototypes are a quick way to share an idea, see whether a flow will work, and suggest something believable…
Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash You often hear companies say, “we’re customer obsessed.” What does this mean exactly? Beyond the obvious reason of keeping current customers from leaving and lining them up for expansion opportunities, the idea of being customer…
“A data model created by business users who want to describe their Salesforce data, illustration, movie poster” – created in Midjourney by PromptHunt.com If AI-driven image prompts could create an effective data model for business users to describe the data…
Photo by Jay Toor on Unsplash When you’re looking at data to inform a RevOps question (or any question), one of the key calculations you typically do is compare the average of a set of data to its median. Why…
Photo by Buzz Andersen on Unsplash It’s easy to get excited about a great idea. You’re going to change the world! When you get that epiphany and want to translate it into a working product, it’s important to keep the…
Is the app in the spreadsheet, or is the spreadsheet in the app? An example that surfacing app capabilities from a spreadsheet As a programmer, when you need new capabilities for an app or an environment that you are building,…
Imagine you can ask for anything you want. A picture of a unicorn eating a hamburger. An essay on the relative merits of a hot dog and whether it is a sandwich. A recipe that hallucinates a new combination of…
One of the most exciting ideas on the market today is the idea of learning models that answer questions with (seemingly) reliable answers. What could be better than a Google-like service that makes it possible to address almost any topic?…
