Turning daily improvements into milestones
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash You’ve seen the statistic. 1% improvements daily for a year yield a 37x return. But it’s 365 days in a row, you say. How can I get better every day? Even if you only…
Building Diagrams with Computers
Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Have a comment or interested in sponsoring this newsletter? Hit reply. Ethan Mollick writes about AI that “the only way to figure out how useful AI might be is to use it.” This…
Build-your-own superpower
Photo by Marjan Blan on Unsplash Think of the most effective people you know. One of their characteristics is that for a given set of tasks, they are much better than anyone else at following a procedure, reviewing information, and…
Building Process Diagrams with AI: From Toy to Tool
Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash Every GTM team knows the pain of process documentation. It’s that necessary evil that eats up valuable time, rarely gets updated, and often fails to capture the nuance of real-world operations. In 2023, I…
Going from 0-1 in Data Operations
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Imagine you are starting a new venture and need to describe all the data tasks that need to happen to get you from “nothing” to “something” in Data Operations. These are the basic building…
An ode to console.log()
Photo by Thomas Peham on Unsplash Some of the first programs I ever wrote on a computer used PRINT to echo a line to the screen. Using BASIC, I filled the view with something like: 10 PRINT “This is cool!”20…
The coach will see you now
Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash If you have a comment or are interested in sponsoring, hit reply. When I was younger I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Professional baseball announcer was probably a more realistic goal given…
Data Operations, revisited
Photo by Mauro Gigli on Unsplash If you have comments or want to sponsor the newsletter, hit reply. When I started writing about data operations 162 issues ago I suggested an example definition that focused on data shared between systems,…
AI is my copilot
Photo by Chris Leipelt on Unsplash The other day I conducted a product design session with a friend. He wanted to put together a design for a conversational chat application. The task covered the creation of a scenario and modeling…
