Future Proof Your Time Series Data
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…
A Journey to Improve Prototyping with Figma
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…
Data Modeling for the Rest Of Us
“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…
Calculating the median in Google Sheets
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…
How Not to Boil an Ocean: Keeping Product Requests Manageable
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…
The secret life of spreadsheets: how you can give your apps super powers
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,…
What goals should we have for Conversational-style AI bots like ChatGPT?
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…
If code could talk, it would write these diagrams
The typical documentation dilemma – stop coding to document, or document much more later One of the biggest unsolved problems in software is making the code (and the output of that code) easier to read and understand. The reasons for…
It’s not easy if your customer says it’s not easy
Photo by Karla Hernandez on Unsplash Users are tired. They are stressed. They are overworked. They might be tired because they have too many meetings, have survived a pandemic, or are not getting any sleep. Enter your product. You are…
