Data Operations

Posts about data operations, analytics, and organizational data management

189 posts

How do you show your work with LLMs?

Chatbot outputs sometime seem like magic. The first time you feed a PDF to Google’s Notebook LLM tool and get a podcast that explains the document to you, it feels like magic. The second time you do the same thing,…

How to fix race conditions in no-code workflows

Photo by Debdut Chowdhury on Unsplash When you build your first “hello world” automation with Zapier, Pipedream, or n8n, you’re looking for simple things. Connect a trigger, run some steps, make a few decisions, and get a predictable outcome. For…

A time machine that predicts churn

Photo by Roger Ce on Unsplash I want to build a time machine. Let me be more specific. I want to create a log of events that’s so good it identifies the events that are very likely to predict churn.…

The multiplayer challenge for no-code tools

Two-player mode in Old School Rally Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. The promise of no-code and low-code tools is compelling. We want to democratize software development and make it accessible…

How to write Slack messages that get results

Photo by Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash What makes a perfect Slack message? No, I’m not talking about a dunk, reaction gif, or pranks like faking a typing indicator with a bot so that people are typing… appears constantly.…