Data Operations

Why isn’t this sort of functionality easy to create everywhere? One of the biggest challenges to obtaining a full view of the customer is that the system you are viewing probably doesn’t have access to the important milestones of a…

 It takes an average of 23 minutes to recover from an interruption. Have you experienced that feeling of “what was I doing” after being interrupted mid-task? Perhaps you were cooking dinner, your phone buzzed with a text, and then someone…

 Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash A (very) smart person recently shared feedback with me that was brief, accurate, and telling. He suggested: “when you have big ideas, start with smaller words and bring people along for the ride.” This…

Photo by John Barkiple on Unsplash In any company today there are many intersections between systems. The analog version looked a lot like this control board where similarly colored cables indicate similar kinds of data that need to flow from…

Dad Jokes are a good initial prompt for bots and a “toy” app Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash In a remote work environment, we…

Supercomputer, from the Choose Your Own Adventure series Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. If you walked to Waldenbooks (a long ago bookstore chain) in late 1984, you might have been…

if Notion designed LinkedIn’s icons, buying intent might look like this Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. You probably get daily emails and phone calls from Sales Development Reps asking for…

Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. This week, OpenAI added a beta feature for ChatGPT that enables users to create scheduled tasks. “Asking ChatGPT to…