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243 posts filed under Ai.

Nov 7, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Build Buy Or Duct-Tape Your Pipeline

Some broken pipelines only need duct tape and a ticket with a date on it.

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Nov 6, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

The Data Backlog Nobody Prioritizes

Every sprint planning I sit in ends with the same item: the data fix.

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Nov 5, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

The Engagement That Started As A 10-Day Review

The brief says the dashboards are slow. Day five usually finds the reason nobody asked about.

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Nov 4, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Your Data Debt Isn't Technical

Most of the data debt I see at 40-person companies is three definitions of 'customer' written in SQL.

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Nov 3, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Warehouse Or Lakehouse At 40 People

At 40 people, a lakehouse needs someone whose job is running it.

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Oct 20, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Stop Hiring A 'Data Person

Your job post for a 'data person' describes three jobs. Whoever takes it will burn out doing all three.

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Oct 19, 2026 Platform & Velocity

The Reporting Lag That Signals Outgrowth

Ask whoever builds your monthly report to list every manual step. The list is your platform gap.

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Oct 18, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

When A Vendor Retires Your Pricing Tier

Your data platform bill can go up without anyone on your team changing a thing.

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Oct 16, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Three Numbers That Predict A Rebuild

Dashboard query time, pipeline failures per week, days to first data change. Pull all three this afternoon.

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Oct 15, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

The Silent Data Hire Delay

The first data hire usually lands a funding round later than it should have.

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