Model
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The Data Backlog Nobody Prioritizes
Every sprint planning I sit in ends with the same item: the data fix.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Trusted
When finance keeps a shadow spreadsheet next to the official dashboard, the spreadsheet is usually right.
Read →The Three-Layer Rule For Small Teams
I've seen five-person data teams with six warehouse layers. Nobody could say which one finance reads.
Read →The Rebuild Cost Curve
Every quarter the wrong data foundation stays in place, more of the business gets built on top of it.
Read →Startup Stack Vs Scale-Up Stack
About half the data stack that got you to 25 people won't make it to 80. You can guess which half now.
Read →Postgres Or A Real Warehouse First
Postgres can probably carry your analytics longer than you think.
Read →DE Role Evolution 2026
If a model writes the pipelines, I don't know yet where your juniors learn why pipelines break.
Read →Semantic For Unstructured First
Most AI data problems I see start in a column called payload, long before any embedding.
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