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We’re building a bot
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We’re building a bot

I held off on this longer than I probably should have. The case for an AI-facing interface has been obvious for a while. The case against it (hallucination risk, data security, governance exposure) was obvious too. What moved me was straightforward: I've spent years building tools for power
24 May 2026 1 min read
Fix the day
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Fix the day

We don't have direct S3 access. Entra-AWS identity friction makes that a non-starter for now, which means passively reading external tables from S3 isn't viable; not unless we're committing to full truncate-and-reload cycles on billion-row tables. We're not. So we built around
17 May 2026 1 min read
The wall has a name: linear algebra
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The wall has a name: linear algebra

I hit a wall in my quantum research. The wall has a name. Linear algebra was, in my entire math education, approximately one day of high school. The lesson went something like: here are matrices, they're easy, moving on. I had no reason to push back on that
08 May 2026 1 min read
Why your LinkedIn marketing doesn’t work on me
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Why your LinkedIn marketing doesn’t work on me

LinkedIn is textbook ens—ification. Is anyone going to make a serious argument that the deck is stacked against the normies of LinkedIn? Worse yet, imagine being a person at an organization that is a recipient of daily sales pitches. There's a baseline desperation that most people sense
30 Apr 2026 2 min read
Toward an applied quantum data theory
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Toward an applied quantum data theory

I’ve started working through quantum concepts seriously; not just quantum computing, but the larger theoretical framework underneath it. My gut tells me that the emergence of applied quantum computing in business is going to make the rush to AI seem small. Quantum cryptography, the ability to utilize true randomness,
15 Apr 2026 2 min read
Give a business owner an empty catalog and watch nothing happen
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Give a business owner an empty catalog and watch nothing happen

I'm generally a best-practices person. I think there's wisdom in the consensus positions that the data governance community has built up over decades, and I try not to be contrarian for its own sake. But some recommendations read like they were written for an organization that
10 Apr 2026 2 min read
How Apple and Jobs influenced how I run my data shop
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How Apple and Jobs influenced how I run my data shop

Thanks to some heavy recommendations from Macbreak Weekly, I ordered David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years. I’m about a third of the way through and it’s a denser read than I was expecting. I’ve seen some speculation online that it might be too technical, but
05 Apr 2026 2 min read
Creating a generation of power users
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Creating a generation of power users

Let's start with a distinction that doesn’t get the right level of attention. In your organization right now, you have passive data consumers and active data consumers. Passive consumers want reports in their inbox every Monday morning, formatted in Excel with formulas, "just in case someone
03 Apr 2026 3 min read
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