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Service fees and variation in cost to serve
Pricing lessons from being a landlord I had a fridge delivered at one of my duplexes today. The fee to have it unboxed and set in place was $13 and it was $40 to haul away the old one. The guys who “installed it” massively struggled to get it into position. They had to take…
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Attention To Details
What other’s use as a proxy for quality As a high schooler my brother spent a summer working for a friend’s dad as grunt labor at a kitchen and bathroom remodeling company. Our parents weren’t very skilled at DIY projects and he didn’t come to the job with honed skills in the trades. Along with…
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The Most Human Human
An ode to Brian Christian and reflection on Jonathan Boymal’s review I loved this book so much I emailed the author directly to tell him! By far the most fulfilling part of rejoining LinkedIn about 18 months ago has been the opportunity to engage with intellectuals and have an exchange of ideas and exposure to…
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Groundhog day in analytics?
If you don’t stretch your boundaries they shrink Some entry level analytics jobs I had felt very much like groundhog day. I love this visual to get a broader perspective on how you can eventually build a repertoire of skills from the seemingly mundane. Sometimes the simplicity of the task, data or problem gives you…
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Cleaning before the “Cleaners” come
Can you really outsource data governance? One of the biggest luxuries in my life these days is once a month cleaners at my house. I could never have imagined paying someone to clean my house before, but I’ve been working a ton and have a toddler now and I decided to pay to know our…
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Easy to use Data Connector!
Testing out Portable for Service Titan with help from Ethan After weeks of struggling with minor steps and user credentials in an ELT process I finally got data out of ServiceTitan via Portable into Google Big Query and now its available to me in basically any data viz/reporting tool. I’m working with a family owned plumbing company doing flexible…
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PSA: Auto-renewal calendar notification
Contrasting communications: Maven Analytics & Enterprise DNA Last year I signed up for two different learning platforms to advance my technical skills in PowerBI, Tableau and Python. When you have the time and motivation to stay on task with self-paced learning these tools can be hugely valuable. Its important to be realistic with yourself if…
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Judging people by their bookshelves
Or desktops To some extent when I walk into someone’s house, or see it via conference call I look at their desk surface and bookshelves and make assumptions about them. I unfortunately read (listen on audible.com) about 80% non-fiction and have jettisoned many of the physical copies of books I’ve read over the years, so if…
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Storied interpretation of Kipling’s “If”
How does AI interpret poetry? I’ve been playing with Storied for writing assistance and found that it summarizes ideas concisely. This made me wondered “what would happen if it you feed it poetry which is already brilliantly pithy?” 1) Start a topic: I found the poem online and read it to StoriedIt produces the “Cliff Notes” or…
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Solutions in Search of Problems
How not to be a data analyst Ethan Aaron points out how to grow with inexpensive, widely available tools used wisely and to good effect rather than bespoke solutions to niche or future problems. This is a correllary to Armin Kakas post about how a quality business analyst is as or more important than a data scientist. Mastering…
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