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• Organizational Lock-in
  October 02, 2025

  I worked in an organization with lots of processes. I was in an office with no windows, a bit of a hole or maybe even...

• Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination)
  September 23, 2023

  I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the w...

• Business Urban Legends
  June 06, 2021

  There are a few business urban legends I’ve heard over the years that I try to trace down. It’s interesting to me bec...

• Tools I use
  April 19, 2021

  Thought it would be helpful to describe the various tools and things I use on a day to day basis. Inspired by Stephen...

• What does data ownership really mean?
  March 02, 2021

  I’m really interested in privacy and how my data are collected, used, stored and just in general exists. While I thin...

• I Want to Fix Goodreads
  September 12, 2020

  I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a ...

• Scary Terrorism Math
  August 15, 2020

  The August 4th explosions in Beirut were very jarring to me due to the loss of human life, and the numerous, direct v...

• Measuring Data Maturity
  May 22, 2020

  Lately I’ve been thinking about data maturity models within large organizations, and how to measure maturity and abil...

• Cleaning up Tableau workbook files to remove the inline thumbnails
  February 05, 2020

  I like to track my Tableau visualization projects in git to protect against screwups and for curiosity of what previo...

• How to identify yourself, when yourself changes? Neal Stephenson's PURDAH.
  January 13, 2020

  I try to read every book by Neal Stephenson because he writes characters that I wish I could be, or perhaps are the c...