I publish a couple times a month on Substack. Below is a subset of my recent writing.

Indie Life

Year 2 self-review. If Year 1 was about me changing how I worked, Year 2 was about how I worked changing me.

Year 1 self-review. What I learned and where I’m headed.

Ego death at work. How to adopt an observational mindset.

Selling yourself. How I learned to stop worrying and love indie sales.

Learning, and doing, strategy. The conditions that produce good strategy and help teach it to others.

The conflict quadrants. Diagnosing conflict and what to do next.

Molt! To grow, you must shed your shell and start anew. This is true at any size.

Career ladders for startups. How to evolve your leveling framework as your org grows.

How I conduct performance reviews. A script to help keep the conversation focused and productive.

Your first analytics hire. What to look for when it’s time to build an analytics function.

Multi-touch attribution. When to do it and what to expect from the process.

Think like a newspaper editor. How newspaper design influenced how I communicate analysis.

Good dashboard, bad dashboard. How to design dashboards to encourage understanding.

What I want in a BI tool. A list of observations and requests.

Investigating an alarming chart. The shape that plausible, and implausible, explanations tend to take.

Building the Air data stack. From nothing to full visibility in three months with Mode, BigQuery, Fivetran, and dbt.

Getting into tech mid (analyst) career. A framework for thinking about joining tech from consulting, academia, etc.

What is your management operating system? A shortcut to understanding how someone manages.

The modern data stack. The core components of modern analytics.

Analytics roles. A framework for thinking about the skillsets of different data roles.

Analytics org progression. A simple way to think about the phases of organizational development.

Attribution progression. The steps from simple attribution to something more sophisticated.

Under the napkin. Creating the space for imagination and collaborative play.

Herding Vespas. Applying the right methods to the right problems.

My user manual. User manuals are a great way to get to know the people you work with; I’ve shared mine here.

Peloton is a content business. Why Peloton is more like Netflix than Soulcycle or NordicTrack.

On graduating into a recession. A bit of modest advice based on the experience of me and my classmates since 2009.

Philly recommendations. For friends heading to my hometown, things to eat and see.