the fuel of founders: curiosity & impatience
“On a scale of 1-10 of impatience, the best entrepreneurs are an 11.” – Tom Stemberg, Founder of Staples Curiosity and impatience make for great founder traits, but they often pull in different...
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the psychology of the enterprise buyer
Consumer startups like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and even DropBox are built by founders who wanted to “make something cool” for their own benefit. Their teams intuitively understand what works...
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let us now praise data engineers
In the last year, the data scientist has been called “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” But if data is the new oil, and data scientists are its petrochemical high priests, who are the oil...
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design principles for data pipelines
(Image: ‘Tower of Babel’ by Pieter The Elder Bruegel, 1563) Underinvestment in and misunderstanding of ETL is a silent killer in organizations. It’s why reports are often delayed, why answers across...
View ArticleMartin Kihn on self-awareness
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, ‘To know oneself.’ And what was easy, ‘To advise another.’Martin Kihn, House of Lies The post Martin Kihn on self-awareness appeared first on m. e....
View ArticleColin Ware on cognition
Thinking is not something that goes on entirely, or even mostly, inside people’s heads. Little intellectual work is accomplished with our eyes and ears closed. Most cognition is done as a kind of...
View ArticleGeoffrey Moore on disrupting business with data intelligence
[A]ll the great business disrupters of the past decade [–] Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, Uber, Airbnb, Netflix—they are all running Systems of Observation against the data flows they are...
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Savor the surprises
Alexander Fleming, Photo Credit Historic UK I was recently listening to Mike Maples interview Andy Rachleff about the search for product-market fit, which is fitting, since Andy coined the term. Andy...
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Operational intelligence and the new frontier of data
Always-on businesses such as global retailers, social media apps, transportation platforms, and financial marketplaces have mission-critical use cases that require real-time decisions on operational...
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Apache Druid Turns 10: The Untold Origin Story
“We did something crazy: we rolled our own database.” – Eric Tschetter, creator of Druid Ten years ago today, the Druid data store was introduced to the world by Eric Tschetter, its creator, working...
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