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    GTM is like SDLC

    Craft construction and factory construction are different ways to achieve the same goal. If you want a table, you can craft one by selecting lumber and using a wide variety of carpentry skills to shape and sand and varnish a table. Or you can select an item from a table production factory. Personal craft is…

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    Small Data 2024 Review

    This week I went to the Small Data conference. It was really interesting, here are some rough notes. Big Data is Not a Number Jordan Tigani, MotherDuckRuns over the history of cloud systems development: horizontal scale instead of vertical scale, tools to manage emergent complexity, frameworks to manage complex tools. Big data taxes: there’s a…

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    Entropy Gonna Get Your Data

    Here’s some followup to my Norton’s Law post — Quinn Norton explained “The main thing I’d add, and I should revisit this, is that it’s an expression of not too complex information theory/physics in our current data landscape: information, in all its glorious forms, requires energy, and if it doesn’t get it, it is subject…

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    Steering from the Engine Room

    Let’s say you’re in disagreement with the leaders of your organization. It’s not unusual, especially for a product manager. You’re hired to be independent and creative, but only up to a point. And so a new owner comes in, or a new team, or a new priority… the business wants to do something that you…

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    When Does Architecture Matter

    I’m thinking of two orgs that did cloud by oh shit lift and shift and then rebuilt everything with more cloud-native architectures. The first org planned and executed that rebuild as a company-wide effort. They mandated, “We will all focus all our effort on doing this The Right Way (TM)” and didn’t ship a new feature for…

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