50 metres from the fork in the road I had to decide, "where do I want to go from here?" To the left was a detour of about 7 kilometres; on the right, a more direct route that would have taken me home in about 3. It was an exceptionally warm day; I hadn't ran... Continue Reading →
Less insight, more value
One of the things that I get asked a lot at work is to create a reports, run an analysis, or get some data so we can get visibility on XYZ, normally as a result of a question asked by a HiPPO (highest paid person in the office) because they were "curious". To these people... Continue Reading →
Making algorithms more human
I once wrote about one of the dangers of machine learning algorithms (e.g. the thing that powers the rules behind which many decisions are made in the real world): the closed feedback loop. An algorithm that falls into one of these closed feedback loops starts to lose its ability to learn from more data, since... Continue Reading →
Tackling the Missing Middle of Adoption
As he watched the presentation we were giving him on the machine learning project we were working on, I couldn't but help notice his furrowed brows. I knew him to be a natural sceptic, one who loved asking tough questions that dug deep into the heart of the matter. Though these questions occasionally bordered on... Continue Reading →
The Attention Asset
There's a post on Seth Godin's blog today called Do we value attention properly? In it, he argues that we need to be careful not to discount the attention we get from our audience, i.e. anyone who pauses to listen to us, because attention is valuable. He makes a good point: attention if leveraged properly... Continue Reading →
Waiting.
One grey tick, then two. Now wait for ticks to turn blue. Love, I'll wait for you.
The best books I’ve read
are those that I've read with a question in mind to be answered (especially work-related non-fiction). The worst are those where I've gone through chapter after chapter, with the words "so what?" at the end.
We might actually know more than we think we do
As I listened to the speaker of the webinar, a man who had tons of Sales Operations experience, something gnawed at me - something about what he was saying felt incongruent, felt wrong, but I didn't just couldn't put my finger on it. I took notes, and then started connecting the dots. And before long... Continue Reading →
The Perfect Car
Give me aMerc; a Porche; a Bugatti;A Fiat; a Bentley; no, give me a Ferrari.Give me the speed; the space; the luxury! I could just imagine myself sitting in one of those perfect cars. Hands on wheel, jazz playing softly in the background, driving down a lonely country road in the orange glow of the... Continue Reading →
Tit for Tat
Pleasantries exchanged, we got down to business. Rather new to each other, we moved deliberately. The context of the meeting was potentially explosive. It had all the makings of "your word against mine" scenario. But it started out well. Facts, or perspectives of the facts, were exchanged, and these facts turned out to be decently... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 