Life
🌊 This is Water
Reading and writing about awareness has always felt shallow to me. Personally, the only times in which I’ve truly appreciated awareness are when I find myself experiencing it firsthand...
Conor Dewey
Life
🙏 26 Principles for 26 Years
Another birthday has come and gone. On paper, things look similar to where I was last year. Mentally, things feel much different. There are things that gnaw at me of course, but I’m more content than I have been in a while...
Thinking
📜 Theory, Explained
From my distant perspective into academia, it seems that theory is something of a holy grail in published papers. Presenting novel information is interesting. Being able to explain why that information looks the way it does is better...
Life
⌛️ Meditations on Time
I’ve found that the one of the most important relationships for our happiness and productivity is that of our relationship with time. It can quickly turn into a sour one. I know it has for me in the past...
Data Science
🗺 Exploratory vs. Explanatory Visualization
I’ve been kicking around this notion of exploratory vs. explanatory data viz. Despite what most BI tools might have you think, not all data viz is created equal. The charts that we cobble together often have different goals...
Data Science
🎮 On Multiplayer Analytics
“Figma for X” might not be as common a startup trope as “Uber for X” but it’s definitely catching up over the last few years. My main beef with catchphrases like these are how often they get thrown around without any context...
Data Science
🥫 The Dashboard Maintenance Problem
Maintaining dashboards and analytics is hard and only gets harder as you further delve into the world of self-serve analytics. This makes sense. More stuff being created means more stuff that can break or slip between the cracks...
Data Science
🧱 Self-Serve Analytics Building Blocks: A Spectrum
Self-serve analytics is a tough game to win at. Lots of companies aspire to “do self-serve” in order to reduce the load on their analytics and data science teams, but few succeed. This doesn’t mean that we’re hopeless...
Life
🧳 6 Months Digital Nomading: A Review
In the wake of the pandemic, more and more people have opted to go the digital nomad route. I find that everyone’s experience is a little different, so hearing others’ perspectives is valuable...
Reading
🎓 Notes on Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman recounts the experiences of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with endless stories of academic and non-academic adventures...
Data Science
🗃 Making Dashboards Suck Less
There has recently been a lot of chatter in the data community about dashboards. Most of which converge on some version of “dashboards suck but what else,” as Benn Stancil points out in Data is for Dashboards...
Reading
🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia
The Making of Prince of Persia outlines Jordan Mechner's journal entries describing how an idea progressed over time and eventually became a best-selling video game...