Growth
📓 Reforge Recap: Acquisition
I'm taking a Reforge growth course and summarizing my learnings here. Up this week is acquisition, a topic that I've learned a lot about since starting at Hugo and working more towards the top of the funnel...
Conor Dewey
Data Science
🤖 Scaling Data and Self-Serve Analytics
When I started my first job as a data scientist, we spent a lot of time thinking a lot about how to scale data analysis across the organization. Saying that you are "data-driven" is one thing...
Growth
📓 Reforge Recap: Engagement + Retention
I've been a fan of Reforge for a few years now, mostly interacting with the program through their blog posts. As far as product + growth thinking goes, it's tough to beat the stuff that they put out on a consistent basis...
Quantified Self
⚡️ My Quantified Self Set-up
When I published my inaugural quantified self report a week ago, I ended up getting a few questions about how I track various metrics. I can share what it looks like at the moment...
Tech
🕹 Software as a Medium
I've been aware of the phrase, "the medium is the message" for some time but I never knew where it was from. Turns out, it was coined by Marshall McLuhan in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man...
Quantified Self
📊 Quantified Conor: Q1 2021
This is my first quantified self report. Since last year, I've been tracking various metrics to learn more about myself and well-being. I'm planning on publishing some version of this post at the end of each quarter...
Writing
🪴 Planting Your Digital Garden
You might have heard the phrase "digital gardening" thrown around more often lately. I was skeptical when I first heard it. It isn't a new thing by any means. But it is a rebrand that has been really helpful for me...
Data Science
🛠 The Modern Startup Analytics Stack
Analytics tooling and the discourse around these tools are becoming first-class citizens in the minds of startup founders. Several years ago this might have been a hot take. It definitely isn't anymore...
Reading
⚾️ Notes on The Mental Game of Baseball
I first came across The Mental Game of Baseball in high school, and it's still one of the most influential books I've ever read. Harvey Dorfman outlines how one's mental approach influences physical output...
Reading
🔅 Notes on Awareness
Ever since I first came across The Way to Love, I've been obsessed with Anthony de Mello and his writing. Awareness is cut from the same cloth and goes deeper on a number of ideas that will be on my mind for a long time...
Reading
📚 Reading Clusters for 2021
Despite the hours of commitment that come with a book, I've historically picked what to read next in a spur of the moment decision while looking through my Kindle backlog. I'm going to try something a little different this year...
Reflection
📆 2020 Year in Review
It's the time of the year again when people take to their blogging or social media platform of choice and share accomplishments from the previous 365 days. I'm not going to bury the lead. This is one of those posts...