Reading
❤️ Notes on How to Love
How to Love is a short read, but one that made me think a lot about what it means to love in the context of both yourself and others. These are the ideas that I thought were worth sharing...
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Data Science
⚖️ Building Rule-Based Data Products
Machine learning is seemingly baked into every established product these days. But I would posit that you probably don't need a legitimate machine learning solution at first...
Growth
🧪 The Growth Experiment Process
Growth doesn't fit nicely into one part of the funnel like a product or marketing team might. Instead, growth spans many parts of the funnel and can mean lots of different things depending on the company...
Product
🎮 Building Products for Delight
Lately, I've been thinking a bit about product design. Despite all of the lengthy Twitter threads on the subject, it's not super often that I come across a product experience that delights me...
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...
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...