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Start with One Workflow (opens the original)
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When it comes to building useful agentic systems to automate work, a question we often get from students is, “where do I even start”. I get it, it could feel overwhelming. We teach agentic analytics, and at AI Analyst Lab we open-sourced our production AI Analyst system for everyone to use and customize so analyses can be done at fraction of the time and multiples of the quality. At first glance, the system looks intimidating. So many components, lots of moving pieces, and everything feels like
Ace Analytics Interviews with AI (opens the original)
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Interviewing is a skill. I used to treat my first few interviews as warm-ups to hone that skill. Today, I don’t think we have that luxury. But there is a way to simulate them that really helps:Entering the interview gauntlet is so different from day-to-day work. I’ve bombed them purely from not being in the zone. Usually it’s the first 2 or 3. Which sucks when one is a company you really want to work for.To prepare, I used to talk to a the companies I was least excited about first, get all those
When the Metric Becomes More Important Than the User (opens the original)
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When I worked at Nextdoor, we reported 43 million weekly active users at the time. In truth, fewer than half ever opened the product that week.That metric drove some of the worst decisions I experienced during my tenure at the company, decisions that worked directly against what users obviously wanted and asked for.Become a free subscriber.<input
When Concern About a Product Becomes Control of Its Market (opens the original)
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Brigham Young warned Utah about whiskey and controlled who could make it. Then he established what historians call a “virtual Church monopoly” on liquor distribution.Now bear with me here. I heard most of this history during a tour at High West Distillery a few years back, so things are a bit fuzzy.But the story, as I understand it, goes something like this.Early Mormon Utah was not nearly as dry as you might imagine.Brigham Young, president of the church and governor of the territory, complaine
I Quit My Last 3 Jobs Over Fake Data Work (opens the original)
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I quit my last 3 jobs over fake data work. The management chain burned my team's time pulling metrics that measured nothing and changed nothing. We told them, they nodded, then did it again.When this starts to annoy me, my wife usually asks something like, "Can't you just clock in, clock out, and collect the paycheck?"I've talked to a lot of senior IC about how they feel about this.Earlier in our careers, we can. Almost every problem feels new. But after you do something long enough, the work ge
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