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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Two answers to the same question (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 19, 2026

    “Data consultant” competes with thousands (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    How to know if you are too early for fractional (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 5, 2026

    The job was never the code (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    The pair of hands problem (opens the original)

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    A senior data analyst I mentor signed his first paid advisory client this week.Eight years in. Strong SQL, strong Tableau. The kind of person every company leans on and quietly underpays.He’d landed a one-off diagnostic for a startup. Look at the data, tell us what’s broken, send an invoice. Clean, contained, the kind of gig a good analyst can do in his sleep.And he was about to make the mistake almost every technical person makes. Deliver everything, brilliantly, for a flat fee, and get remembe

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