A man at church asked if AI could fix his wandering meetings. The answer turned out to be the oldest rule in data governance: write down what you decided and why.
Folklore
Category: Work & Data
Three Legs, One Stool
A lead data engineer once called me a politician. Lencioni's framework says the politician and the ideal team player can look identical on a Tuesday — the difference is what the people-smarts are for. Whether I'm one or the other is the leg I can't check myself.
The Shoestring
The truck died on the side of the road and nobody was coming out. I fixed the throttle linkage with the shoestring out of my own boot, and two weeks later my manager wanted to talk to me about proper notice.
Take A Nap
May 2016. The vice president over our group called and asked me to come to his office. He hardly ever talked to me. I knew before I stood up. I knocked, he waved me in, and he said it from behind his desk — times are tough, the decisions have been hard, we're going to … Continue reading Take A Nap
His Hard Hat
My grandfather went to work for Mobil Oil in 1946, right out of the war, and stayed until he retired around 1988. Forty-some years, southwest Oklahoma, running routes as a pumper. He was a slender man. Five-eight, five-nine, not big. And he had some of the strongest hands of anyone I've ever known — grip … Continue reading His Hard Hat
