This week I spent fifteen minutes finding a bug. Records were dropping out of a data pipeline somewhere between where they started and where they were supposed to land, and nobody could say where. Finding it meant tracing the path through somewhere between twelve and fifteen thousand lines of code. I could do that by … Continue reading Left Click Or Right Click
In my twenties I worked with a man who got fired over something he said. I'll leave it there — it was his to carry and it isn't mine to publish. Today it would be called an HR violation. We both worked for the owner of the company. A client told the owner the man … Continue reading I Knew The Guy
In my mid-twenties I was the office manager at an insurance adjustment firm, which is a title that meant almost nothing. What I actually did was accounts receivable and accounts payable, and errands, and whatever anyone needed, and on some days taking care of the dog. Ten dollars an hour. The owner smoked cigars at … Continue reading Ten Cents
I've spent close to twenty years in data, and a lot of that time on project work. Some of it high profile. On the ones I led, I wasn't a manager — I was the technical subject matter expert, which meant I wasn't responsible for anyone's paycheck but I was responsible for the work packages … Continue reading Whose Name Is On It?
Open any business feed this month and you'll see the same headline wearing a dozen different logos. Oracle cutting tens of thousands. Snap trimming another slice. Block reshaping itself and watching the stock climb the same afternoon. Different companies, different numbers, but almost all of them reach for the same three-word explanation: AI did it. … Continue reading Your Agency Is the Story
David Willis 