7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 29 I've been calling promoting my creative work a foreign country. A place I don't speak the language, don't know the customs, don't belong. I've been treating it like something that requires a translator or a guide just to survive. That's the wrong metaphor. And the wrong metaphor was … Continue reading Undiscovered Territory
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Data Is Communication
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 26 I had a conversation today that connected twenty years of my career to the thing everyone's trying to figure out right now. I work in data management. I've spent two decades as the person who sits between business teams and technical teams, translating what one side needs into … Continue reading Data Is Communication
The Joining Tables Moment
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 25 My freshman year of college, I convinced myself I couldn't handle music theory. I had the brain for it. I just didn't believe I did. So I enrolled in fundamentals instead — the kiddie pool — while my entire cohort moved ahead into the real coursework. I never … Continue reading The Joining Tables Moment
I Told the AI to Edit My Book
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 23 Earlier this year, I finished my first novel — 105,000 words of a YA superhero story set in the 1990s. It needed editing. I had Claude. I figured this would be straightforward. I said, essentially: let's edit this. The AI started rewriting my story. Not editing — recreating. … Continue reading I Told the AI to Edit My Book
The Wing-It Tax
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 17 I was 19 and a bit unobservant. I signed up for what I thought was personal finance. I wanted to learn how to balance my checkbook. I ended up in fundamentals of business finance, learning bond valuation. I did what I always did in college — I winged … Continue reading The Wing-It Tax
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