Oversimplified: Volume 106
Scaling self-serve analytics, being rich, and tackling churn problems
Hey there đ
Summer is right around the corner in New York, and it canât come soon enough. Quick hits this week, along with a couple of new posts from yours truly. Hope you enjoy them. Letâs get to the best links I found on the internet this week.
âď¸ Scaling Data and Self-Serve Analytics
Conor Dewey | Data Science | 2021-04-16
When I started my first job as a data scientist, we spent a lot of time thinking a lot about how to scale data analysis across the organization. Even today at Hugo, I still think about this problem often. Turns out, it isn't super straightforward to solve.
âď¸ Reforge Recap: Engagement + Retention
Conor Dewey | Growth | 2021-04-13
I've been a fan of Reforge for a few years now, mostly interacting with the program through their blog posts. Fast forward to now, I'm full-tilt on the product growth path and I'm excited to be taking one of their courses. As it progresses, I'll be sharing my notes and reflections here.
đ Setting Team KRs: A Guide for First-Timers
Claire Carroll | Product Management | 2021-04-07
Claire Carroll does a great job sharing insights on setting the KR-part of OKRs. This line, in particular, is one that I wholeheartedly agree with: âIn my opinion, any time in your career that you go from âI donât know how to do this / I really struggle with this taskâ to âI think I know how to do thisâ â write about that inflection point!â
đ Just Be Rich
Keenan Charles | Economics | 2021-04-12
The interaction between Paul Grahamâs How People Get Rich Now and this response post from Keenan Charles makes for some really interesting and entertaining reading. I wish response posts were a more common occurrence.
đ Churn is Hard
Randy Au | Data Science | 2006-04-13
Another great down-to-earth take on a common data science problem: âThe distribution of causes of customer churn are very likely distributed along something that resembles a power law, so variants of the 80/20 rule usually apply. Usually, people take this to mean that they just have to find âthe one thingâ thatâs causing all the churn. If only we could find that magic bullet, weâd solve churn, make millions, and go home.â
đ Movie of the Night
Cevat Yilmaz | Entertainment
This seems like a very useful site to have on hand next time youâve been searching for a movie to watch on Netflix for 20 minutes without making a decision.
đ 100 Things I Know About Design
Dan Saffer | Design | 2021-03-30
Lists like this are always fun, but I find them especially interesting if itâs in a subject that Iâm a somewhat of a beginner to, not unlike design.
Food for Thought
âYou hear it all the time from even the most seasoned investors and financial âexpertsâ that this trend or that âdoesnât make sense.â âIt doesnât make sense that the dollar keeps going lowerâ or âit makes no sense that stocks keep going higher.â But whatâs really going on when investors say that something makes no sense is that they have a dozen or whatever reasons why the trend should be moving in the opposite direction⌠yet it keeps moving in the current direction. So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. Thatâs what doesnât make sense. The world always makes sense.â â Adam Robinson
Until next time
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Until next time,
Conor