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Set up a new Mac for Power Users in 2024

A template to start a fresh mac installation

May 5 •

March 2023

Navigating the SVB collapse: Three SQL queries that helped us overcome uncertainty at Y42

Sometimes, there are these moments when everything seems to be on the line. Last weekend, this moment came for thousands of companies when a liquidity…

Mar 16, 2023 •

August 2022

Scaling Alignment with an Operational Meeting Rhythm

in a world of collaboration certain meetings are not avoidable. The meetings that are necessary should be catalysts for information sharing…

Aug 21, 2022 •

November 2020

Let’s stop making data infrastructure so complicated.

When we talk to fellow founders and leaders about how they utilize data, no matter which industry, the same pattern always emerges. As the organization…

Nov 18, 2020 •

January 2017

What happened to Big Data?

A post-mortem of a former buzzword for non-techies I love this quote from Dan Ariely, that used to describe the nature of Big Data in business: “Big…

Jan 12, 2017 •

How to think about Data Science and what happens if we don’t?

Taking my shot at deconstructing the buzzword. It is easy to forget that a data scientist is a relatively new term and not really a thing in the…

Jan 11, 2017 •

November 2016

Which side is your country on in a world of shifting powers?

Accidentally discovering leftover cold war structures in the multi billion dollar trade. hello world, With the current rise of populist movements in…

Nov 21, 2016 •

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