“ The politics of data often takes the form of companies and people saying they are “data-driven”, while in reality using data to push a pre-determined agenda.” - oh man do I ever feel this statement lately. It also falls nicely in with the Twitter read. These companies that started as elite engineering orgs devolve over time because they were never built to last, there was no incentive to do things sustainably.
I’d forgotten about the golden rule of value post. This chain of value sometimes has weak links, then you’re managing up trying to get it all in line. I guess an extreme version is someone like Steve Jobs who relentlessly ignored Wall St., if he listened to them, Apple would be selling Blackberry clones. Bezos did it too, 20 years ago there were tons of questions about when Amazon would be profitable and why were they doing th this S3 thing? Sometimes the company has to manage its investors. As a data engineer you’re almost always in a state of nebulous value, you’re supposed to be the feedback part of this flywheel (especially if any kind of recommendations or personalization is important to your business) but if that breaks down it might take a long time to figure that out.
“ The politics of data often takes the form of companies and people saying they are “data-driven”, while in reality using data to push a pre-determined agenda.” - oh man do I ever feel this statement lately. It also falls nicely in with the Twitter read. These companies that started as elite engineering orgs devolve over time because they were never built to last, there was no incentive to do things sustainably.
I’d forgotten about the golden rule of value post. This chain of value sometimes has weak links, then you’re managing up trying to get it all in line. I guess an extreme version is someone like Steve Jobs who relentlessly ignored Wall St., if he listened to them, Apple would be selling Blackberry clones. Bezos did it too, 20 years ago there were tons of questions about when Amazon would be profitable and why were they doing th this S3 thing? Sometimes the company has to manage its investors. As a data engineer you’re almost always in a state of nebulous value, you’re supposed to be the feedback part of this flywheel (especially if any kind of recommendations or personalization is important to your business) but if that breaks down it might take a long time to figure that out.
Truth Gordon!