§ Writing · essays, build logs, notes

Notes from the build.

Long-form essays on data work and product judgment. Build logs from things I'm shipping - the trade-offs that didn't make the case study. Short notes when something's worth a paragraph but not an essay.

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I was daydreaming about making $1M from a song on Spotify, then got curious. Turns out I'd need the population of Belgium pressing play daily for a month.

A back-of-the-envelope tour through Spotify's pro-rata pool, from looping a song for a month to taking home the money.

I wondered if cars were rear-ending SUVs more often. The data says no.

I drove a Honda Accord for years and felt taller vehicles in front of me made everything harder to see. I went looking for the data to see if my felt experience matched the crash record.

Building the portfolio I'd actually want a recruiter to read.

The brief, the rejected directions, the design decisions I made on the way to a v1 - and the one thing I'd tell another analyst to do before designing anything.

More posts coming soon. The first build log is live; the rest are in the writing pile.

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/ build logA live SQL playground for a public dataset.A queryable, embeddable demo running on BLS data. The case-study-shaped side project I'm building for the portfolio itself.
/ essayBI to PM, without dropping the SQL.Notes from a two-year stretch on the product strategy side. What transferred, what didn't, and what I'd tell a senior analyst eyeing the same move.

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