Reflections

Thinking out loud

Notes on analytics, continuous learning, and staying creative while working with spreadsheets and query editors.

VisualizationJul 2026

Nobody is intimidated by a good chart

Complexity in a dashboard is almost always unresolved thinking. If the viewer needs a legend, a tooltip, and a caption to get the point, the point was never chosen.

SQLMay 2026

The query I rewrite every year

Three years of the same retention query, and each version says more with less. A short history of what I stopped doing.

GrowthMar 2026

Learning in public, quietly

Continuous learning does not have to mean a course certificate. Small finished experiments teach faster than long unfinished ones.

PromptingJan 2026

Prompting is just requirements gathering

The prompt frameworks that hold up are the ones that force me to state the audience, the constraint, and the decision first.