Listen to this article: Sometimes, the most meaningful presents aren’t the ones that were on the list. I’ve led a tremendously blessed life. I suspect that most of us have. Growing up, my brother Greg and I would wait with Read more
Listen to this article: This year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is in the books. I come into the half-marathon each year with three goals. The first is to finish. The second is to finish in less than three hours. Read more
Listen to this article: I went to my first Teradata Partners User’s Group Conference in 1998 (back then it was the NCR Partners User’s Group Conference). We were considering migrating our data warehouse to Teradata, and a few of us Read more
Listen to this article: It’s a Thanksgiving dinner tradition in most families, where each person around the table shares something that they’re thankful for. Toward the top of just about everyone’s list are “family and friends.” We had a house Read more
Listen to this article: In the beginning there was language, and from language evolved grammar, and grammar begat sentence diagrams. It seems like the portion of the population that diagrammed sentences in school is like the portion of the population Read more
Listen to this article: We walked through the door of an otherwise unremarkable industrial park suite into a gymnasium-sized room packed full of shelves. The shelves were packed floor-to-ceiling with banker boxes. The banker boxes were packed full of documents. Read more
Listen to this article: In September and October, Salesforce, Bosch, Nestle, Target, UPS, and Amazon announced layoffs totaling nearly 100,000 positions. The rationales most often given were workforce reduction and AI. The 14,000 cuts at Amazon got particular attention. After Read more
Listen to this article: OK. You’ve convinced management to support a Data Products initiative. Maybe you want to do AI and not be one of the 95% that fail or underperform. Maybe you have an existing analytical environment that’s like Read more
Listen to this article: The vocabulary generator has been working overtime. Just last week I talked about Data Contracts. Here’s another: Data Trust. I predict that through 2028, 80% of S&P 1200 organizations will become curious about the meaning of Read more
Listen to this article: Here we go again. We seem to have an irresistible reflex to prepend “data” to every noun, verb, and adjective in the dictionary. Here’s another: Data Contract. My first thought, when I heard about Data Contracts, was Read more