Some beautiful moments hanging with and celebrating (most of) my team at Coalesce. The conference became an unexpected team bonding offsite 🥹

Millennial MCM converging with Gen-Z's maximalism is setting quality product design / ergonomics back centuries (this isn’t a mug; it’s a bowl with a handle)

In this clip from our Mina The Hollower documentary, Yacht Club Games developer Alec Faulkner (Alec Faulkner) improves a lackluster combat encounter via level design. Watch the documentary: youtu.be/Z6WWGkVf3uU #gamedev

Careers in data are rarely linear. Most times, it takes a lot of tenacity and internal drive which syd outlines in her first (of many!!) blog posts. If you’re starting a career in data, I highly recommend following her blog which covers her data journey in real time 😮‍💨

when i moved to LA, i thought i finally found a place to plant roots. recently, i realized it might not be and this sent me into a spiral. for ~4 months, i've been thinking + writing abt this analogy. i wrote it for anyone feeling lost or uncertain tinyurl.com/4x9jewt6

re: mastodon. let's say, hypothetically, someone doesn't know what it is nor how it works nor why everyone has @[email protected]. i can barely handle IG, email inbox, and texting back. is mastodon an entire social media learning curve all over again?

in jan 2022, i wrote a letter to myself to read at the end of the year. i opened it a few days ago and felt a wave of unexpected emotions. this post is about new year's resolutions, measuring the intangible, and cherishing yourself. ericalouie.substack.com/p/measuring-em…

society if all timestamps were in UTC

I'm on the Roundup this week with my report from GenAI. What's going on and how should data people be thinking about this? It's been a fascinating, exciting, kind of eerie d̶e̶c̶a̶d̶e̶ week in AI news. Lmk what you think roundup.getdbt.com/p/analytics-in…

“Understanding love, in the form you ultimately need, is often a continuous process of experiencing, investing, hurting, healing, and repeating. But my gosh, what a wonderful privilege we have.” ericalouie.substack.com/p/a-case-for-l…

moving entire net worth to neopoints

Come to the first LA dbt Meetup! When: 20 March (Monday, 5-7pm) Where: Sorry Not Sorry Excited to connect with the LA dbt community 🥹 this is the first of many, but don’t you want the clout behind attending the first? I’ll see y’all there ✨ meetup.com/los-angeles-db…

Disclaimer: I’m an AI boomer But, I crave human connection via personal expression, candid discourse, and how your experiences/thought patterns came to those conclusions. Seeing kids ask ChatGPT to make jokes, write papers, and give responses/ideas/etc. feels awfully empty 😔

Over 5 years, I started using dbt. In that time, an incredible community united and grew. And, in parallel, the Analytics Engineer. This Thurs, join the convo as we discuss the FIRST Analytics Engineering Report. And what an honor to be alongside Emily & Ganz 🥹 See ya there!

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is data twitter still A Thing? The 2nd annual State of Analytics Engineering report is out! Stoked to join Amada Echeverría and Adam Stone. We're discussing the results, answering Qs, and I'll be convincing y'all NYers to move to LA! tinyurl.com/5t5xburm