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Thoughts on data democratization, software engineering, and biotech innovation.

Data science (21)

• Tuesday Tactics: The Excel Export Feature Request - December 30, 2025

• The Tool Consolidation Paradox: Why Fewer Tools Often Means More Complexity - December 19, 2025

• Tuesday Tactics: The 10-Minute Test - December 16, 2025

• Tuesday Tactics: Sunset Before You Scale - December 09, 2025

• Tuesday Tactics: The No Jira Ticket Rule - December 02, 2025

• Nobody Owns the Data Warehouse (And That’s Why It’s Broken) - December 01, 2025

• Tuesday Tactics: The 3-Question Requirements Filter - November 18, 2025

• Data Stewards vs. Data Scientists: Why Biotech Needs Both (But Hires Only One) - November 03, 2025

• The Data Layer Guardrails Are The Key To Scalable Self-Service - October 30, 2025

• The Success Criteria Question: Why I Don’t Start with Requirements - October 27, 2025

• Why Every Series A Biotech Hits the Same Data Wall - October 23, 2025

• Force Multiplication Through Simple Solutions - September 22, 2025

• The Self-Service Data Paradox: Why Good Tools Create More Questions Than Answers - September 15, 2025

• Where Data Goes to Die (And How to Save It) - August 28, 2025

• The One Question That Changed How I Build Tools - August 18, 2025

• Why Every Biotech Needs a Data Steward - August 04, 2025

• Reactive vs Proactive Bioinformatics - July 28, 2025

• The Bioinformatics Triangle: Memory, Elegance, and Speed 🧬 - July 15, 2025

• The Power of Strategic Data Infrastructure - July 13, 2025

• Enabling non-technical Users - July 03, 2025

• A Case for Data Democratization - July 01, 2025

Software engineering (12)

• Tuesday Tactics: Build vs Buy Red Flag - January 06, 2026

• The Incremental Migration Pattern (Or: How to Rebuild the Plane While Flying It) - December 08, 2025

• The Explicit Out-of-Scope Section: My Secret Weapon for Project Trust - November 24, 2025

• Write the Test First (Even for Your Science) - November 17, 2025

• The Strategic Value of Simple Solutions - November 10, 2025

• Your POC Is Not A Platform - October 20, 2025

• The API Strategy Gap in Research - September 29, 2025

• Every ‘quick fix’ in research code is a future investment decision - September 18, 2025

• The Engineering Report That Never Gets Written - August 25, 2025

• The Post-Mortem No One Wants to Do (But Everyone Should) - August 21, 2025

• The Software Engineering Principle No One Teaches In Bioinformatics - August 07, 2025

• Code Review Culture in Research Labs - July 18, 2025

Career development (5)

• Interviewing Is Networking in Disguise - December 10, 2025

• Managing Up Isn’t About Office Politics - September 11, 2025

• Team Building Isn’t About Trust Falls - September 08, 2025

• The Art of Saying No (Without Losing Friends) - September 04, 2025

• How to Turn Stakeholders from Obstacles into Advocates - September 02, 2025

Data engineering (6)

• Software Doesn’t Age Like Wine: Why Your Data Tools Need Maintenance - December 15, 2025

• The Only Five Metrics That Actually Matter for Data Pipelines - December 11, 2025

• Data Pipelines That Scientists Can Debug (Without Calling You at 9 PM) - November 13, 2025

• The Universal Pattern Behind Scalable Data Systems - October 16, 2025

• Multi-Source Data Integration - October 06, 2025

• Managing Data Engineering Consultants Across 4 Time Zones: What Actually Worked - October 02, 2025

Research (5)

• The Power of Listening Across Teams - July 31, 2025

• Design Docs for Bioinformatics - July 24, 2025

• Code Review Culture in Research Labs - July 18, 2025

• The Bioinformatics Triangle: Memory, Elegance, and Speed 🧬 - July 15, 2025

• Why Computational Biologists Need Lab Notebooks - July 10, 2025

Biotech (11)

• Tuesday Tactics: Data Steward ≠ Data Janitor - December 23, 2025

• Testing BWIB Cross-Posting: A Quick Example - December 22, 2025

• The Twelve Days of Scale-Up - December 18, 2025

• The Five Signals That Scream ‘Hire a Data Person Now’ - December 04, 2025

• Thanksgiving in Biotech: A Survival Guide - November 27, 2025

• Tuesday Tactics: Your First Data Hire Signal - November 25, 2025

• I Fixed The Same Bug Three Times (No One Noticed) - November 20, 2025

• Change Management in small biotech: The ‘slow down to speed up’ paradox - September 25, 2025

• The Hidden Bottleneck in AI-Driven Drug Design - August 11, 2025

• Build vs Buy in Biotech - July 21, 2025

• The Power of Strategic Data Infrastructure - July 13, 2025

Project management (1)

• The Sphere of Influence in Project Management - October 09, 2025