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On a panel this week, we discussed the topic of career progressions. It got me thinking about the various ways people navigate their careers. Here's my advice if you're trying to move up the corporate ladder, frustrated in your current role, or want to jump ship and do your own thing.

Yulia Pavlova (Director of Technical Innovation at Thomson Reuters) joins me to chat about the role of AI in disinformation/misinformation in the media, communicating complex topics to nontechnical people, and much more.



I personally consider the current state of the media as one of the central challenges today, and I learned a lot chatting with Yulia, who's innovating in this space.



LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuliapavlovaphd/

Is data modeling a waste of time? I meet a number of people who say it is. In this episode, I dissect some of the arguments against data modeling, and give reasons why it matters more than ever today.

Safiyy Momen and I chat about the good and bad of the Modern Data Stack, controlling cloud costs, boring engineering, and much more.



LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiyy-momen/

Gordon Wong and I chat about why most data teams aren't that valuable, and ways data teams can deliver more value.

Just got off the plane from Spain, and I'm quite jet lagged. Nonetheless, here's your Friday rant.



In this episode, I chat about an experience I had with someone telling me Python is a slow language. If you can't tell, I think programming language wars are dumb, and I give some reasons why.