Ideas

What I've learned, written down.

Opinions from eight years of building data platforms and leading the teams around them. Most of them started as something I got wrong, or watched go wrong, at work.

If you want to know how I'd run your data team, this is a better guide than my CV.

All writing 7 essays
The pressure stops with me.Leadership · September 2026 · 4 min Work out how the company behaves before you give it a process.Organisations · September 2026 · 3 min We built most of our warehouse with AI. I'm not sure it was faster.AI · September 2026 · 4 min How data teams earn trust, and how they lose it.Leadership · July 2026 · 3 min Developing engineers who don't need managing.Leadership · July 2026 · 3 min Pick the problem before the tool.Engineering · July 2026 · 3 min The conversation that never happened.Leadership · June 2026 · 2 min