Making data mistakes

How to find a job through a recruiter

‌‌Every one of the dozen or so job offers I’ve received in London in the last 10 years has been through a friend’s recommendation, or through recruiters. If you have a friend who works for the company or knows someone senior, a

Management

How to make good, quick, collective decisions

This is a recipe for making good, quick, collective decisions: Write a proposal with: a clear statement of the goals you're trying to achieve (always start with the goals!), your suggested approach, and maybe an argument for why it's a good idea. (A Google

Software

Technical debt isn't like financial debt

I hope you weren’t hoping for a blanket answer to the question of exactly when to pay off technical debt. If you were, the answer is Tuesday. Almost all interesting decisions are about risks and trade-offs. This is a framework for making our intuitions about technical debt more rigorous.

Management

Running a Premortem

A Premortem refocused the hardest death-march I’ve been on, and another one years later was a key step in planning for a complicated (and ultimately successful) major fund-raise. If all goes well, it’ll help highlight your biggest fears, and proactively figure out steps for how to defuse them.

Data Science

How to build a model that performs at chance

I’m going to tell you about a horrible screwup. Not my first and not my last, but a happy one, because although it was excruciating it was also instructive.

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