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Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.
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Show Notes:
- Benn’s Substack
- It’s time to build
- github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
- Disband the analytics team
- A gambler’s guide to giving talks
- gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx
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Chapters
1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)
2. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:01:14)
3. Start the show! (00:05:37)
4. Welcoming Benn Stancil (00:05:46)
5. Defining "modern data stack" (00:11:50)
6. It's time to build (00:16:03)
7. Opportunity in the slowdown (00:19:51)
8. A. Is there enough money? (00:25:59)
9. B. How do you pick a target? (00:27:57)
10. The hardest parts of Mode (00:30:28)
11. Sponsor: Retool (00:32:26)
12. Disband the analytics team (00:36:58)
13. Is it all worth it (00:43:59)
14. What's interesting these days (00:46:30)
15. What's next for Benn (00:49:30)
16. Sponsor: Neon (00:51:42)
17. A gambler's guide to giving talks (00:55:14)
18. Take the risk (01:01:43)
19. Benn with two Ns (01:08:38)
20. Coming up next (01:10:03)
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