It’s not “do good work and be successful.” It’s doing good work, talking about the work, figuring out how to get your work to the right people, accepting that good work is slower than bad work and finding a path through that anyways
Caitlin Hudon
@beeonaposy.bsky.social
Data + product + books + parenting. DS @ Figma; blogging @ caitlinhudon.com
Every day is a great day to listen to Cake, but today is especially great
The Data Mishaps Night is awesome & has the vibe I think #dataBS is all about XD #dataSky / #databsky & #pyData you can come too ; )
Caitlin Hudon@beeonaposy.bsky.social · last yr.SF DATA PEOPLE: Call for submissions! 🍌 The 5th annual Data Mishaps Night is happening IRL this year in SF on June 3rd. We want to hear about your data mistakes and how you learned from them! Submit your story here by May 15: hextech.typeform.com/to/TIbjWEdi
SF DATA PEOPLE: Call for submissions! 🍌 The 5th annual Data Mishaps Night is happening IRL this year in SF on June 3rd. We want to hear about your data mistakes and how you learned from them! Submit your story here by May 15: hextech.typeform.com/to/TIbjWEdi
Thrilled to share that the 5th annual #DataMishapsNight is happening in-person this year on June 3rd in SF, sponsored by our friends at Hex! The event will be free, not recorded, and a great time. If you're interested in speaking, please submit your story here! hextech.typeform.com/to/TIbjWEdi
Great read on good and bad user experiences with AI: koomen.dev/essays/horse...
AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev
An essay about bad AI app design
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Has anyone written / shared / open-sourced an AI strategy for data teams? 👀
a bit more #Severance data please enjoy all analyses equally 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/ and for my #rstats friends: 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/
This is completely bonkers and I want an entire documentary just about how they made it
kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y agoOh this is just *delightful*: for the opening of his documentary on the history of music on SNL, Questlove produced “a high-speed, six-minute DJ mix of SNL music highlights”. So good you’ll want to watch it way more than just once. [kottke.org]
Tis the season! Sharing an all-time favorite analysis, my search for the most depressing Christmas song: www.caitlinhudon.com/posts/2017/1...
Blue Christmas: A data-driven search for the most depressing Christmas song — Haystacks by Caitlin Hudon
Using data to find the most depressing Christmas song (and rooting for 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas').
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Every year I buy a bunch of gift cards to local restaurants as gifts for family members. Every year I’m surprised that only like 10-20% of the local restaurants I find have a way to purchase a gift card directly on the website, so for every 15 sites I visit, I’m getting like 1 or 2 gift cards.
I'm excited to announce @skyseed.fund, the world's first incubator & fund exclusively focused on Bluesky and @atproto.com. We're just getting started but have $1 Million in committed capital, and will be doing developer grants as well as pre-seed/seed funding. www.prweb.com/releases/ope...
Open Source Veteran Launches Skyseed - First Ecosystem Fund and Incubator for the Bluesky AT Protocol
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Open Source veteran entrepreneur Peter Wang today launches Skyseed Fund, the world's first venture fund and incubator focused exclusively...
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Field report from Munich: the Christmas markets are indeed magical 🎄 💫
Just landed in Munich, Santa was there, and the bag handlers (elves, I assume?) put these Santa chocolates in the handle of each one. I’ve never been so delighted in my life.
Listening was very on-brand this year. Everywhere has been my top jam lately. Cake forever. Being Dead was my fave band discovery at SXSW. Loved Texas Hold ‘Em. Taylor remains queen.
Annual reminder that Spotify Wrapped is a great example of how you can build a fantastic data product without ML or AI
The #1 piece of clothing I wish I owned is my HS math team shirt, which was a navy and white polo with a number on the back. The number was the same for everyone, 2^0, because “second to none, we’re number one”. Absolute perfection.
Today in balancing parenting and working during a holiday week, a new record: school starts at 9am, parade at 11:10am and dismissal right afterwards 🫠
Perfect day for new Father John Misty, thank you universe
I’ve had a bunch of referral requests/questions lately which is great because I’d love to refer and work with you wonderful people. Thing is, I can’t refer folks after they’ve applied. If you’re interested, best to reach out before applying! I know every co is different so wanted to PSA :)
Heck yeah we A/B test all our designs: 𝗔sk stakeholders which idea they like 𝗕uild that one
My husband just told me that he always knows when I’m going to send a text because I say the “hey” to start out loud 💀
Spending a good chunk of my week on financial forecasting, something I weirdly love but haven’t done much of since leaving early startup world (so it’s novel and a nice change of pace right now). Sharing some observations!
