Silent mode for some weeks and plenty of refactoring for the tracking plan generator. Major change, swapped Supabase for Convex and Sonnet 3.7 for 4.0. It generated this for a Miro use case:

Puh - the new Propagandhi album is going deep... Really good, but completely different from what I thought it would be.

Good day - part 2. First successful deployment of the home-built course platform. Some more tests, and we can move the people from Circle to it.

Good day - I generated the first test tracking plan via the app. My usual test case: Miro. 30s, 6 entities, 38 events (maybe a bit too many), 45 properties. Quality - quite close to my manual designs. Next step - make the table look nicer.

Incremental with SQLmesh - oh la la.

I guess my version of midlife crisis is thinking about buying band shirts again - I know a mild version. Talking to Johan van de Werken (not if you are on BS) does not help.

Ok, I am pushing it now - create tracking plans with multiple models, synthetize and do cherry picking to get your perfect tracking plan. But beware, I will show warnings when create more than 20 events. This is an opinionated software.

It looks so innocent in that stage - I could keep it for simplicity like this - but there is this urge for individual UI that cannot be controlled.

I really enjoyed Juliana's latest post about unit economics - julianajackson.substack.com/p/unit-econo...

Why Unit Economics Outlast Growth Metrics

When capital is cheap, any chart can look heroic. When markets tighten, only businesses with positive unit economics breathe easy.

julianajackson.substack.com

Unit economics is the adult version of analytics.

This pixel art was already worth working on a course withJuliana J. We plan to launch a course with the monumental title: Strategic Analytics. Join the waitlist here: lp.timodechau.com/strategic_an...

Something I always wanted to have in a tracking plan tool: auto-population of descriptions and examples. Now I added it to the HipsterDataPlan. My current optimization metric is time to the v1 version of a tracking plan. This saves me 30-60m easily.

Ok, a year ago, I would have said a definite no to building a tracking plan/setup tool. But things have changed. I now have a way to generate really high-quality tracking plans with GenAI, so now I'll build the frontend for it. I'll keep you posted.

One thing that I can't get out of my head. What if most digital products are compromises made too early? You rush to product market fit, but is your product that good to make a difference in the long term? Did you start to bake in features you are not passionate about because they seem reasonable?

@evidence.dev @hughess.bsky.social - Your Slack channel can only be joined with an evidence email address. I have some questions about chaining source sql files..

Watching ChatGPTs Operator creating slides for you is definitely Sloth mode work.

The moment when you paste the real final book cover into the production file

This new one took a bit more research than usual. Coming to your inbox in a few days.

Podcast cover work has started ... it's coming closer.

Testing authoredup.com for LinkedIn posts. Since LI is not working so well anymore for real conversations. It becomes more just a top of the funnel place to drop some idea content and learning snacks. Then I can also move to schedule the posts.

AuthoredUp - All-in-one LinkedIn Content Creation Tool

Supercharge your LinkedIn growth with a LinkedIn content creation tool. Create drafts, format, preview, and monitor your LinkedIn growth effortlessly.

authoredup.com

Ok. Should I try mechanical ergo keyboards? I spent some time in the rabbit hole yesterday. And I am tempted. But I am also impatient. So I need to prepare myself for the journey.

So my first virtual marketing team session is over with everyone developing a 6,12,30 weeks strategy for their area and let the virtual CMO review it. The good part for me was that it forced me to think a lot about positioning and audiences.

I am experimenting this weekend with some specific role chats in ChatGPT forming a virtual marketing team. I am interested to find out how it can help with brainstorming and focus for my marketing efforts.

Do you record videos to explain dashboards? Lately I started to do this more consistently, to have a 3m explainer video describing the purpose of the dashboard and what each chart is showing.

As a proud Danish resident - I think, it is a great idea to purchase California from the US, so of course, I signed the petition: denmarkification.com and you can do it too!

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?

Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever

denmarkification.com

Started recording my @metabase.com videos for my BI tools deep-dive series. First impressions: decent onboarding, got my first chart in 15min. The videos will be released next week!

Ok, I will start working on a longer post about separating data collection and analytics. This topic has now come up for the third time in a week.

Browser testing again - today Opera Air. I like Opera and usually, at some point, come back to it and use it as the main browser for 3-4 months (until I get lured away by some others). Let's see how the wellbeing browser works for me.

From my latest blog post: Progress happens on an account and on a user level. I picked the Asana example of using workflows. This can happen on org level but also on a user level. Especially the user in comparison to the org shows the wide adoption level. https://buff.ly/42CrHFX

From my last blog post: Turn metrics into motivation! Build an "automation score" for Asana users based on their workflow usage. Instead of just measuring adoption, you could drive motivation to use more workflows for repetitive tasks Pure metrics → activation tool.

Combining your Product Strategy with your Analytics Implementation - Tracking Plan for Asana

Analytics can feel deceptively simple when you start with a product like Asana. Track some tasks, measure completion rates, count active users - done, right? But as your product evolves beyond its…

buff.ly