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July 2026
The Unforced Error: How European Management Is Rationing Its Way Into Irrelevance
Why does high-wage Europe treat productivity software as the scarce resource? On the managerial blindspot that rations $30 tools in a high-wage economy, and the Draghi Report's warning that the continent is losing the AI century.
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July 2026
How to Grow with AI: Outsource the Tactics, not the Strategy
Three outcomes of working with AI: a virtuous cycle for those who delegate tactics and keep learning, stagnation for those who opt out, and a vicious cycle for those who outsource the thinking itself. On staying in charge while letting the machine do the rest.
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July 2026
Excel All the Way Down: Building an FP&A Data Platform with Power Query, Power Pivot, and CUBE Functions
After a decade of SQL, Python, and R, I took a finance role where none of them is available. What I found inside the Microsoft stack surprised me: a full dimensional data warehouse, hiding in plain sight — with Excel as both the kitchen and the dining room.
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May 2026
They Asked About Marginal Returns. The Data Could Only Tell Them Cross-Tabs.
Why dashboarding has replaced analytics in most data teams — and what would fix it. Notes from forty interviews in Prague and a decade of working in the US data industry.
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April 2026
From Harvard Dissertation to ECRQ Article: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at ECE Publishing
Behind the scenes of our new ECRQ paper on Head Start and dual language learners — three peer reviews, two journals, and the long road from a Harvard dissertation to a published article.