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Jan 20Liked by Benn Stancil

at some point every friday afternoon everyone on my team spends like 10 minutes talking about your latest blog post

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Jan 19Liked by Benn Stancil

Yet another long-time data company preaching the faith:

"We empower businesses to realize transformative outcomes by bringing their data and AI to life. When properly unlocked, data becomes a living and trusted asset that's democratized across the organization."

TO LIFE I SAY! TO LIFE!!!

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxggSu3VV65rcBkGc8DLgveYluORVgMSiM?si=5wepS-rctZhpH8-X

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You have talked about accountants and data in the past - and I’m thinking the accountants view of data is more facts than faith. I wonder if there will be a swing back toward data is accountability, data is a clear view of what did or did not get done. Did you make budget or turn a profit? Did you hit your sales number? It’s easy to brush by things like that as table stakes and of course everyone is doing that stuff well. Then announce everyone should be doing predictive analytics and AI... but I’m here to say most everyone does not seem to have it together with basic metrics and goals - atleast from my personal experience.

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Benn as Naval says “ if u live long u become a philisoper” one more data tag line from my company “ Human data science company” …… good read mate

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Jan 22Liked by Benn Stancil

Data is just information. We're naturally drawn to faith that promises to organize all the information we perceive about our reality into a coherent narrative. One that will allow us to navigate to success or salvation. We are selling the same promise to organizations. We will transform the noise of your reality into meaningful narratives that let you navigate towards growth / profit.

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Jan 20·edited Jan 20Liked by Benn Stancil

TL;DR

I can be selfish but that's an aside. People built lots of things. Some of them were good and markets are different now. Weird social things also happened - that is another aside.

Now people can build better things because time is linear and now is later than then. In theory, we can only improve. Something good will be built, we just don't know what yet.

How'd I do?

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we need Ryan Radia on that Divorce stat

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Jan 19Liked by Benn Stancil

deeply satisfying and comedic

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