Life Outside the Bay Area Bubble - Atoms, Bits, and the Resurgence of Detroit
The Weekend Windup #35 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Joe Reis
My rants on data, technology, and business
Notes From the Field: AI, Energy Shocks & the End of the Old Playbook (Spring 2026 Edition)
The Weekend Windup #34 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
The Organizational State of Data Engineering
A new pulse survey on what organizational dysfunction in data work actually looks like.
Why 90% of Data Teams Are Failing at Data Modeling
The Weekend Windup #33 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Data Engineering in 2026 w/ Zach Wilson
The Weekend Windup #32 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Why Tokenmaxxing is For Fools. A Rant on Fake Productivity.
The Weekend Windup #31 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
WTF is a Software Moat in 2026?
The Weekend Windup #30 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy
The Weekend Windup #29 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
The Mythos Threshold
A speculative timeline through 2028 of what happens when the AI model starts thinking for itself
Do Fundamentals Still Matter in the Age of AI?
The Weekend Windup #28 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Surviving the AI Grind: Token Junkies, Hustle Culture, and Stressed-Out Leaders w/ Eric Weber
The Weekend Windup #27 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
AI Is Here, But The Hard Parts Haven't Changed
The Weekend Windup #27 - Results from the March 2026 Practical Data Pulse Survey
I’m at SFO waiting for my flight - Ask me anything
A recording from Joe Reis's live video
The Job Market Isn't Dead, But it Seems Far Pickier These Days
The Weekend Windup #26 - Reflections, Cool Reads, Events, and More
The Buzzword Industrial Complex
The Weekend Windup #25 - Reflections, Cool Reads, Events, and More
Gartner Declares 2026 The Year of Context™: Everything You Know Is Now a Context Product
A sorta-satire in which the analyst firm that killed Data Mesh with Data Fabric now prepares to kill Data Fabric with something even more abstract.
Lessons I Had to Learn the Hard Way, 49th Edition
The Weekend Windup #24 - Reflections, Cool Reads, Events, and More
The Reckoning Is Already Here
The Weekend Windup #23 - Reflections, Cool Reads, Events, and More
2028 - THE GREAT DATA RECKONING
A Macro Memo on the Collapse of the Data Industrial Complex
The Insanity of Data Education
The Weekend Windup #22 - Reflections, Cool Reads, Events, and More
