Bad creativity
Creativity isn’t always a good thing. In fact, there are numerous areas where you shouldn’t be creative.
Bad creativity:
Not remembering dataset should be cleaned, and so you create a new process each time.
Not having a standard color palette, and so you spend an hour with the color wheel each time you build a new data viz report.
Not having an established naming convention for database tables and so you thought up a different standard each time you create a table.
Not having a shared place for documentation so sometimes you write documentation in Notion, others in a Google Doc, others in a Wiki, and other times in Slack.
I could go on.
Don’t be creative in these areas.
Good creativity:
The questions you ask when exploring a new problem.
The workflow design for an analytics experience.
Setting tactics and strategies for hitting your goals next quarter.
Options for how AI can improve the work experience for your team.
Some things we should automate, standardize, and scale.
Others we need to innovate, create waste, and explore.
I’m here,
Sawyer
p.s. The Nyquist family is out of town for vacation for the next several days. It will be quieter here on the daily email front than normal while I enjoy some busy family fun.
