Human connection
Online communication is noisier than ever.
Personal connection is rarer than ever.
This is true in your professional life and personal life.
Your teammates are overwhelmed by impersonal content distribution and an inhuman culture of profits and layoffs.
Your career seems to hang on the arbitrary AI reviewing your resume.
Your friends and family are longing for a technology-free connection and someone to care about their ideas, dreams, and emotions.
I enjoy limited pieces of social media (mostly LinkedIn). But my main goal is to move past the noise of public broadcasts to see the humans behind that platform.
I write this daily email for you. Not to add to the noise in your life, but hopefully to spark creativity and connection.
And in 2024 I’m focused on creating spaces for humans to connect. For me at The Data Shop, that means data people.
Three things are coming up that I need to tell you about. Spaces that allow us to move beyond broadcasts and more human connection.
1. The Data Roundtable: Free Livestream Tuesday, February 27th at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET
Along with James Serra and Ahmad Chamy we are answering your questions about Data Architecture, Data Leadership, and Business Intelligence. Streaming live on Linkedin. Link to follow next week.
2. Free Office Hours: March 4th, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
*** Open to email subscriber list only ***
My virtual office doors are open today for an hour if you have any questions on anything data. Or if you just want to talk about your spring break plans, tapping maple trees, remote work, or the 2024 Presidential Election (JK, not going there), I’m here for that too.
Drop in whenever and stay for however long you’d like.
There’s no catch. No sales pitch. No hard feelings if no one comes.
Just trying to help where help might be needed.
Link to follow.
3. The Technical and Strategic Data Leader - Beginning March 12th
A six-week cohort-based learning experience for Data Leaders, Data Architects, or those responsible for data at their company. This experience is highly interactive between the course mentors and participants. Expect to actively engage with your peers throughout the course.
I hope to connect with some of you at one of these three events.
Sawyer
from The Data Shop
