Episodes
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #169 - From The Archives: How We Got Here
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
We’re currently taking a break for summer vacation and will be back with new episodes starting on July 28, 2021.
On this week’s episode of the 33 Tangents podcast, we’re going way back to the early days. This episode was originally published on June 8, 2018.
There are many careers for people to choose from that have a predefined path from beginning to end, starting with school and ending with retirement. What many of us have found is that Digital Analytics presents something different, a career and industry that is wide open with people from many different backgrounds and educational training. After getting frequently asked how they got into this career, Jason, Jon, and Jim decided to talk exactly about this this week. They talk about what they went to college for, what they planned to, and the choices that led them here.
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Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #165 - Analytics instrumentation & Implementation Lessons Learned
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
There is no better teacher than experience, which itself only comes with time.
On this week’s episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast, Jason and Jim talk about the lessons they were only able to learn through leading numerous analytics and marketing technology implementation projects over the years.
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Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #164 - The Real Cost of Context Switching and Multi-Tasking
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Many have become accustomed to rapidly bouncing from one item to the next that it is easy to lose sight of the cost of context switching.
How does context switching impact our ability to be productive? What is the hidden cost?
On this week’s episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast, Jim and Jason talk about what they’ve learned about interruptions, multi-tasking, & context switching over their careers and steps they’ve taken to limit it.
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Wednesday May 19, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #160 - Why Is “Grinding” The Only Way To Work?
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Hard, honest work in which you create value for your company & clients alike and grinding until burnout are not the same thing.
Why do people think that grinding as hard as you can for an indefinite amount of time is the only way to go?
Why is there this cognitive dissonance when people hear of alternative ways of working?
Why are people shamed for thinking that you can have fun and gain fulfillment in work without burning yourself out?
Why is burnout looked as a badge of honor?
On this week’s episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast, Jason and Jim talk about their experiences that have led them to search out a different way of working and their thoughts on why people think that being on the verge of burnout is the only way to work.
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Wednesday May 12, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #159 - Are Virtual Conferences The Future?
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
This episode was recorded while Adobe Summit 2021 was taking place with it being the second year that it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Is this the future of industry conferences? Will they return, but in a scaled-down (read: cheapened) form that’s half in-person and half virtual?
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason talk about concerns they have with virtual industry events becoming the norm, how conferences are more than just keynotes & breakout sessions, as well as some fun stories from the past.
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Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #154 - Data That Is Nothing More Than A Distraction
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
We’ve all experienced the situation with a client where we know the data they are talking about is nothing more than a distraction. It can be data that they have identified as needing to be collected or data they already collect.
When asked about it, you get the response that “just might need it in the future”.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason talk about their experience with this, the risks, and the warning signs that the data will either be a distraction or a new toy that isn’t used in 3 months.
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Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
It seems like there is a great deal of talk about the importance of learning from mistakes. The problem with that however is that most people are so fearful that they do everything they can to either avoid making mistakes or to hide them when they do happen. People do not feel encouraged to take calculated risks that will provide opportunities to learn?
Why is this the case? Why is there talk about it but fear when faced with it? How can this overall mindset within an organization impact the testing organization runs and the degree to which the testing tools are used?
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason tackle the topic of making mistakes, why people are fearful to take risks, why most organizations are barely scratching the surface with their testing program.
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim are joined by Rick Hall to talk about analytics and remote work.
Rick Hall is a software entrepreneur focused on the analytics market for more than 30 year. He has led the development of over a dozen software products and taken several companies from the early stage to an eventual sale. Most recently he led a group in the purchase of Aginity in March of 2020 and is currently serving as CEO.
Aginity’s mission is to empower individuals, teams, and departments to realize the full potential of enterprise analytics. Aginity provides the industry’s only active analytic catalog solution for data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and business users, enabling them to interact with their data and analytic code in a whole new way. Aginity was an early innovator in Analytics Management and launched Aginity Pro early this year.
Episode Highlights
- [1:10] - Introductions.
- [5:30] - Sustainable Analytics.
- [12:36] - How important is it that organizations have a central person responsible for data accuracy.
- [26:15] - The future of retail and in-store analytics.
- [32:10] - The challenges organizations are seeing with privacy coompliance.
- [35:00] - Remote work.
- [43:30] - Impact of remote work on small towns and rural areas.
- [52:00] - What Aginity does to build camaraderie with a remote team.
- [57:00] - Wrap up.
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Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #146 - Answering Listener Questions
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
How do you explain to your organization’s leadership that the work involved with an analytics implementation is never finished? That it’s not something that is “set it and forget it”?
How do you tell a client that their analytics foundation is incredibly flawed and needs to be rebuilt?
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason answer some questions from listeners.
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
33 Tangents - Episode #144 - Dealing with Stress and Burnout
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Stress is a normal part of life and under normal circumstances, it ebbs and flows. If you’re not careful however, feeling stressed can lead to burnout. You often don’t realize it until it’s too late.
On this week’s episode, Jim and Jason take a detour from a planned topic to discuss some steps they’ve taken recently to deal with them.
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