33 Tangents is a podcast that covers a wide range of topics from digital analytics to business and technology to remote work.
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Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
In the business world, there are two schools of thought about a person’s work and personal lives and it’s a constant debate. One side of the argument believes that you should keep your personal life out and completely separate from your work life. The other believes that combining the two help build strong bonds with those that you work with.
- Is there a right way or wrong way?
- Are there merits to both?
- What benefits can you see with both approaches?
On this week's episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast, Jason and Jim tackle this topic and cite examples from their career which have shaped their approach.
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Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
On previous episodes we’ve discussed how digital analytics does not have a seat at the big table in organizations. It’s an afterthought to development and management doesn’t care until something breaks and it’s too late.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim are joined by Dipesh Shah who provides his perspective on why this is the case. Dipesh is a Marketing Data & Tech Consultant with 12 years experience based in London, UK.
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Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
In many organizations, the terms consultant and contractor are use interchangeably. There are, however, major distinctions between those two roles. Each comes with its own set of expectations and level of engagement.
What are the major differences between the two?
What does it mean to hire a contractor?
What is expected when you bring on a consultant?
Why do organizations conflate the two?
On this week's episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast, Jason, Jenn, and Jim dig into these questions, discuss the need and value of both of the roles, and what they've seen happen when there isn't a clear distinction.
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
The events of 2020 have introduced new ways of doing many things, especially work and school. While these changes are dramatic and disorienting, they are also opportunities to try something different.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason discuss what they’ve seen many do and the chances they’ve taken in light of having remote work and school thrust upon them.
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
The concept of unlimited PTO has always been polarizing. Some see it as a great benefit while others see it as a bait and switch. In an episode in July 2019 we asked the question if unlimited time off it truly unlimited. Recently there was a debate on Twitter on the actual benefit of unlimited PTO which made us want to revisit the topic.
Do employees really see the benefit of unlimited PTO? Is it everything that is promised? Are there employers that genuinely want their employees to have the flexibility they need with time off? Do employers have ulterior motives with it?
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents Jim and Jason decided to dive back into the concept of unlimited PTO and what it means to offer it as a benefit.
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
When we have an idea, we envision the perfect version of the outcome. This vision, while inspiring, can also create a state of paralysis. We don’t want to produce anything less than that pristine vision not realizing that the imperfect iterations that come before are necessary to reach that state.
What is the difference between imperfect and incomplete? Why do we often miss that so many others had to take small, iterative steps to get where they are now? On this week’s episode of the 33 Tangents podcast, Jim and Jason discuss getting started and preventing procrastination.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
We’ve seen the trend of customers wanting more of a “relationship” with the brands & companies they buy from for quite some time now. Whether that be showing how they feel through social media or searching out companies that share the same values as them.
2020 has presented a whole new set of challenges for companies trying to build that connection with the ability to have in-person interactions made very limited or not possible at all.
This week we’re joined by Charlie Roberson, the Head of Project Delivery at Verbate. Verbate offers their clients a simple to use, affordable video survey platform so that they can hear directly from their customers. Verbate is a distributed company with employees located both in the UK and Australia
Earlier this year we were joined by Matt Barnett, the founder of Bonjoro. Verbate is the precursor to Bonjoro.
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Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, we continue the conversation we had a few weeks ago regarding the proper ratio of technology to people.
As a traditional analyst, a person would set aside 70%-80% of my time to clean, wrangle, re-align data. Digital analytics promised the analyst that it would be solved for and the need to spend so much time prepping would be reduced drastically. We’re treating digital analytics like traditional analytics and forcing the analyst to do a massive amount of prep work.
Why is this the case? Have the web analytics tools failed or has the prep work just moved from one area to another?
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Working remotely offers a great deal of freedom and flexibility which can take many different forms. It can be working from various different co-working locations or coffee shops so the person is not always at the home office all the way up to taking extended road trips with the family and doing work along the way.
The problem that is faced by many remote workers is that they often get buried in their work they forget to take advantage of it. Instead feeling from the corporate office they get tied to the home office.
On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim sit down with returning guest Evan LaPointe, the founder and CEO of Core Consulting as well as the creator of Satellite (now Adobe DTM) that was acquired in an industry defining acquisition by Adobe in 2013. Evan recently took a family road-trip all the while working remotely and as his children attended remote school.
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Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Why is QA viewed as tasks spread across multiple practices in an organization instead of viewed in a holistic manner? Why don’t organizations view data governance as it’s own practice within an organization?
This week we have returning guest Eric Richter joining us to continue the conversation around data quality. Eric is the Founding Partner and Chief Data Exorcist at the Dataquake Group, whose mission is to help companies rethink and focus on data quality.
Eric focuses on continual improvement of data integrity processes and test strategies. Eric is the Founder and Chief Data Exorcist of Dataquake, and before that he was the Director of Data Quality Solutions for Keystone Solutions.
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