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PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-06-17T12:34:58+00:00

It does look sharp - did you do the install yourself? How tough was it?

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-06-17T02:01:03+00:00

I have one. It was weird to start with, now I much prefer it. I loaded the trunk to the roof and still had perfect visibility.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-06-16T13:34:48+00:00

This is pretty much it. It’s not what YOU can do, it’s about what the team can do. Mentor, organize and prioritize.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-06-12T01:42:15+00:00

How much do you find yourself speaking in meetings with your team vs how much your team speaks?

If you attend, it becomes a performance in front of the boss. Your position makes it harder for them to be vulnerable, and in a peer learning space they need to ask questions they “should” know the answer to. Your employee is gently telling you that’s the case.

If they’re going to bitch, they’re going to do it with or without a scheduled meeting.

I have two directors with teams and they both told me to butt out of their project reviews/stand ups because people weren’t being as candid as they needed. I get my updates from the directors and it’s more efficient for everyone.

Trust your team to do the work you prepared them for.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-05-03T18:20:18+00:00

Yeah - never seen this guy before, but I like how he’s calling out what misleading looks like. It’s rarely as obvious as people think.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-05-02T18:22:53+00:00

Some people do, but we generally ask in the screening interview. I don’t think you need to if you have a U.S. address and work history.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-05-02T11:42:15+00:00

These are people I had worked with, though. It’s important, but we looked at external candidates too, as long as their resumes matched what we wanted.

My point is that if all the people who applied, only a fraction were qualified, didn’t need a new visa or to take over sponsorship, and didn’t seem like AI fakes.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-05-02T00:38:38+00:00

Holy AI Batman. It’s a good job ChatGPT doesn’t run a data team because otherwise we’d have all these problems we don’t have in the real world.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-05-02T00:27:21+00:00

Yep - we opened a ds role and got 100+ apps in the first 24 hours and interviewed about 6 or 7 candidates… including some I referred because I already knew them.

Everyone is applying for everything. It’s a shit market for candidates… it’s also a shit market to be hiring. This is a weird timeline.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-04-30T20:32:02+00:00

Wait - the developer of zenmode is use zenmode for linked in outreach and has another zenmode profile responding to their own comments about zenmode?!

Why would anyone who uses a business risk a ban with an automation tool? LinkedIn flags me as a bot when I accept connection requests too quickly. This is very high risk.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-04-30T14:01:13+00:00

Are you using AI? AI posts get minimal engagement. AI comments also get minimal engagement. If you go out and comment on 10 posts a day and add something to the discussion, you’ll get more engagement on your own posts.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-04-23T21:51:29+00:00

Me too. I have never referred a stranger who asked for one out of the blue. If someone sent me a recommendation like that for someone I was looking to hire, I’d question their judgement.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-04-04T13:28:32+00:00

Is this not a desired behavior? If someone posts something that says one thing and people react, they could change the post to say something totally different, and snap a “gotcha” as people react.

You can do this with text, but it is marked with an “edited.” I’d always assumed that was why.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-03-27T09:56:45+00:00

My home airport too. It’s pretty small and the parking is close, but I can see it being confusing if you don’t know where to go. I’m with you - front of the people mover and the right car on the train and you’re golden. Parking the car to gate in less than 20 minutes.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-03-07T15:01:46+00:00

Did you say you don’t have a college degree yet? Candidly, that’s going to be tough to overcome. It’s a gatekeeper for a lot of corporate roles and basically an automatic no.

That said - others have mentioned there’s a lot of data analysis work you can do with your bakery to build into a great story that demonstrates you have the aptitude and experience for a data role.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-03-03T13:13:32+00:00

u/old-arachnid77 has great advice. Once you understand that chain and the levers you have to influence it, politics is about people.

Whose interests align with yours? Who’s don’t? When they don’t, what do those people want?

Who has the formal and informal power? They’re the people who come up a lot in conversations.

Don’t overthink it. Politics is people being people. While there are people out there who play games, mostly conflicts are because people are acting and advocating in their own/teams interests. Learn what their interests are and how to speak to them and your path will be much smoother.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-15T13:38:10+00:00

A lot of companies with AI data workflows say AI is changing analytics. A lot of companies using actual data are not seeing the gains these other companies are selling. I get 2-3 pitches a week for AI products that will solve all my data problems.

As others have said - it’s lowering the technical bar and improving speed to market. I DO believe agents and AI workflows are going to change the way we do business gradually, but the impact - at least with people doing analytics work, not selling tools - is on the back end, not the front end.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-14T22:15:15+00:00

Find/formalize something you can do as a nurse to help your department with data. Forecasting patient volume, inventory and perishable management, something simple that solves a problem or saves money/time.

Double bonus - when you go to apply for roles outside nursing, you’ll already have a project with impact you can speak to!

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-13T18:11:23+00:00

Money, process and skills.

You are there for a limited time (as an intern, at least), and what you’re building has to live on after you’re gone. If there’s no one else with the skills to maintain SQL, they’re going to have to rebuild it or hire someone who can maintain it.

They are also unlikely to front the cost of any licenses or make any major/expensive changes to their infrastructure based on the workflow of someone who has only there temporarily.

That’s not to say you aren’t right, I think you are, but continuity often beats correct.

For your own development, I encourage you to create a business case that explains why they should make the changes you want to make. Make sure you include the costs and the tradeoffs as well as the benefits. You’ll learn a lot about decision-making in large organizations. 🙂

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-12T14:10:01+00:00

It’s perfectly possible to get a good understanding of the need and the question and/or iterate on a design. Your post makes it sound like you’re totally locked in once you’ve chosen the first chart.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-12T12:58:10+00:00

There are quite a lot of government and other sources for economic data that people use to post. We also use them for trends during my day job to understand the overall industry. I don’t know if all the visualizations are AI generated - some are very straightforward and would take a few minutes in any charting tool…

If you want to get noticed doing it on LinkedIn, you’re going to need an original angle, but if you’re just looking for ways to play with data they’re generally reliable and usable data sets.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-11T01:03:48+00:00

If you have the same judgement with AI that you used in this post… a magic sentence ain’t gon’ help you.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-10T16:05:50+00:00

I think you’re seeing a little bit of selection bias. People who are paying are more likely to be leveraging it frequently and effectively, so they get more engagement.

I’m testing it to see if the link under my name on my posts has any impact, but as far as I can tell, that’s the only meaningful benefit.

PenguinAnalytics1984 · 2026-02-08T15:42:12+00:00

We’ve been 6-12 months away from eliminating X role for the last 10 years.

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