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Samuel Wong

@samuelwong.bsky.social
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Founder @datafying Turning data into actions, not dashboards 10+ years in customer & product analytics Industry mentor for 20+ Building with AI 📥 DM for collab

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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 17h
How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents open.substack.com/pub/bytebyte...
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How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 18h
The DeepSeek Harness and Everything is a Plug-in Philosophy Exploring the DeepSeek Harness through a vendor evaluator tool use-case thenuancedperspective.substack.com/p/the-deepse...
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The DeepSeek Harness and Everything is a Plug-in Philosophy
Exploring the DeepSeek Harness through a vendor evaluator tool use-case
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI Made Data Scientists Faster. Now It’s Expanding the Job The real shift is bigger than productivity: AI is reshaping ownership, judgment, and the career path of data scientists towardsdatascience.com/ai-made-data...
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AI Made Data Scientists Faster. Now It’s Expanding the Job.
The real shift is bigger than productivity: AI is reshaping ownership, judgment, and the career path of data scientists.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Genie One MCP is now Generally Available Access Genie One’s data-smart insights from any agent with the Genie One MCP, now generally available for all Databricks users www.databricks.com/blog/genie-o...
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The Genie One MCP is now Generally Available
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How to get AI to do the things you hate (even if you’re bad at it) The 3-step method for stealing AI skills from people better than you taylaburrell.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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How to get AI to do the things you hate (even if you’re bad at it)
The 3-step method for stealing AI skills from people better than you
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Guerrilla Hiring Playbook how to out-hire companies with better brands and higher bands runthebusiness.substack.com/p/the-guerri...
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The Guerrilla Hiring Playbook
how to out-hire companies with better brands and higher bands
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where Should AI Actually Be in the Product? Just because AI can do something doesn’t mean it should marily.substack.com/p/ai-pm-flas...
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AI PM Flashcard #3: Where Should AI Actually Be in the Product?
Just because AI can do something doesn’t mean it should.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Run Claude Code From Your Phone Put the dev environment on an always-on server and any device becomes a terminal, which is either a superpower or a burnout trap depending entirely on the discipline the tool won't enforce for you www.chrismdp.com/claude-code-...
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Run Claude Code From Your Phone
Your laptop is a terrible development environment. It sleeps when you close the lid, loses state when you reboot, and chains you to a single device. The solu...
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who Gets Paid When AI Does the Shopping? AI Assistants vs Marketplaces, and where the profit pools go open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/w...
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Who Gets Paid When AI Does the Shopping?
AI Assistants vs Marketplaces
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People keep interrupting you? Here's why (and what to do about it) www.linkedin.com/pulse/people...
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People keep interrupting you? Here's why (and what to do about it)
So this is a topic that comes up a LOT with my students, and people don't usually like what I have to say about it. But here's the truth.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Understands Something Important and Rare The purpose of a business is to create a customer open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/o...
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OpenAI Understands Something Important and Rare
The purpose of a business is to create a customer
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No One Knows What To Do With Agents & No One Gets Paid Until They Do There’s a massive opportunity for people who can fill the gaps vinvashishta.substack.com/p/no-one-kno...
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No One Knows What To Do With Agents & No One Gets Paid Until They Do
There’s a massive opportunity for people who can fill the gaps.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When You Tell the Truth in a Toxic Workplace, You Become the Problem www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-y...
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When You Tell the Truth in a Toxic Workplace, You Become the Problem
Have you ever noticed what happens the moment someone finally names the elephant in the room? The room doesn’t sigh with relief. It freezes.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enterprise vibe coding has an AI governance problem www.dataiku.com/blog/enterpr...
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Enterprise vibe coding has an AI governance problem
Vibe coding AI projects is accelerating enterprise development and creating a governance gap. Learn why AI-generated AI outpaces traditional oversight.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham Molly Graham revisits her famous career advice for the AI era, and explains why delegating to a robot is nothing like delegating to a human open.substack.com/pub/lenny/p/...
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The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
Listen now (94 mins) | Molly Graham revisits her famous career advice for the AI era, and explains why delegating to a robot is nothing like delegating to a human
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Four Architectures That Make AI Work Decisions, meaning, proof, people. The four systems that decide whether it delivers contextandchaos.substack.com/p/four-archi...
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The Four Architectures That Make AI Work
Gartner’s 2026 CIO and Technology Executive Survey tells a familiar story: just 17% of organisations have deployed AI agents, while more than 60% expect to within two years.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What will make personal AI go big? Four design principles behind Muse’s appeal - Make it approachable - Make me feel I can trust it - Give me outsized value - Give me a sense of possibility lg.substack.com/p/what-will-...
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What will make personal AI go big?
Four design principles behind Muse’s appeal
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Top 9 Places to Use Jev Not every AI task needs a frontier model: let the big one generate and a cheap "System One" model make the dozens of small decisions around it, from routing to guardrails to confidence gates open.substack.com/pub/bytebyte...
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EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first System One Model. It is 100x faster and cheaper than frontier LLMs.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Top performers aren’t smarter. They work differently Researchers tested 45 traits at Bell Labs and 3M and found that not one of them separated the top performers. What did was nine learnable work strategies polinarussell.substack.com/p/9-top-perf...
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Top performers aren’t smarter. They work differently.
Researchers tested 45 traits at Bell Labs and 3M and found that not one of them separated the top performers. What did was nine learnable work strategies.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do You Actually Need Real-Time Data? Why “real-time” is often a business requirement that hasn’t been defined yet seattledataguy.substack.com/p/do-you-act...
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Do You Actually Need Real-Time Data?
Why “real-time” is often a business requirement that hasn’t been defined yet
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops Coding is becoming a commodity while designing the loops that verify AI output becomes the job, so the winning skill is steering intelligence, not writing code tomtunguz.com/thinking-in-...
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Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops
Software engineering has evolved into systems architecture. 37signals, Artemis & SpaceXAI all report the same shift : agents write the code, engineers design the systems that decide whether it is righ...
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Age of the Soft Skill Generation is free but attention isn't, so the people who win in 2026 are the ones who compress, decide, and follow through, because the soft skills were only "soft" while the hard skills were rare rudyfaile.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Rudy Faile - The Age of the Soft Skill
Every team had one: the engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down. Nobody wanted to work with them. Everybo…
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Running open-Jev in SQL on Databricks Use serverless GPUs and ai_query to apply structured decisions directly to governed data www.databricks.com/blog/running...
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Running open-Jev in SQL on Databricks
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What it’s like to work at an AI-native company Field notes from a millennial raised in pre-AI tech open.substack.com/pub/elenaver...
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What it’s like to work at an AI-native company
Field notes from a millennial raised in pre-AI tech
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Labelling a million rows of text just went from "expensive AI project or train your own model" to "one line of SQL", which makes previously unthinkable workloads (like reading every support transcript you've ever stored) suddenly cheap and fast motherduck.com/blog/motherd...
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prompt_jev(): Text Classification in SQL, 50x Faster at 1% the Cost | MotherDuck
Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans. | Reading time: 5 min read
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right open.substack.com/pub/lenny/p/...
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🎙️ How I AI: Meta’s Muse review + How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Advanced evals: How to find (and fix) hidden AI failures in your product Why you should never skip error discovery open.substack.com/pub/lenny/p/...
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Advanced evals: How to find (and fix) hidden AI failures in your product
Why you should never skip error discovery
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What AI adoption in the public sector and higher education looks like right now edgered.com.au/nap-stack-wh...
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[Nap Stack] What AI adoption in the public sector actually looks like right now - EdgeRed
Microsoft's Peter Xing on how public sector and education leaders can move from AI adoption to real organisational value in the next 12 months.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The most dangerous analytics systems could be the ones that work “perfectly” www.dataiku.com/blog/the-mos...
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The most dangerous analytics systems could be the ones that work “perfectly”
Learn the hidden risks in mature analytics systems and why context-aware platforms are crucial for maintaining strategic relevance & operational stability.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI is erasing the lines between jobs Jobs used to be discrete bundles of tasks, but AI is blurring professional boundaries adenlbarton.substack.com/p/ai-is-eras...
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AI is erasing the lines between jobs
Jobs used to be discrete bundles of tasks, but AI is blurring professional boundaries
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Build a Speaker-Recognition App with Claude Code Learn how to effectively code up an internal tool using Claude code or Codex towardsdatascience.com/build-a-spea...
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Build a Speaker-Recognition App with Claude Code
Learn how to effectively code up an internal tool using Claude code or Codex
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your AI agent may have made the decision, but your company owns the risk www.cio.com/article/4223...
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Your AI agent may have made the decision, but your company owns the risk
Gartner says 40% of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by 2026. Your auditors are going to hate it.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How to Run a Big Model on Cheap Hardware open.substack.com/pub/bytebyte...
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How to Run a Big Model on Cheap Hardware?
A large AI model can run on modest hardware only by reducing the memory it occupies, reducing the calculations it performs, or moving some work to slower hardware.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What Is A Jev & Why Should You Care? vinvashishta.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
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What Is A Jev & Why Should You Care?
Jev is a masterclass in productizing research and taking that product to market to optimize adoption.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Unified Dependency Graph: Stop Agentic AI From Outrunning Its Own Architecture moderndata101.substack.com/p/the-unifie...
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The Unified Dependency Graph: Stop Agentic AI From Outrunning Its Own Architecture
Why column lineage, semantic layers, and model registries still don't talk to each other, and why agentic AI needs a traceable path from raw data to every output it produces.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Your Company Passed Its Tipping Point, But Leadership Didn't Notice (6 Months Later) vinvashishta.substack.com/p/your-compa...
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Your Company Passed Its Tipping Point, But Leadership Didn't Notice (6 Months Later)
I released this in March, and it’s more relevant today because these trends are becoming more obvious, so I rewrote it with updates.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes open.substack.com/pub/lenny/p/...
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🎙️ How I AI: How two XAI designers use Grok Bot to do their jobs
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The hardest part of agentic analytics isn't the AI It's getting everyone to agree on what "active user" means, because without that shared semantic foundation, every AI tool you buy just automates the confusion faster open.substack.com/pub/futurepr...
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My Experience Building Agentic Analytics at a Tech Company (And Shipping it Stakeholders)
Are you ready for this shift?
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Where Should the Graph Live? Every serious AI system needs relationships. Whether they need a graph database is a different question, and it has a different answer for every workload contextandchaos.substack.com/p/where-shou...
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Where Should the Graph Live?
Every serious AI system needs relationships. Whether they need a graph database is a different question, and it has a different answer for every workload.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI for No Good Reason A bird wall, a talking rotary phone, and a game starring your cousins: what people make when nobody is counting the hours lg.substack.com/p/a-bird-wal...
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AI for No Good Reason
The most creative ways people have used AI for leisure
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dawn of New Governance Laws for AI Agents: Real-Time “Control” for Autonomy Why AI agent governance must happen at runtime and how governance changes in the face of agentic speed moderndata101.substack.com/p/new-govern...
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Dawn of New Governance Laws for AI Agents: Real-Time “Control” for Autonomy
Why AI agent governance must happen at runtime and how governance changes in the face of agentic speed.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Enterprise AI agents: architecture, use cases, and ROI guide www.dataiku.com/blog/enterpr...
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Enterprise AI agents: architecture, use cases, and ROI guide
Enterprise AI agents automate workflows and boost ROI. Learn about agentic AI components, models, real-world examples, and a step-by-step rollout plan.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Agent-Native Infrastructure: APIs, Interfaces, and Authorization How agents interact with software, why long-running tasks break and what safer execution requires thenuancedperspective.substack.com/p/agent-nati...
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Agent-Native Infrastructure: APIs, Interfaces, and Authorization
How agents interact with software, why long-running tasks break and what safer execution requires
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You don't need to migrate those 300 dashboards Real self-service means migrating logic, not dashboard UI hex.tech/blog/dont-mi...
hex.tech
You don't need to migrate those 300 dashboards
AI is changing BI migrations. Learn which dashboards are worth migrating and why moving the logic—not the UI—unlocks real self-service.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Late to the party
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Geo Experimentation: How to Measure the Incremental Impact of Marketing www.bellstatistics.com/post/introdu...
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Geo Experiments: How to Measure Marketing Incrementality
Geo experiments measure the incremental impact of marketing. Learn what geo testing is, when to use it, and why it is more reliable than attribution models.
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
LinkedIn’s Engineering CTO on Building AI-Native Products in 2026 Lessons from 20+ years of building and scaling one of the world’s largest professional platforms thenuancedperspective.substack.com/p/linkedins-...
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LinkedIn’s Engineering CTO on Building AI-Native Products in 2026
Lessons from 20+ years of building and scaling one of the world’s largest professional platforms
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mentorship isn't about transferring information It's about having someone watch you play and notice the thing you've been doing wrong for years without realising it And, it’s hard to ask about something you haven’t noticed endler.dev/2026/why-i-s...
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Why I Still Believe in Mentorship | Matthias Endler
One of the best tips I ever got was from my tab…
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All the messy and undocumented stuff that humans silently work around every day thinksolverepeat.substack.com/p/a-piece-of...
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A piece of humble pie.
You think your data warehouse is perfect?
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Samuel Wong @samuelwong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Executives have massive FOMO and keep signing AI checks without knowing the ROI Practitioners are having existential crises about whether their skills still matter Behind the scenes, they're just as confused and concerned joereis.substack.com/p/nobody-kno...
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Nobody Knows...
The Weekend Windup #45 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
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