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I went to a ClickHouse meetup here in Dubai.

Never used the tool, but I'm happy to learn.

ClickHouse is:

- a database

- built for analytics

- open source

Furthermore, it:

- can be run on a single node or in a cluster

- stores data in columnar format

- uses both "vectorized query execution" and "runtime code generation" to maximize CPU usage

In the meetup, Cl... See more

In 2003 LEGO was $800m in debt. But by 2015 they had $1billion+ in sales. What was at the heart of such a crazy comeback?

Patterns.

LEGO did a mountain of research... and found patterns in how children play.

As their then-CEO said - "If you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle."

So they talked to Lego fans.... See more

How organizations practice rest is one of their most powerful displays of values— and responsible leadership.

After 5 years building in consumer, a huge learning is that “creating a feeling” is the most inportant thing for building a resonant brand. Product and services end up being interchangeable but the feeling in a customers mind is not. The best brands are the best storytellers with the most authentic messaging. To action this, we’ve seen success buil... See more

One week everyone is embracing a brat summer, and the next they are approaching life in a ✨very mindful, very demure✨ way. Demure has done a Pilates class, ordered their green juice and gone to the Sunday morning market for their weekly groceries all before brat has even rolled out of bed. Brat is waking up at a random sharehouse in Fitzroy and dri... See more

Show me someone who thinks Advertising will die because of AI and I'll show you someone who doesn't understand how Advertising and Brands work

The antidote to overthinking isn't thinking less. It's rethinking more.Overthinking is ruminating on old ideas without a new lens. It narrows your focus and wears you out.Rethinking is revisiting the same issue from a different perspective. It broadens and sharpens your view.

Sounds fancy. Why do we care? GAR involves taking the source documents and having an LLM enrich them, prior to indexing. For example, the LLM might... * Generate titles for documents that are missing them * Standardize author names/formats* Extract dates, URLs, citations and other elements that might be valuable to search as separate fields* Create... See more

Hiring developers is a lot like building an NFL team.

You can draft fresh college graduates for a very low cost.

Not every college grad will make it to the big leagues.

Some will be superstars in the first week.

Your team needs to be a balance of college grads and veterans.

You can't afford a team of nothing but veterans.

You also don't need vetera... See more