Last week I talked about how good you have to be at your job. Yesterday's OpenAI announcement of it's "reasoning" model, o1, got me thinking about how good AI needs to be to do our jobs.

Ergest Xheblati is a data architect and author of Minimum Viable SQL Patterns. We chat about the opportunities and challenges of SQL, things that don't change in tech and data, writing and publishing books, and much more.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ergestx/

Other links: https://www.ergestx.com/links/

Dylan Anderson is a UK-based data strategist. We chat about bridging the gap between data and strategy, why talking about business value is a waste of time, and much more.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylansjanderson/

Substack: https://thedataecosystem.substack.com/

While speaking to one of my best friends, who's worked as a pilot for over 30 years, he mentioned that a "good" pilot doesn't crash the plane. In tech and data, "good" is viewed differently. How good you have to be at your job?

Jordan Tigani is back to chat about why small data is awesome, data lakehouses, DuckDB, AI, and much more.

Motherduck: https://motherduck.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jrdntgn?lang=en

Demetrios Brinkmann is the co-founder of the massively global MLOps Community. We chat about AI hype vs reality, building a global tech community, and ROI of AI projects, and much more.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/

MLOps Community: https://mlops.community/

"Do you and Zach Wilson hate each other?"

I get asked questions like this, and it makes me laugh. We're good friends for the record. Most people play zero sum games, where one person wins and another loses. Questions like this got me thinking about how content creation is a positive sum game. You can consume content from many people, and this benefits everyone. Here, I unpack the differences of zero sum and positive sum games.

Vinoo Ganesh is an open source enthusiast and contributor, and a data and ML engineer. We chat about strong open source communities, LLMs and AI, and much more.

Lekhana Reddy is a data content creator focusing on mindfulness. We chat about how mindfulness in technology is key, especially given the need to maintain humanity with the rise of AI.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lekhanareddy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storytellingbydata/

Until recently, Nik Suresh wrote under a mysterious blog that had several viral posts, including the famous "I Will F*cking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again." For the longest time, he was an underground sensation, with nobody (not even his friends) knowing his identity.

In this episode, we chat about his blog posts (I'm a huge fan), the realities of data science and data engineering, and much more. This is a very candid and fun chat where I'm actually the fanboy, so enjoy!

Blog: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/