Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: BI’s third form
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/bis-third-form
- Finished date:: 2024-04-28
Highlights
Amazon isn’t Amazon because it’s great at defining metrics. It’s Amazon because it’s great at interpreting them (View Highlight)
The much harder thing is knowing what to do with those answers once we have them. (View Highlight)
Tell us how to interpret a time-series chart; force us to think about decomposing our business into its important components; give us a rigid summary table of our business that encourages us to debate what we do about the numbers on the page and now how we graph them; impose frameworks on us, and make us choose one. (View Highlight)
Maybe it’s time to try another approach. Stop giving us more exploratory interfaces to get lost in. Stop waiting for us to become “data literate.” Assume we aren’t, and won’t be for a long time. If we were jaded about that, what would we build then?11 (View Highlight)