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Robert Yi 🐳's avatar

I've been thinking about this idea of co-evolution of culture and genetics lately as well - glad to see someone else has already written about it. Just here to say I love this post and the analogy. You've nailed what's been wrong with the data world for the past few years. 👍

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John Wessel's avatar

It’s a tough time in history to encourage trust in any institution… however, I think you do that by making the institution as human as possible.

In my days as an analyst (the one sending the spreadsheet), I built trust by developing domain knowledge - so I could catch non-obvious (from a technical standpoint) errors in the data. I learned gross margin should be around x% or total revenue would be around y. I still made some mistakes, though, and by being quick to fix errors and transparent about how they happened, I could still keep the trust. As much as MDS tooling can reflect that humanity - I think the better.

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