Crossroads for soccer: Modern strategies are positional, rigid, and predictable. Modern sports analytics fail the game because it is too fluid. The two sports worlds cannot coexist. Either, it becomes stale to fit statistical odds or we embrace creativity and unpredictability. I know my choice.

Confession: Sometimes I feel like I’m getting left behind with industry advances and fear being made obsolete. I tell myself that everyone is chasing rabbits. They’ll be back to the basics eventually. Unsure if it’s cope or reality but I suspect that is how the world is now too with AI and all.

Enjoying the palm trees

It’s been a very long time since I have been able to get away.

If you were curious about flying Frontier Airlines… Don’t.

The wildest thing about the crazy Giza Pyramid discovery is that nobody seems to care.

Fridays are great. Fridays when you release a transformative tool that shows every touchpoint with a customer/contact and allow access for the entire business to monitor that engagement are a mix of excitement and nerves.

Frank’s Red Hot really is the most versatile condiment.

Chat with a stakeholder today can be summarized as such: “I don’t like what this data shows. Can we edit it?” It really is one of those days today…

Mgmt: The downward trend seems to have slowed and stabilized. Me: It just looks that way. The rate of change is still the same negative %. The absolute change is smaller because the gross is smaller. Mgmt: Uh…We’ll stay the course. Me:

Nottingham Forest: 7 Brighton: 0

This might be the first weekend all season that Forest is predicted to win. Sounds like a jinx. @nottinghamforest.news

The more I watch of Haaland, the less impressed I am.

Apex Predator!!

Wild first half. @usujason.hippieceo.com

This time of year is full of hope because there is noticeably more daylight each day.

As big as Chicago is… As much of a fantastic sports city Chicago is… Every single one of our professional teams in every sport is terrible That’s a little embarrassing

How Analysts stay fit:

Please do not script your presentations. It is immediately detectable and feels inauthentic.

Two months later and Mgmt is finally asking the questions that I initially posed but were brushed off.

It took until today to receive a Marketing Email with “test” as the subject. Well done, email marketers!

Hope everyone has enjoyed the reminders of what marketing email lists you are on!

“Lime in the Coconut” is an underrated. Song and deserves a revival. At Max Volume youtu.be/5LxC3M-Yngs?...

Another day, another project in measuring the value of an “awareness campaign.”

Today was a lesson that the data is never wrong but your attributions and definitions might be.

When it comes to being a Manager, nobody tells you that half of your job is managing other managers. Coaching your team is one thing but then there’s also the management of other teams/departments. That’s the real struggle.

So many new followers will make a dinosaur blush!

Funny how this app has had very little action until the last 7 days

Referee says “Merry Christmas Bournemouth. Coal for Nottingham Forest.” So many terrible calls (and no-calls) that first half.

Just noticed that Adobe updated the Data Warehouse UX. After so many years of the same, it’s like learning a brand new tool.

Colleague: Let’s use machine learning to change lead scoring. Me: Ok. But be careful. There are a lot of processes in place and have been so for more than a decade - before any of us were here and no one understands it fully. 2 months later. Colleague: Uh oh. Oops.

At least my attribution woes are not this bad. Someone took the “Last Touch attribution is so passé” a bit too far.

Turkeys are birds. Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. I trust everyone is enjoying a nice Thanksgiving ham today.

“I can barely understand the complicated coding rules that are in place. We should add more code to adjust the output.” Ugh.

Now we’re talking!!

A commercial for a menopause pill during the Bears football game is a very bold TV ad buy.

Bots have made it to Blue Sky.

“Connective tissue” seems to be the hot new business jargon. I hate it.

Victory!

Credit cards seem to keep getting heavier and this line from Snatch is all I can think.

There is no greater compliment from an interviewee than breaking any facade to say in shock “wait, you guys can actually do that?”

My first post will be noting that I do not see easy gif functionality.