Gordon Wong
@gordonhwong.bsky.social
I enable better outcomes through access to knowledge
VP of Data at Newfire Global
VP of Data at Newfire Global
This is the literal definition of coup. Sudden and illegal take over of a government
February 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is the literal definition of coup. Sudden and illegal take over of a government
no concussions or broken wrists?
January 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
no concussions or broken wrists?
thanks @jayatillake.bsky.social . I'm interested in helping make those decisions that help every day people. Given all the fancy tech we have now, is there such at thing as BI at distributed scale can have not just 10s but 10s of thousands of users get answer to local questions?
December 11, 2024 at 7:58 PM
thanks @jayatillake.bsky.social . I'm interested in helping make those decisions that help every day people. Given all the fancy tech we have now, is there such at thing as BI at distributed scale can have not just 10s but 10s of thousands of users get answer to local questions?
I feel like I need to have a conversation with folks who want to talk about the potential social impact of this graph. Is there a "life's work" here? Who wants to chat?!?
December 7, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I feel like I need to have a conversation with folks who want to talk about the potential social impact of this graph. Is there a "life's work" here? Who wants to chat?!?
I know I am late to the game. For a long time I didn't get Twitter. I'm just getting Bluesky how. @jakthom.bsky.social 's demos around Jetstream and duckdb were eye-opening. @jayatillake.bsky.social 's public experiment with dlt and sqlmesh are equally so.
December 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I know I am late to the game. For a long time I didn't get Twitter. I'm just getting Bluesky how. @jakthom.bsky.social 's demos around Jetstream and duckdb were eye-opening. @jayatillake.bsky.social 's public experiment with dlt and sqlmesh are equally so.
Keep broadening the knowledge access by bringing any number of free and cheap analysis tools to the semantic layers. Picture community analytics using Lightdash, Superset, Redash hitting Cube semantic layers, populated with local 311 datasets.
December 7, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Keep broadening the knowledge access by bringing any number of free and cheap analysis tools to the semantic layers. Picture community analytics using Lightdash, Superset, Redash hitting Cube semantic layers, populated with local 311 datasets.
Go back downstream and publish semantic layers designed to solve a wide breath of knowledge problems, from measuring nightly homeless shelter demand in New York City, to what the hot Black Friday deals are.
December 7, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Go back downstream and publish semantic layers designed to solve a wide breath of knowledge problems, from measuring nightly homeless shelter demand in New York City, to what the hot Black Friday deals are.
Go upstream and broaden the data collection, just like how Twitter became a lens into oppressed areas. Make the onramp as broad and easy a possible to get the funnel as wide as possible
December 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Go upstream and broaden the data collection, just like how Twitter became a lens into oppressed areas. Make the onramp as broad and easy a possible to get the funnel as wide as possible
If the "middle" is mostly solved, then the constraints go to either side. Preparation and analysis at scale to turn data into low level knowledge. Cue sentimental analysis models, scoring models, etc. Process and publish back out into the knowledge for downstream apps to use.
December 7, 2024 at 6:01 PM
If the "middle" is mostly solved, then the constraints go to either side. Preparation and analysis at scale to turn data into low level knowledge. Cue sentimental analysis models, scoring models, etc. Process and publish back out into the knowledge for downstream apps to use.
Knowledge is always about making better decisions that lead to better outcomes. Knowledge graphs are about collecting data, making it useable and pairing with decision makers. A truly open, distributed, ubiquitous, message queue adds so much muscle to a society wide knowledge graph
December 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Knowledge is always about making better decisions that lead to better outcomes. Knowledge graphs are about collecting data, making it useable and pairing with decision makers. A truly open, distributed, ubiquitous, message queue adds so much muscle to a society wide knowledge graph
Agreed. Maybe this is a peek into the time scale you can play in when you are that deep in the stack. Or maybe its just an accidental strategy
December 7, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Agreed. Maybe this is a peek into the time scale you can play in when you are that deep in the stack. Or maybe its just an accidental strategy
its all good for the consumer. This is the toughest thing about being a VAR. You build on top of someone else, grow the market but then become the target to leapfrog
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
its all good for the consumer. This is the toughest thing about being a VAR. You build on top of someone else, grow the market but then become the target to leapfrog
I know of one company, that shall go unnamed, that lost $100M in a SINGLE quarter because they got their automated SEM bidding dramatically wrong.
December 3, 2024 at 3:45 PM
I know of one company, that shall go unnamed, that lost $100M in a SINGLE quarter because they got their automated SEM bidding dramatically wrong.
what if you misidentify the profitability of your biggest customer cohort, hurting your investment strategy? You have both waste and lost of opportunity as negative value-add
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
what if you misidentify the profitability of your biggest customer cohort, hurting your investment strategy? You have both waste and lost of opportunity as negative value-add
If you've been in this business for an appreciable time and you don't have a horror story, I don't think you're paying attention.
The potential harm of bad or incorrect analysis in most cases out weights the potential benefit
The potential harm of bad or incorrect analysis in most cases out weights the potential benefit
December 3, 2024 at 3:43 PM
If you've been in this business for an appreciable time and you don't have a horror story, I don't think you're paying attention.
The potential harm of bad or incorrect analysis in most cases out weights the potential benefit
The potential harm of bad or incorrect analysis in most cases out weights the potential benefit
I want to be on platforms where I own my data, we collectively own our data or no one owns the data. The last seems easiest. It's also a reminder not to be an ahole publicly
November 30, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I want to be on platforms where I own my data, we collectively own our data or no one owns the data. The last seems easiest. It's also a reminder not to be an ahole publicly
Started climbing 20 years ago but had a big break when the kids were young. Mostly indoor top roping but in the last two years, 50/50 with bouldering
November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Started climbing 20 years ago but had a big break when the kids were young. Mostly indoor top roping but in the last two years, 50/50 with bouldering
I'm also wrestling with (again) great being the enemy of good enough. I used to use Roam pretty consistently. However it just doesn't cover enough of my workflows. Now I use nothing, which is not better....
November 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I'm also wrestling with (again) great being the enemy of good enough. I used to use Roam pretty consistently. However it just doesn't cover enough of my workflows. Now I use nothing, which is not better....