
Joe Reis
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My rants on data, technology, and business
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The Pendulums of Data
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4 Oct 2026
The Weekend Windup #48 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

This Year’s Better Mousetrap: New Tech, Same Old Problems, and The Semantic Swamp
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27 Sep 2026
The Weekend Windup #47 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Why Write Books These Days?
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19 Sep 2026
The Weekend Windup #46 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Announcing The Practical Data Summit 2027
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15 Sep 2026
Have fun in the snow! Also, not your typical data event...

Are Data Teams Cooked?
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6 Sep 2026
The Weekend Windup #44 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Are You Still Hands-On?
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30 Aug 2026
The Weekend Windup #43 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Why Data Modeling Needs a Manifesto
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23 Aug 2026
The Weekend Windup #42 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The "X is Dead" Fallacy
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9 Aug 2026
The Weekend Windup #41 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The Post-Literate Engineer
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2 Aug 2026
The Weekend Windup #40 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The Data Engineering Lifecycle and Undercurrents, 4 Years Later
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27 Jul 2026
And what I'd change today in Fundamentals of Data Engineering

To Every Agent Its Own Database
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21 Jul 2026
A Working Reference Architecture for Agent-Native Analytical Exchange

The AI Party Isn’t Over. But the Bill Will Show Up Soon
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19 Jul 2026
The Weekend Windup #39 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Your Agents Are Stuck In Your Org Chart
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12 Jul 2026
The Weekend Windup #38 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The Data Anarchy Tax: Why your team is firefighting 45% of the time.
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9 Jul 2026
Results of the June 2026 pulse survey on organizations and data engineers

Is AI Replacing Data Engineers? A chat with Kirill Bobrov (luminousmen)
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7 Jul 2026
AI is changing how we build software, but it’s not changing what makes a great engineer.
What I'd Do As a Junior Candidate in Mid-2026
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27 Jun 2026
The Weekend Windup #37 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Booms, Busts, and Builders: Lessons from the High Plains of Wyoming
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20 Jun 2026
The Weekend Windup #36 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

Life Outside the Bay Area Bubble - Atoms, Bits, and the Resurgence of Detroit
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6 Jun 2026
The Weekend Windup #35 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Notes From the Field: AI, Energy Shocks & the End of the Old Playbook (Spring 2026 Edition)
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30 May 2026
The Weekend Windup #34 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The Organizational State of Data Engineering
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26 May 2026
A new pulse survey on what organizational dysfunction in data work actually looks like.

Why 90% of Data Teams Are Failing at Data Modeling
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15 May 2026
The Weekend Windup #33 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Data Engineering in 2026 w/ Zach Wilson
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9 May 2026
The Weekend Windup #32 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
Why Tokenmaxxing is For Fools. A Rant on Fake Productivity.
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2 May 2026
The Weekend Windup #31 - Cool reads, events, links, and more
WTF is a Software Moat in 2026?
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25 Apr 2026
The Weekend Windup #30 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy
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19 Apr 2026
The Weekend Windup #29 - Cool reads, events, links, and more

The Mythos Threshold
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13 Apr 2026
A speculative timeline through 2028 of what happens when the AI model starts thinking for itself

