Archive - Data Gibberish

👷 What to Do When Your Company Has No Formal Review Process

Lack of a formal review process is a test of your professional maturity

Aug 26 • Yordan Ivanov

You Have Two Managers and Neither One Has Seen Half Your Work

A structural reason your stakeholders don't fully trust you yet, and the weekly update that fixed it for me.

Aug 19 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 The Weekly Message That Got Me Promoted (And Took 4 Minutes to Write)

Showing your impact and judgement doesn’t need to be a result of big effort.

Aug 5 • Yordan Ivanov

July 2026

👷 How to Lead a Remote Data Team Effectively

Most people fail working remotely, because it’s very hard, and nobody shows them what good looks like. Let’s change that today.

Jul 30 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 How I Apply The 5 SOLID Principles When Building Teams

You already know how to build software, and here’s you you use these skills to build teams.

Jul 22 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 How to Build a Data Strategy Without Buying a Single Tool

All you need is to answer these 5 questions to set your org for long-term success

Jul 15 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 The 5-4-3-2-1 Method That Turns a Big Goal Into a One-Hour Action

The five questions I walked a senior engineer through live, from AI anxiety to his first action within the hour.

Jul 11 • Yordan Ivanov and Hari Gudla

1:05:08

👷 Nikol Got The Promotion But Kept Doing Her Old Job

The more senior you get, the less your tech skills carry you, but nobody tells you that before the promotion

Jul 8 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 You're Not Stuck Because You're Not Good Enough

Your organization has a different idea of what valuable looks like than you do, and that gap is probably what is holding you back

Jul 3 • Yordan Ivanov and David Langer

1:17:15

June 2026

👷 Everybody Talks About AI (And They Are All Wrong)

The AI adoption race is built on a benchmark that doesn't exist, and while you're busy trying to catch up, your actual job is full of problems nobody's…

Jun 29 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 How I Made My Data Platform's Failures Public and Earned My Stakeholders' Trust

Data teams spend years talking about data products. Almost none run their platforms like one.

Jun 24 • Yordan Ivanov

👷 The 4 Questions That Decide if Your Idea Deserves Your Time

You're afraid. So you say yes to everything that sounds impactful. That's exactly how you end up visible for the wrong reasons.

Jun 19 • Yordan Ivanov

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