One of the three reasons I recently proposed for why biotech ML projects often get stuck at the proof of concept phase (Jupyter notebooks and slides…
Any data team that works with external stakeholders is going to run into the hammers and nails problem: The stakeholders know what their problems are…
One of the most frustrating problems that I’ve seen biotech data teams run into is building a model or an analysis capability, then watching it sit on…
This is a quick note that starting tomorrow, you’ll begin seeing an ad at the bottom of each newsletter for a consulting group called Merelogic. Other…
(Before you start reading, go download my mini-book on the Reciprocal Development Principles. I’ll wait here.) When it comes to coordination between wet…
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Now that my mini-book on the Reciprocal Development Principles is published (Download it today!), I’m starting to work on my next project, whose goal is…
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February 2023

I’m excited to announce that we’ve finished production on my mini-book about the Reciprocal Development Principles, “Leading Biotech Data Teams…
This post is a bit off topic from what I usually write about, but I think it’s relevant to many of my readers and it’s been on my mind recently. I think…
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Ok, I'm just going to say it: wrangling lab metadata is harder than wrangling lab data. That’s right, you heard me. No matter how hard you might think…
One of the assertions of the Reciprocal Development Principles is that data teams in biotech should set goals around, and generally be accountable for…
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I’m starting to suspect that my super power is my willingness to ask the same question over and over again until I get a coherent answer. I don’t mean…

January 2023

*** A quick plug: Jacob Oppenheim has started writing some really great posts on Medium and you should all check it out. (If you know anyone else whose…