How to Be a Better Listener

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Timothy Stanley: I don't know how I work all the time and have zero ideas for a last call. These guestless episodes are my favorite. So we don't have to have the pretense of having our act together. All right, let me think of a good rock flag and Epstein. Who's gonna do the rock flag and eel? No, it's not middle school. It's not middleSchool. What are they doing? What are theydoing? What arethey doing? They're just looking at Venn diagrams. Analytics don't work. We should kick Tim off the podcast and just the three of us do it. Dude, this be so much more aff

There are only so many hours in a day and only so many days in a year. Logically, then, the best way to grow a career as a data worker is to spend as many hours as possible doing focused data work, right? Well… probably not. In this episode, we dove into generalization versus specialization — what does that even mean, and how should we think about balancing between the two, and how can interests and activities outside of the data work itself actually make us better analysts? Bonus activity: listen for the hosts' overt trolling of Tim to see if they can get him to come off mute in his role as associate producer for the episode. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.