The Data Letter

The Data Letter

Earlier Work: Data and AI

‘It Works on My Laptop’ Is Not a Product Strategy

A Tale of Two Disciplines in Building Data Products

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Dec 21, 2025
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Organizations hire data scientists to discover what’s possible and engineers to keep systems running, then act surprised when these groups struggle to hand off work. The collision stems from asking two professions with opposing optimization criteria to share artifacts without designing how that exchange should work.

Understanding this as an interface des…

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