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MANIFESTO

Make the work legible.

A working set of principles I use to evaluate platforms, teams, and projects. This list evolves as I learn.

  1. [01]

    Governance is a product

    Treat data policy, cataloging, and lineage as features users experience, not paperwork behind the scenes.

  2. [02]

    Metrics must narrate decisions

    Every dashboard should answer who needs this, what action they take, and how we measure impact.

  3. [03]

    Metadata is the operating system

    Schema contracts, change feeds, and control tables keep ingestion predictable and auditable.

  4. [04]

    Teaching scales platforms

    Teams adopt new platforms when enablement is built in, through walkthroughs, reusable templates, and well-told stories.