Metadata
- Author: mataroa.blog
- Full Title:: Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: 📖 Bullshit Jobs, 📖 Bullshit Jobs , ✍️ Ser data-driven no es de guapas
- URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-data-work-seems-fundamentally-worthless/
- Finished date:: 2023-02-27
Highlights
I spent about two years in that role and produced absolutely nothing of value to society, and more strangely, nothing of value to the organisation I was in. I largely produced PowerBI dashboards from awful data sources that I knew no one was looking at - the same people who sent the emails tagged ‘URGENT!’ and demanded a product ASAP were seemingly unaware that we could view whether anyone actually looked at the work we produced (View Highlight)
people actually just wanted their spreadsheets delivered faster, and… despair (View Highlight)
The absolutely fucked up thing is that everyone I’ve met in this space seems to have totally given up on doing anything meaningful at work (View Highlight)
Porque, de hecho, cómo de fuerte sería pasar de esto?e
What I hadn’t really grasped was the degree to which some organisations have grown so absurdly fat that they could afford to dispose of millions of dollars on employees who did nothing other than reaffirm a vague commitment to being data driven (View Highlight)
It is frequently such a Herculean task to even put together a dataset that represents a clear view of what the organisation is doing that you just can’t. (View Highlight)
They eventually quit their incredibly cushy job and sold books for a few months at a big retail chain - and they said it was incredibly therapeutic. They finally felt they were doing something worthwhile, as simple as it was (View Highlight)
Quality takes time, and right now, it definitely feels like there isn’t much of a place for that in the workplace. (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2023-12-18
Most organisations don’t have people with the right incentives and vision to push for real change (View Highlight)