Social Posts — Sanity Check Relaunch
Promotion posts for the relaunch essay: I stopped writing about data. Here’s what brought me back.
I took a two-year break from writing about data engineering.
Not because I ran out of opinions. Because the ground was shifting so fast I couldn’t tell what was signal and what was noise.
Here’s what pulled me back: the consumers of your data are changing. Your pipeline’s newest customer isn’t a VP checking a dashboard on Monday morning. It’s an AI agent making decisions at 3am — autonomously, without asking clarifying questions.
That changes everything about how we model, document, and serve data. And most teams haven’t caught up yet.
I’m relaunching my newsletter Sanity Check — one take per week on data engineering and data ops in an agentic world. No vendor hype. No “AI will replace you” panic. Just what I’m actually seeing across data teams right now.
First issue is live: [LINK]
What’s the biggest shift you’ve noticed on your data team in the last year?
Twitter/X (Single Tweet)
Your pipeline’s newest customer is a model making decisions at 3am. It doesn’t Slack you when the data looks wrong. It just acts.
I’m writing about this again. [LINK]
Twitter/X Thread
Tweet 1: I stopped writing about data engineering for two years. Just relaunched my newsletter. Here’s why:
Tweet 2: The biggest shift in data right now isn’t a new tool or framework. It’s that your data consumers are increasingly machines — agents running autonomously, acting on whatever you serve them. If your models and docs aren’t ready for that, you’ve got a problem nobody’s Slacking you about.
Tweet 3: Fundamentals first. Agents second. That’s the bet I’m making with Sanity Check.
First issue is live: [LINK]