Think about the relationships that matter most to you and treat them like they are part of your happiness infrastructure. Protect dinner where phones stay facedown. Call the person who steadies your nervous system instead of refreshing your inbox when stress spikes. Work will fill your calendar. But your humans will keep you upright.More
Tag Archives: Team Culture
204: Phyllis Fang: Trust infrastructure and freakish curiosity as career growth levers
Phyllis learned how fragile marketing becomes when systems move faster than trust while working between lifecycle execution and product marketing at Uber. Safety work around emergencies, verification, and COVID forced messages to withstand scrutiny from riders, drivers, regulators, and the public.More
179: Tiankai Feng: The comeback of data quality and how NLP is changing the data analyst role
Data governance feels like the Jedi Council, steady with its rules, while marketing ops moves like the Rebel Alliance, quick to adapt when perfect data never arrives. Tiankai believes progress comes from blending discipline with curiosity, bringing data in early as a partner, not a critic.More
175: Hope Barrett: SoundCloud’s Martech Leader reflects on their huge messaging platform migration and structuring martech like a product
In twelve weeks, Hope led a full messaging stack rebuild with just three people. They cut 200 legacy campaigns down to what mattered, partnered with MoEngage for execution, and shifted messaging into the product org. Now, SoundCloud ships notifications like features that are part of a core product. Governance is clean, data runs through BigQuery, and audiences sync everywhere. The migration was wild and fast, but incredibly meticulous and the ultimate gain was making the whole system make sense again.More
156: Chris Golec: The Godfather of ABM is on his 3rd company and he’s solving attribution for B2B marketers with AI
The Godfather of ABM takes us through his humble beginnings in Detroit’s industrial trenches to category creation and entrepreneurial expeditions. His journey spans building magnetic company cultures, cracking the code on remote work, sharing candid hiring wisdom, and transforming marketing failures into fuel for growth. Now building Channel99, he’s rewriting attribution with a touch of AI engineering, predicting marketing ROI, using a white box approach.More