Dina Mohammad-Laity

Counting things, building things 👩‍💻Remote work advocate 🌍 Data, systems and operational efficiency 🤖

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Remember: The water may look calm, but the crocodiles are always lurking.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

These Are 11 Things Stoics DON'T Do:

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Hard work is cool but do you know what really makes startup successful? A bunch of people willing to pick up whatever task has to get done that’s potentially way outside their comfort zone.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Zoom fatigue is not burnout. It’s boreout.

New study: when meetings are virtual, we’re not overwhelmed—we’re understimulated. Cardiac measures show drowsiness, not stress.

The antidotes are common sense but not common practice: fewer, shorter, more interactive online meetings.

[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

@MrGSimpson @BBCRosAtkins This is next on my list! 😄

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

A Ph.D. in economics who spent a decade in data analysis just became the CTO of Netflix

[David Perell @david_perell]

If you're early in your career and want to stand out, start writing. Take notes. Write the plan. Take charge of the next internal memo.

"The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power." — @pmarca

[Julian Hoffmann Anton @Julian_H0ffmann]

Mapmakers! Post your favorite maps you’ve made

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

I have my guiding motto on a wall in my house. It’s a quote from George Bernard Shaw that says: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

I am not sure about other entrepreneurs, but for me being unreasonable is a difficult thing. Like many others, I struggle with wanting to be liked.

So seeing this on my wall every day when I wake up serves as a reminder to not worry about conforming, and to persist. Because without it, companies such as Spotify and many others wouldn't exist.

[Amanda Goetz @AmandaMGoetz]

The fastest way to slow down a team?
Take away their day to day decision making ability.

Want to move fast?
1. Align on goals (what success looks like)
2. Align on strategy (how we will achieve it)
3. Align on resources (budget & team)

and then get out of their way.

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

My rule of thumb for career success, back in corporate America, used to be a simple two-step:

1) Add Value
2) Make Noise

But due to the changing environment, I’ve been telling my engineering friends a third step:

3) Make Noise far outside your organization four walls

[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

@ergestx Love this idea

[delian @zebulgar]

What people DON'T REALIZE is how IMPORTANT it is to set yourself up for an ULTRA PRODUCTIVE WEEK on Sundays with these SUNDAY HABITS

Below are a few ways I get myself setup for an ULTRA PRODUCTIVE WEEK:

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[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

🙂 every time

[Amanda Goetz @AmandaMGoetz]

What's the most passive aggressive emoji to use on someone?

[📈 Growth Startup Jobs @AllGrowthJobs]

.@feeldCo is hiring 👉 Data Analyst, Growth (remote) https://t.co/8QyzwQXkhq

[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

@ArynnPost Makes a lot of sense. If you’re in the ‘right’ kind of data org you really see how the company works as a whole.

[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

@ArynnPost But you are right - it’s not easy. Spending time up front thinking about design is important.

Someone once said to me that working in data is working in change management - that always stuck in my head.

[Dina Mohammad-Laity @dinamohammad]

@ArynnPost Two come to mind.
1. Airflow to stitch for extract and load
2. Airflow to dbt for transformations
Both for analyst/developer experience and speed of delivery to the end user. Can spend way more time on data UX than tweaking rickety pipelines.