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Data Gibberish
Data Gibberish
Data Gibberish helps experienced data engineers and data leads handle stakeholder requests, scope pressure, and decision-making with scripts, checklists, and playbooks you can use immediately.

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Entropy Is The Default In Data
The most common sound in a data team’s Slack channel is the collective sigh of a developer who just realized their last month of work is now officially…
 • Yordan Ivanov
How To Stop Waiting For Permission To Lead Data Engineering
If you want to be a Staff Engineer you need to start thinking about the business logic before the code.
 • Yordan Ivanov
Your Stakeholder is Wrong (and it’s Your Fault)
If you’re waiting for a stakeholder to bless your logic, you are just an expensive, slow version of an LLM.
 • Yordan Ivanov
The Project Entry Manual That Stops Absorbing Undefined Work
A practical system for turning vague requests into frozen specs, staged delivery, and non-negotiable exit criteria.
 • Yordan Ivanov
Your Tooling Choices Reveal More Than Your Architecture
Why copying Big Tech stacks is often just professional incompetence with better branding
 • Yordan Ivanov
The Ideas That Made Data Engineers Impossible to Ignore in 2025
What worked, what didn’t, and what engineers actually responded to in 2025.
 • Yordan Ivanov
Where Your Data Team Sits Is a Strategic Decision
Why Finance, R&D, and “Independent” Data Teams Optimize for Very Different Outcomes, and how to choose deliberately
 • Yordan Ivanov
Data Platforms Exist to Enforce Consistency, Not Enable Insight
Most data teams think they’re building insight engines. What they’re really shipping is interpretive control
 • Yordan Ivanov
Technical Content Planning System for Data Engineers Who Write
How to plan, schedule, and ship long-form writing using the same process you use for data work
 • Yordan Ivanov
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