Insights and thoughts

Candlestick charts show what traders felt during a session, not only where the price went. On their own they are not enough. I found they work best when I read them alongside indicators such as Bollinger Bands, ADX and RSI. After reading Steve Nison's book, I see price charts as a visual record of fear, hope and hesitation.

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer offers eight scales for understanding how national cultures differ at work. This article breaks down each of the book's eight chapters, explains the scale behind it, and links to The Culture Map, Visualised.

I built Film Recipe Base, a free web app that collects, cleans, and organises Fujifilm film recipes from across the internet into one searchable, filterable database. Along the way, I used data scraping, feature engineering, K-Means clustering, and Plotly visualisations, all wrapped inside a Dash web app and deployed with Docker on Railway.

Correlation tells you that two things move together. Causation tells you why. This article explores the difference between the two, introduces classical and modern methods for identifying true causes, and highlights the cognitive biases that lead us astray when we confuse the two.

Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations nearly 2,000 years ago, but his ideas about objectivity, fallibility, and teamwork align surprisingly well with modern data analytics. This article draws parallels between selected passages from Meditations and core thinking skills every analyst needs.

The mean is the most commonly used measure of central tendency, but it only works well when data follows a normal, bell-shaped distribution. In most real-world cases, the median is a more reliable and robust indicator of what is typical.

Buying newer and better tech feels like a productivity upgrade, but it rarely is. The real bottleneck is rarely the tool; it is the knowledge and habits behind it. Limitations, in contrast, can make you sharper.

Most businesses collect data but few manage it well. This article explains what a proper data strategy looks like, how to assess where your organisation stands today, and how to use the PAC Method to build one step by step.

A practical guide to better decision-making. Key points from Shane Parrish's book: recognise your defaults, build inner strength, protect yourself with safeguards, improve how you make decisions, and live a life aligned with what matters.