Writing for the week of January 19, 2026

I’ve open-sourced the Schemabook app I had built. It had been a little while since I had made any changes to it. I decided late last year to shut it down. It was missing some key features like AWS and Databricks integration. Maybe Dbt and Fivetran as well. It served its purpose, but was going to need a full-time staff behind it in order to foster adoption in the greater data ecosystem. I think there is still an opportunity in helping stakeholders collaborate, but it’s not a one-person job. Enterprise sales is a completely different beast than, say, launching on the app store. I had a lot of plans for it, but needed help. Being a solopreneur is a challenging task. You have to arrange design partners, build features, do all the operations, and ultimately market what you are building. It was fun. I enjoyed it. But I would prefer to work on things with other people and build camaraderie in addition to features.

I’ve also been reading the book Chatter by Ethan Kross. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about understanding and taming the voice in our heads. I’m an insomniac and know I catastrophize while laying awake at night. This book covers how we talk to ourselves. The tone. The perspective. The rituals. I thought it was great so I’m now jumping directly into the author’s new book called Shift. It’s all about emotions. If it’s written like Chatter, I think I’m really going to enjoy it.

Some articles caught my attention this week. Most were around planning and resolutions. It’s that time of year. Links below.

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Links

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work - I’ve linked to this before and keep coming back to it.

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Music

Nitzer Ebb remix - Murderous is one of those songs from my youth that will always represent the energy of my teenage years. I love it. This remix is great. Love the highlight of the metal bar sound.

Atomic Bomb - Fluke cover by Cyanotic out of Chicago has been an ear worm for me lately.

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