Sekou Tyler

#DuBoisChallenge2022 @ajstarks @aldatavizguy The #DuBoisChallenge2022 will last 10 weeks. The goal is to recreate W.E.B. Du Bois data visualizations with a modern tool. Datasets and rules can be found here -> github.com/ajstarks/duboi…

@engineering_bae Completely new stuff but I took the hint tho 😂

@sqlsekou 🤣 same as hers but your own bottle? Or some completely new stuff just for you?

My husband is slowly but surely quietly migrating to using all of my face, hair, and skin products. He thinks I don’t notice but I’m hot on his trail 😂

@techgirl1908 🔥🔥🔥🔥

As a people leader, I am very intentional about developing my employees and their careers. That sounds obvious but so many leaders only care about the business objectives. I care about both and find ways to make these overlap. I lost my entire team this year due to layoffs but every one of them landed a new role in like a month or so, even in a super tough and competitive market, because I was deliberate about preparing them not just for this job but also the next. They're so amazing 🥹

@kurtbuhler ‼️‼️‼️‼️ I agree 100000%

One of the most valuable things that you can do to accelerate your learning and career right now with AI & agents is to stop thinking in terms of tools and platforms. Don't box yourself in; do the opposite. For instance, don't think only about Power BI if you're a "power bi" person; likewise for Tableau, Qlik, etc. You don't have to be the person anymore and I don't think it's helpful to think that way right now, at all. Zoom out. Focus on the actual business problems and agnostic theory in your professional or interest space - both horizontally and vertically. Consider in that problem space what useful, effective (in cost and results) solutions actually look like. Be as much as possible solution and value-driven. Step outside your comfort zone and your stack / vendor bubble and look broadly at what's happening in your market. Experiment and think outside the box; flex your brain and try things that seems outlandishly outside of your expertise area. You will experience some helpful friction and learn a lot. If you are continuously focusing on using AI and agents with one specific tool or platform it's a bit the equivalent of using a power drill to make a better screwdriver. It might be the easiest and most immediately helpful in your job, but i don't think it's the most effective path forward for personal development (it might even be dangerous or counter productive). I don't think it's the best way to prepare for what this next "era" is shaping out to be.

@engineering_bae 🔥🔥🔥 I remembered the first time me and my wife filed together and i was shocked at the numbers. Such a blessing lol

Changing my tax filing to "married filing jointly" dropped my massive tax bill by 40%. Bless it 😭

New Ten Minute Tuesday 🎙️ Usually I'm interviewing someone. Today I put myself on the clock. The challenge: build a Lakers dashboard in 10 min using only my voice. No keyboard. Just Claude + @motherduck . Did I pull it off? 👀 youtu.be/ydWVzIDhb3Y

Me reviewing the code written by Claude before pushing it to production.

@engineering_bae Let’s go!!! Congrats!

Four years ago, I joined Spotify Advertising not knowing how much it would shape me. I found mentors I didn't expect. Challenges that stretched me. And coworkers who became some of my favorite humans. But growth has a funny way of pointing you toward the next door — and mine is now wide open. I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining Spotify's Music Mission. Ads gave me a foundation I'll carry forever. Now I get to take everything I've learned and pour it into the other side of this incredible company — helping bring music to the world in an even bigger way. New chapter. Same passion. Let's go. 🎵

@kurtbuhler The formatting with the new card visuals drives me insane. So many clicks. Looking forward to diving into this!

When it comes to agentic development of power bi reports, I see many people who focus on conversion of wireframes / images to reports. I get why - it makes an impressive demo. But it has nothing to do with the areas where people actually spend and waste time in pbi. In power bi you waste the most time by far with the formatting pane. It has an egregious click tax. I have had a project where it took me longer to format a bespoke new card visuals than it did to make the entire semantic model and that's not an exaggeration - I measured it. That's why I started experimenting with agentic dev of power bi reports. That's why we made the pbir CLI. I wanted to never have to use the formatting pane again, and barring some fine tuning at the end of the report creation process, I think we accomplished that goal. However the CLI does way more than that. I tried to include commands for every single pain in the butt task in pbi: - Converting pbix to pbip and back - Detecting pbir and legacy format - Splitting thick into thin reports or vice versa - Applying theme after clearing formatting - Find and replace of fields or colors - Identifying theme compliance - Pushing formatting from report to theme or vice versa - Rebinding reports, fields or visuals - Moving reports, filters, bookmarks, pages, and visuals - Dealing with thin reports measures and visual calcs Etc etc etc. Check it out. github.com/maxanatsko/pbi…

We're releasing the PBIR CLI shortly in the next days (some late issues with the distribution). We already published the pbir-cli skill a few days ago to help testers and get it integrated with the plugins. github.com/data-goblin/po… But someone already capitalized on this - it strongly seems they pointed their agent at the skill and told it "make this" to slap together a CLI that works as the skill describes. They didn't even change the commands, flags, and even took the skills. They just shuffled skill content around in the markdowns, then published it on their own repo. Of course they didn't have the source code so what's behind it isn't comparable... we have a full schema-driven object model, for instance. We knew this would likely happen when I started sharing the plugins. We anticipated it; it's obvious - it's why we never bothered trying to commercialize this. It seemed almost inevitable. We didn't anticipate it would happen so quickly, though! The commit trail is literally 1-2 days apart. Better than hours I guess. This is just the way it is now. Anyone can just point their slopcannon at something shared and then copy it, make some noise, and benefit... in a matter of days or less. The work speaks for itself, but still - it's clear that whatever new era we're entering plays by some different rules.

I recreated this Tableau dashboard in @MotherDuck using Claude + MCP. Under an hour and zero handwritten code Find your favorite viz on Tableau Public and try it yourself. Blog post live 👇 sqlsekou.substack.com/p/building-a-t…

#FabCon 2026 was the best conference I have ever attended and I do not say that lightly. Read the full breakdown here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/sqlsekou/p…?

Like recover all business controls ... tracking royalties ... locating money ... finding reg flags ... planning ... organizing years of information ... creating family office structure... business navigation ... I've been waiting my whole life for tools like this!

The scene in #Gentry. #SelectionSunday | @TSUTigersMBB #RoarCity #HBCU

Let’s go!!!! #TSU

@TSUTigersMBB are headed to St. Louis to take down Iowa State! #SelectionSunday #TSU #HBCU #OVC

@walls_jason1 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

@SymoneBeez 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I got accepted into Georgia Tech's Cyber Physical Systems Masters program 🥳

‼️‼️So many of us are winging it 😂 Just get started! Great advice from @engineering_bae