Martin Remy

  • Haste is your weakest lever

    Or, how to really help your team go faster. Speed matters in shipping products. Unfortunately, there is no single gas pedal labeled “speed to market.” Just saying “go faster” to your team shows that you lack any curiosity about why there’s a mismatch between expectations and reality. What your team heard is, “You’re lazy,” which… Read more ⇢

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    Haste is your weakest lever

  • The distributed opportunity

    A new reality After a surge of optimism about re-opening the world and all of its offices, we’re now in uncertain times again with fourth waves of Covid-19 raging in many countries. In March and April 2020, many knowledge workers were suddenly thrust into a new way of working. For some, this meant having to… Read more ⇢

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  • Hiring better: Assessing communication

    Lessons from hiring for the Data team at Bevy. One of our core values is “communicate like a legend,” and it’s about communicating with respect, candor, clarity, courage, and empathy. We are building for the long term at Bevy, so it’s also about communicating to our future selves and future colleagues. Of all the attributes we… Read more ⇢

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  • Up or down

    America was a roller coaster over the weekend. Watching a SpaceX rocket lift off from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center and deliver two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station was exhilarating, even more so because my son worked on the spacecraft. I’m glad that America hasn’t given up on space, as it… Read more ⇢

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  • Word Sequentialization

    In some ways, “data visualization” is a terrible term. It seems to reduce the construction of good charts to a mechanical procedure. It evokes the tools and methodology required to create rather than the creation itself. It’s like calling Moby-Dick a “word sequentialization” or The Starry Night a “pigment distribution.” It also reflects an ongoing obsession in the dataviz… Read more ⇢

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