Big record labels and FinOps practitioners make the same mistake
Music touches the soul but labels are missing the point
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Missing defaults in every day products
You can see the power of defaults on things that do not have default but should.
Your dashboard is lying (but not the way you think)
Cloud vendors mark cost data as provisional until month-end billing is finalised, yet most FinOps dashboards ignore that and display mid-month numbers as truth. In …
Graph clarity toolkit
A practical system for creating visuals that tell the truth and reveal the story IntroductionThis toolkit helps you do two things: Create visuals that tell a clear, …
Why architecture fails to impress executives, and how the FC method solves it
Most architecture diagrams fail because they show components, not meaning. The FC method fixes this by mapping use cases and shaping components by cost, revealing how …
(Sub) Are you throwing numbers at people, or telling them a story they can actually use?
Most charts show numbers, not meaning. This note introduces PSDDW—the five elements every number needs to tell a clear story—and the tiny story that makes it …
Tooltips and x-axis - that was harder than expected
My experience with implementing tooltips and x-axis functionality in data visualization
Tools to draw a Wardley Map
List of tools and methods to create Wardley Maps