BEAUTY

In simplicity

Passion in what you do, dedication in how you do it.

There is honesty in simplicity, whether in data management, photography, or cooking. Start from the fundamentals and let complexity grow naturally

  • Where Medallion Architecture and Canonical Models Actually Meet

    Where Medallion Architecture and Canonical Models Actually Meet

    Medallion architecture has become the default mental model for organizing a data platform: land raw data in Bronze, clean and conform it in Silver, serve trusted, business-ready data from Gold. It’s simple, it’s intuitive, and it works, right up until three teams build three different “customer” tables and nobody can agree on the number in…

  • Losing You Twice

    Losing You Twice

    Losing you once broke my heart.Losing you twice broke the part of methat had learned to live without you. I thought time would soften the ache,but grief has a way of finding its way home. There are no words for this silence,only memories that lingerand love that refuses to fade. Grief is love with nowhere…

  • Distributed Attribute Ownership Specification – Template

    Distributed Attribute Ownership Specification – Template

    What this describes: how ownership/responsibility for a single data attribute is distributed across multiple parties, and how that responsibility hands off as the attribute (or its governing lifecycle) moves through states. Fill in every ‹ › placeholder. Delete the guidance notes when done. 1. Identity Field Value Attribute ‹name of the attribute being governed› Type / shape ‹e.g.…

  • Differentiated VAT Won’t Break Anything

    Differentiated VAT Won’t Break Anything

    Every time differentiated VAT comes up, the same chorus predicts the apocalypse. Accountants drowning, shops seizing up, chaos erupting, the economy collapsing because, we’d apply more than one rate. It’s nonsense Multiple VAT rates are the global default. Germany, France, Sweden, nearly every country runs several rates at once and has for decades, on the…