Matt Duffy

Last week I saw a tweet that made me recall a Coast Guard unit I’d heard about years ago, and haven’t thought about much since. The location of the station was bad, but it was a bad station for a lot of reasons unrelated to location. It made

In recent weeks, two major tech topics have come to the forefront, both in some ways tied to US-China relations. The first is new regulation, aimed at TikTok, due to the behavior of the TikTok “algorithm” and the perceived ties between TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and the Chinese government.

I was going to hold off on publishing this until later this week, but recent events made it feel somewhat relevant. I can’t stop thinking about this article in the financial times. It’s a fascinating example of how we develop myths that help instill pride in our collective

Jerome Powell, and the Fed, met the consensus expectation for their March meeting and decided to raise interest rates by 25 bps to continue combating inflation. This was hardly a foregone conclusion, though. Before the meetings, Powell sounded more hawkish, raising the possibility that the Fed would increase rates by

Today's post takes a journey from fatherhood to corporate strategy and I think the way we get there makes sense. As I discussed a bit in my intro, some of these posts will have a personal essay flavor. I am not the kind of person that plays up

Some throat clearing before we get into it: thanks to everyone who read and gave me some feedback on the first blog. I'm thrilled with the response and will try very hard to continue to provide something worthy of your time. This post may be the start of

Over the weekend you may have heard about the Silicon Valley Bank crisis. I won’t get too deeply into the details, but the short version is the bank ran into a liquidity crisis, meaning it was essentially cash poor, and when its depositors got wind of that there was

Welcome! I’m Matt Duffy, a data generalist and strategist who has decided to go back to 2006 and do the en vogue thing, start a blog. This is not my first rodeo, I made two halfhearted blogging efforts just over a decade ago. Those blogs were bad, unfocused, and