76: Why a Data Team Should Limit Its Own Superpowers with Sean Halliburton of CNN

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Sean’s career journey (3:27)
• Optimization and localized testing results (7:49)
• Denying potential access to more data (13:46)
• Other dimensions data has (18:32)
• The other side of capturing events (20:55)
• Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03)
• SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40)
• How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38)
• Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08)
• Communicating about data (38:36)
• The next phase of tooling (41:49)
• Advice for aspiring managers (45:21)

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