How AI Is Quietly Changing the Way We Think, Work and Make Decisions
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as if it is something that is coming. Something that will transform our lives in the future. Something businesses need to prepare for. Something workers need to understand before it arrives. But the truth is much simpler. AI is already here. It is already influencing how we work, what we […]
Charles Mulwa on 20 Years in Data Leadership: From Citi to Southwest Airlines
Twenty years ago, I was staring at a spreadsheet of consumer payment histories at Citi, and I had no idea what it was trying to tell me. Rows of numbers, no story. It took time, mentorship, and a lot of trial and error before I understood the gap between having data and having insight, and […]
The Death of the Traditional Data Warehouse Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
By Charles Mulwa Every few years, someone declares the data warehouse dead. I heard it when Hadoop showed up and everyone insisted schema-on-read would make schema-on-write obsolete. I heard it again when the data lake became the buzzword of the decade. Now it’s the lakehouse, real-time streaming architectures, and a wave of AI-native platforms all […]
After 20+ Years in Data Leadership, Here Are the 10 Mistakes I See Companies Make Again and Again
My name is Charles Mulwa, and I’ve spent more than 20 years working in data leadership – as a database administrator, a data strategist, and, more often than I’d like, as the person called in after something has already gone wrong. In that time, I’ve sat in boardrooms where seven-figure data initiatives got approved on […]