My update isn't exciting but it is important. I need people to know this stuff or I'll be fielding questions on it for the next 6 months as everyone individually discovers the changes.

I'm not going to spend time rewriting my update to sound thrilling and engaging in order to attract the eyes of the lowest common denominators attention span.

So we have a meeting, everyone listens, and if they say afterwards that they weren't told or weren't paying attention, there's a recording of the zoom call so they can try again.

It's work, if it were fun and enjoyable 100% of the time we wouldn't be paid to be there.

I think it's an occupational hazard. If you don't have people interested in numbers you don't have finance people and analytics people. The people who are interested in numbers are unfortunately also generally the kind of people that don't understand that other people aren't interested in numbers. There are correlating data with excitement because it's what they feel.

Or analytics guy was having a rough week and said he was burning out from dealing with The analytics report. On the 6th it does this and on the 8th it did this and the 9th we had this sale. 99% of the people in the meeting only care that it's up and to the right, flat, or down into the right

The graph technically needs two to three points on it and you need to explain why it's aimed in whatever direction it's aimed.