Welcome to the first issue of The Abundant Analyst: a tactical resource for early-to-mid career analysts, program managers, and other generalist roles in technology organizations.
This is what I wish I’d had in my back pocket when I started my career as an analyst: regular content designed to help me excel in my role. We’ll start as a newsletter and, if my writing doesn’t totally suck, we may expand to in-person events in the future.
Here’s me: I’m Sam Reddy and I’ve spent much of the last decade in technology organizations big and small. Out of college, I was an analyst-level foreign exchange trader at Amazon. After that, I entered growth-stage tech and have yet to look back. To date, I’ve been a program manager, an analyst, a data scientist, and an analyst manager in bizops, finance, and product organizations where I’ve had the opportunity to learn from some of the best generalists in the industry.
During my time in technology, I’ve encountered role-specific resources (like this) for engineers, product managers, marketers, and others in better-defined functions. I’ve yet to find what’s needed for the rest of us, united by our familiarity with the question “but what do you (pause) do?” It’s my hope that this will be a place for what I’ll call “generalists” to congregate, occasionally commiserate, and learn.
So, If you’re an analyst, a program manager, an operations manager, or have a job title that starts with “strategic” or ends with something like “and analytics,” welcome. If you’re new to the industry, or if you’re not, welcome. And if you’re my partner, Rachel, thanks for being my first reader — and welcome.
In summary, this is:
Content designed to help early-to-mid career generalists in technology organizations
A growing community for the aforementioned folks but open to all who are interested
A work in progress
This is not:
Anyone telling you what to do
Good writing
Great. So, what’s next? We’ll start with a discussion of a concept that’s super important across roles and tricky to get right: managing complexity. See you there.
Take care,
Sam