Benn's Newsletter

Benn Stancil, a data industry veteran and former Mode Analytics co-founder, writes long essays here on the incentives and contradictions baked into the data tools world — why certain products get built, why certain metrics get gamed, why "data-driven" often means less than it sounds like.

It's dense, argumentative, and doesn't pretend to be neutral, which is exactly why people in the data industry pass individual essays around. This isn't a quick-read roundup; it's closer to long-form criticism aimed at people who already work in the field and want to see its assumptions challenged.