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Why I'm No Longer “Tableau Tim”
“Stepping back from the Visionary badge — independence over access, and room to cover the whole field, not one vendor.”
No. 624 Feb 2026Metrics, Apps, & Sigma's Big Bet
“This is why we keep building the wrong thing.”
No. 513 Feb 2026Part 2: The Slow Erosion of Product Intuition
“They lived it, they didn't measure it.”
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No. 4Part 1: When Breadth and Depth Become a Liability
“Why Tableau Next serves the wrong customer.”
No. 3The Semantic Layer Has a Semantics Problem
“OSI wants universal definitions. First, they need to define “semantic”.”
No. 2Where most of the job actually is
“The upstream work we never talk about is becoming the most valuable skill in analytics.”
No. 1What's next for Tableau Tim?
“Sharing what I know, exploring what I don't.”