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Short essays on evaluation practice — the parts of the work that don’t make it into the report. Updated as the work prompts them.

  1. Apr 29, 2026 · 6 min read

    Naming the question is the work

    A note from a Jaron Lanier talk at Brown, brought back to the evaluation table: the highest-leverage move in any engagement is the one made before any data is collected.

  2. Apr 29, 2026 · 5 min read

    Dashboard delivery isn’t dashboard utilization

    Most evaluations end at the moment the report is sent. The work I’m most often asked to do begins about three weeks later.