Not Again

rambling about testing again

Friday, Brent and I met (virtually) to record an episode of AB Testing. As usual, we didn't start with a topic, but I had an idea, and it was going pretty well - a better-than-average podcast. About 40 minutes in, Brent was ranting, and I interrupted him...

Stop.

STOP!

Given how much of a bad time I usually give Brent, he looked at me like I was about to tell him to stop fidgeting or playing with his microphone or ....

But that wasn't it - Brent was on a roll and telling a good story. A few seconds earlier I discovered that I forgot to press Record. After 201 episodes (plus a series of one off interviews), I finally really blew it. Rather than start over, we decided to scrap it and try again another day.

How It Started

Saturday (yesterday), I started writing a post about metrics. My very first conference presentation as about metrics, so I thought I’d dig up a few embarrassing slides to kick things off. I dug into my archived docs and found the presentation - but also at least thirty other…