Evan Colmenares

“Data-informed and data-driven companies have a very different philosophy at their core. Where data-informed companies place more emphasis on the simple usage of data to make more informed decisions regarding the company and how it’s run, data-driven companies instead use data at their very core and use it to form almost every decision.”
― James Edge, Lean Analytics: The Ultimate Guide to an Agile Way of Analytics, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science for a Superior Way to Build Startups and Run Enterprises

“She described her new treatment with a topical chemotherapy that came in the form of a potent cream that she applied, wearing gloves, to burn off the cancerous areas—then she produced a package of the stuff from the bathroom so I could see how mundane this lifesaving medication looked. I blinked in disbelief as she held up what resembled a tube of toothpaste, and explained that each one cost over two thousand dollars. Or that’s what it would cost, if not for the insurance she had purchased through the health insurance exchanges that had been set up as part of Obamacare. I thought—and spoke—of that moment often, later, as I talked about why health policy was not a theoretical question for our family.”
― Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future