“This overconsumption causes harm to the environment, and of course, by the nature of

8 min readDec 5, 2020

Star (and un-star). Even if you mostly do a good job of naming and organizing your files and folders, it can be a hassle to go digging for the file you want at any given moment. So when you know you’re going to be using a specific file frequently for a time, add a star. Drive keeps the folder of starred items easily visible in your main navigation menu. When your project wraps and you’re not using that file much anymore, don’t forget to un-star it.
Name your files consistently. I always name my files in the format YEAR-MM-DD ProjectName DescriptiveDocName. So for example, this file started as 2020–08–05 GDriveForge IntroDraft. That way files sorted by name will be chronological, and it’s easy to search for the name of the project, or the date (even if it’s just a ballpark date) when I remember working on something.
Install the Sheets and Docs apps on all your mobile devices. I never think I’m going to look at a spreadsheet on my phone — until the moment a client emails me an urgent question when I’m out on a walk. The mobile apps aren’t as powerful and easy to use as the desktop browser versions — they can be fiddly to use and lack some key features — but they’re useful in a pinch.

It’s common for a stakeholder to ask for one thing but mean something else because they can’t articulate what they want. A great data analyst will dig deeper to understand what’s driving the request and deliver what is actually needed.

The impact of the 21 books on this list lingers well after the final page-turn, helping us make sense of our recent past and present. They also give us the tools to forge the best path forward, for ourselves and for the world we want. They’re the new self-help.

For example, let’s say you support the marketing department for an online retail company. The marketing manager would like to make changes to the website and asks what KPIs should be used to measure success. Since you took the time to understand the business you’re able to ask the right questions to recommend appropriate KPIs such as conversion rate and average order value to measure success.

I was once asked to pull user level data that wouldn’t fit into an Excel worksheet because it was more than one million rows. I knew it was going to be a nightmare for my stakeholder to load into Excel because of memory constraints. I asked why this data was needed and based on the context I was able to provide the view my stakeholder really wanted with a few thousand rows of data.
Keep shared files in a separate folder from private files. To keep track of which file is shared with whom, I keep clearly labeled subfolders in any project folder, with labels like Acme Project: Just me, Acme Project: Internal team, and Acme Project: Shared with client.
I lay awake listening to this drummer and thinking of a thing I had seen eight hours earlier: a countdown clock recently unveiled in Union Square in Manhattan. The clock itself was not new, I was in a student at NYU a few blocks away when it first appeared as what I thought was an art project about maybe…time…or something. I was entranced by it. I would sit in the park, smoking cigarettes and watching the numbers insist themselves over the city, its bright light like a twitchy funhouse mirror of Times Square, counting either down or up, either quickly or slowly depending on which particular number you were watching. It was chaotic and about nothing. It was huge. I thought, at the time, that the piece was weird, stressful and brilliant. In 1999 things did feel that way to me, that we were, all of us, counting down toward something, though it was unclear exactly what. Maybe just the formless anxiety of living at the fin of the century. Things were ending, but we didn’t know which things. Things were over but we didn’t know what “over” meant.

The variable, agriculture, will be how many “units” of food each person produces. One unit of food feeds a person for a single year. In our simulation, each person must eat one unit of food every year or they will die. Therefore, if agriculture is exactly 1 in a given year, everyone eats. If it is 0.5, fifty percent of the population dies. If it is 1.5, there is a fifty percent excess of food, and this can be stored and used as a backup if the agriculture in the next year is not enough to support the population.
“I think that the fires in California are tied to the racial inequality that is happening,” Faller tells in the Chronicle. “So all of these things are really interwoven and they’re intertwined. You need to look to those who have had that relationship with the land […] what better time to do that than around this holiday?”
As the editors of Forge and many of our Medium colleagues created this list, we looked for truly life-changing ideas. If you’re not ready to take the leap on a full book, we have also published excerpts from most of the books we selected, linked below.

“GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.”

Rather than offering markdowns or sales (which inadvertently widen the disparity gaps between consumers and underpaid workers), the collective is encouraging customers to support businesses driven by communities who have historically been disenfranchised by consumerism.

To become a great data analyst, it’s important to understand the company business, how the company makes money, and to learn the KPIs used to measure success. Once you learn the business and KPIs you’ll be able connect your stakeholder request to the business and the impact they want to drive.
And given how this year’s climate-change-driven wildfires fueled “racial inequality,” Faller knew she needed to help shift the paradigm of the day to one of philanthropy rather than outright profit.
Our next variable is infantMortality. This is the chance of a child dying in their first year of life. Our World in Data estimates an average infant mortality rate of ~25% over the past two millennia. I’ll use that because it can give us a good historical simulation.

“This overconsumption causes harm to the environment, and of course, by the nature of

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