Meeting Title: ABC Standup Date: 2025-09-30 Meeting participants: Samuel Roberts, Mustafa Raja
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1 00:00:32.490 ⇒ 00:00:33.390 Mustafa Raja: Hey…
2 00:00:40.600 ⇒ 00:00:42.149 Samuel Roberts: Okay, there we go, I was muted.
3 00:00:43.070 ⇒ 00:00:43.870 Mustafa Raja: Hey.
4 00:00:45.780 ⇒ 00:00:46.620 Samuel Roberts: How’s it going?
5 00:00:47.760 ⇒ 00:00:48.939 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, doing good.
6 00:00:50.130 ⇒ 00:00:52.200 Samuel Roberts: I just took a look at the interlude stuff.
7 00:00:52.790 ⇒ 00:00:53.860 Samuel Roberts: And there was some weird boat.
8 00:00:53.860 ⇒ 00:00:55.539 Mustafa Raja: The CSV just or something?
9 00:00:56.030 ⇒ 00:00:56.670 Samuel Roberts: Sorry?
10 00:00:57.250 ⇒ 00:01:00.359 Mustafa Raja: The CSVs, or… Oh, the… okay, okay.
11 00:01:00.510 ⇒ 00:01:03.659 Mustafa Raja: The… The Slack interlude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
12 00:01:04.030 ⇒ 00:01:08.189 Samuel Roberts: And there was some weird bolding on the final thing, I don’t think I…
13 00:01:08.780 ⇒ 00:01:09.400 Mustafa Raja: Oh, God.
14 00:01:09.400 ⇒ 00:01:10.010 Samuel Roberts: And I’ll be…
15 00:01:10.010 ⇒ 00:01:11.460 Mustafa Raja: Don’t like the bold, we can remove it.
16 00:01:11.460 ⇒ 00:01:15.179 Samuel Roberts: Not for everything. I think it’s hard to read once it’s in there, no?
17 00:01:15.180 ⇒ 00:01:18.009 Mustafa Raja: Let me see, and
18 00:01:18.420 ⇒ 00:01:21.689 Mustafa Raja: Wait, let me pull it up so we can take a look together.
19 00:01:21.690 ⇒ 00:01:27.300 Samuel Roberts: Oh, don’t worry about it right now, I think we’re… we should be hopping on ABC, cool. But I just left a quick comment on there, and we can talk about it after.
20 00:01:27.940 ⇒ 00:01:28.600 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
21 00:01:29.280 ⇒ 00:01:33.710 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah, I see. I missed it. Yeah, everything is pulled.
22 00:01:35.590 ⇒ 00:01:37.900 Mustafa Raja: Okay, this is a good insight.
23 00:01:38.230 ⇒ 00:01:39.090 Mustafa Raja: Thank you.
24 00:01:40.280 ⇒ 00:01:45.480 Samuel Roberts: Okay, cool. Yeah, I just… I don’t know how it looks in Notion, because I can’t see that, but, I assume it’s still…
25 00:01:46.120 ⇒ 00:01:47.159 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, it’s onboarded.
26 00:01:47.160 ⇒ 00:01:51.630 Samuel Roberts: Legit… probably just the… whatchamacallit? The headings there.
27 00:01:52.440 ⇒ 00:01:56.239 Mustafa Raja: I guess, yeah, yeah, the bullets, they don’t need to be bolded.
28 00:01:57.530 ⇒ 00:01:59.979 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, each one of those is probably good. Headings are fun.
29 00:01:59.980 ⇒ 00:02:00.690 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
30 00:02:03.270 ⇒ 00:02:05.219 Samuel Roberts: Who are we waiting on? Ender…
31 00:02:05.220 ⇒ 00:02:06.690 Mustafa Raja: I think Amber.
32 00:02:07.550 ⇒ 00:02:08.430 Samuel Roberts: Just answer?
33 00:02:15.280 ⇒ 00:02:15.950 Samuel Roberts: Okay.
34 00:02:18.120 ⇒ 00:02:19.330 Mustafa Raja: How’s your day going?
35 00:02:20.380 ⇒ 00:02:22.149 Samuel Roberts: Going pretty well.
36 00:02:24.250 ⇒ 00:02:24.920 Mustafa Raja: See?
37 00:02:26.280 ⇒ 00:02:28.240 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I was digging into the,
38 00:02:29.310 ⇒ 00:02:34.760 Samuel Roberts: the SOP for the client hubs, because I was trying to get a plan together for I think…
39 00:02:34.760 ⇒ 00:02:37.599 Mustafa Raja: The meeting got canceled just now.
40 00:02:37.600 ⇒ 00:02:40.560 Samuel Roberts: No, I think that’s the handoff meeting I had with him after this.
41 00:02:41.330 ⇒ 00:02:44.140 Mustafa Raja: I’m looking at calendar… I was supposed to handle.
42 00:02:44.140 ⇒ 00:02:45.159 Samuel Roberts: the transcripts.
43 00:02:46.390 ⇒ 00:02:49.010 Mustafa Raja: Oh, so you need to be in other… yeah.
44 00:02:49.010 ⇒ 00:02:53.660 Samuel Roberts: No, no, no. After this, Awesha and I were meeting, To hand over the transcripts.
45 00:02:54.310 ⇒ 00:02:59.419 Mustafa Raja: But my calendar, just, updated and… Abcs in there.
46 00:03:03.000 ⇒ 00:03:04.049 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, technical industry.
47 00:03:04.050 ⇒ 00:03:04.660 Samuel Roberts: Bye.
48 00:03:05.320 ⇒ 00:03:08.480 Mustafa Raja: Check the Google Calendar, I think this meeting is canceled.
49 00:03:11.020 ⇒ 00:03:13.509 Samuel Roberts: Oh. Oh, it just disappeared completely?
50 00:03:14.040 ⇒ 00:03:17.750 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I just… I just got a notification for email.
51 00:03:17.750 ⇒ 00:03:20.719 Samuel Roberts: I literally just saw it and responded. That’s so odd.
52 00:03:20.720 ⇒ 00:03:22.970 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
53 00:03:22.970 ⇒ 00:03:27.039 Samuel Roberts: I hadn’t actually said yes, so I said yes, and then it disappeared. Alright.
54 00:03:27.480 ⇒ 00:03:32.349 Samuel Roberts: That’s really weird. I guess they just had a call with ABC, so maybe we’re not worrying about it right now.
55 00:03:32.350 ⇒ 00:03:39.540 Mustafa Raja: But… Amber said that… This, pausing work on the transcript or something.
56 00:03:39.780 ⇒ 00:03:41.939 Samuel Roberts: I saw that.
57 00:03:46.050 ⇒ 00:03:48.719 Mustafa Raja: I mean, I don’t even have context on this.
58 00:03:49.040 ⇒ 00:03:52.519 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, yeah, no, the transcripts, we were trying to figure out if we could get them from 8x8.
59 00:03:53.890 ⇒ 00:03:56.609 Samuel Roberts: And I was trying to do some matching with Andy to demo it, but…
60 00:03:57.620 ⇒ 00:04:00.620 Samuel Roberts: I think it was… the just exploratory stuff is over then, so…
61 00:04:00.620 ⇒ 00:04:01.570 Mustafa Raja: Okay, okay.
62 00:04:01.570 ⇒ 00:04:04.870 Samuel Roberts: If they want to… we put together a proposal for more work.
63 00:04:05.000 ⇒ 00:04:07.480 Samuel Roberts: That would include more of that stuff, so…
64 00:04:07.480 ⇒ 00:04:14.550 Mustafa Raja: I guess you missed, default, so I’ll give you an update, so… Yeah.
65 00:04:14.720 ⇒ 00:04:31.379 Mustafa Raja: We did enrichments, that were decided to be delivered on Monday, which was delivered on Monday, and then, Caitlin wanted to see if we can enrich… sorry, if we can visualize all of this data, so what I’m going to do is I’m going to export the data
66 00:04:31.380 ⇒ 00:04:34.760 Mustafa Raja: From clay, join it in Mother Duck.
67 00:04:35.070 ⇒ 00:04:42.609 Mustafa Raja: I haven’t done it before, so, I’ll have to see how do we join things and all in databases or something.
68 00:04:42.770 ⇒ 00:04:46.669 Mustafa Raja: And after that, the data should be available in…
69 00:04:46.930 ⇒ 00:04:50.859 Mustafa Raja: Mother Dark, and then we need to visualize.
70 00:04:51.220 ⇒ 00:04:52.110 Mustafa Raja: the data.
71 00:04:52.770 ⇒ 00:04:54.479 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, this is the update.
72 00:04:55.890 ⇒ 00:04:58.129 Samuel Roberts: Okay. Yeah, I don’t know much about…
73 00:04:58.410 ⇒ 00:05:02.159 Samuel Roberts: Mother Duck, looks like it’s just DuckDB under the hood.
74 00:05:02.160 ⇒ 00:05:03.660 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
75 00:05:03.660 ⇒ 00:05:07.130 Samuel Roberts: No, hopefully it should just be SQL… Ish.
76 00:05:07.130 ⇒ 00:05:07.539 Mustafa Raja: I don’t know.
77 00:05:07.540 ⇒ 00:05:11.560 Samuel Roberts: Let me know if I can help out and look anything up, or if you need to talk.
78 00:05:11.560 ⇒ 00:05:18.270 Mustafa Raja: I’m thinking of… I’m thinking of adding new tables just, and then I can match it with domains only.
79 00:05:19.500 ⇒ 00:05:20.579 Samuel Roberts: Mmm, okay.
80 00:05:20.680 ⇒ 00:05:25.720 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I don’t know who owns… so is there anything in… there’s default stuff in Mother Duck right now?
81 00:05:26.650 ⇒ 00:05:44.349 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, there’s already. The dashboard that I built was based on that, and we recently enriched the data that is in dashboard, right? And so now it has some new columns that the enrichment gave us.
82 00:05:44.630 ⇒ 00:05:48.499 Mustafa Raja: And now we want to update the data in Mother Duck.
83 00:05:49.130 ⇒ 00:05:51.270 Samuel Roberts: Okay. So you feel good adding those tables and stuff?
84 00:05:51.270 ⇒ 00:05:51.709 Mustafa Raja: I’ve been doing.
85 00:05:51.710 ⇒ 00:05:53.870 Samuel Roberts: I need to get anyone to sign off on it.
86 00:05:53.870 ⇒ 00:05:55.930 Mustafa Raja: I think I can handle that.
87 00:05:56.310 ⇒ 00:05:59.570 Samuel Roberts: Okay, sounds good. Let me know if there’s any issues.
88 00:05:59.570 ⇒ 00:06:03.280 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, data work is very interesting. I like it.
89 00:06:04.090 ⇒ 00:06:07.129 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, we were just talking about,
90 00:06:07.270 ⇒ 00:06:10.049 Samuel Roberts: How to make us, like, more cross-functional.
91 00:06:10.660 ⇒ 00:06:11.720 Samuel Roberts: Oh.
92 00:06:12.020 ⇒ 00:06:13.510 Samuel Roberts: So, like, the idea is that, like.
93 00:06:14.200 ⇒ 00:06:18.449 Samuel Roberts: an engineer at Brainforge will be, you know, doing engineering work.
94 00:06:18.510 ⇒ 00:06:37.019 Samuel Roberts: whether that’s data or AI, or a bit of both, and can kind of flip and flop, and then also being, like, very client communication forward, you know? So, like, it’s not just a… the idea is that this role can be a little more, maybe, like, oh, yeah, let’s try some data stuff, let’s try some, you know, rather than be a little siloed,
95 00:06:38.410 ⇒ 00:06:43.950 Samuel Roberts: I don’t know how we’re gonna manage that, because there’s a lot to do, so maybe that doesn’t happen immediately, but,
96 00:06:44.590 ⇒ 00:06:48.080 Samuel Roberts: If you’re interested in some more of it, like, definitely maybe,
97 00:06:48.370 ⇒ 00:06:53.390 Samuel Roberts: we can make something happen. I don’t know exactly how or when, just based on client work, but…
98 00:06:55.300 ⇒ 00:06:55.800 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I agree.
99 00:06:55.800 ⇒ 00:06:59.630 Samuel Roberts: Also, just touching it a little bit is fun, too. I know, I don’t necessarily… yeah, I get it.
100 00:07:00.480 ⇒ 00:07:09.889 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess what I’m doing is pretty basic, too. That might be a reason that I’m liking it.
101 00:07:10.560 ⇒ 00:07:28.379 Mustafa Raja: So, yeah, what I have done is only built dashboards, and last night I did some investigation in raw data. Something wasn’t coming up, and our raw data was correct, which is that the data that came in had some missing dates in it.
102 00:07:29.540 ⇒ 00:07:29.900 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
103 00:07:30.370 ⇒ 00:07:36.879 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so this… this sort of thing that I’ve done for data… data work?
104 00:07:37.470 ⇒ 00:07:40.089 Mustafa Raja: I think it’s pretty basic, that’s…
105 00:07:40.090 ⇒ 00:07:40.990 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, yeah, but still.
106 00:07:40.990 ⇒ 00:07:42.410 Mustafa Raja: reason I’m loving it.
107 00:07:42.640 ⇒ 00:07:46.180 Samuel Roberts: Were you doing some, SQL and stuff for that? Like, actually writing?
108 00:07:46.430 ⇒ 00:07:57.010 Mustafa Raja: Oh, no, no, no, I don’t like writing SQL. Yeah, for most of the things, I had to write SQL, but ChatGPT did it for me.
109 00:07:57.010 ⇒ 00:07:58.839 Samuel Roberts: That’s exactly what I was gonna say, like, I’m…
110 00:07:58.840 ⇒ 00:07:59.280 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
111 00:07:59.280 ⇒ 00:08:01.790 Samuel Roberts: I know just enough sequel to be dangerous, but not enough to, like.
112 00:08:01.790 ⇒ 00:08:02.820 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
113 00:08:02.820 ⇒ 00:08:03.770 Samuel Roberts: He knows it very well.
114 00:08:04.010 ⇒ 00:08:11.299 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, same. I did, I did very basic, SQL in my… Computer science degree.
115 00:08:11.610 ⇒ 00:08:12.140 Samuel Roberts: Okay.
116 00:08:12.140 ⇒ 00:08:17.079 Mustafa Raja: After that, I know. After that, the complex joins and all, yeah, no…
117 00:08:17.080 ⇒ 00:08:21.230 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, that’s one of those things, like, I know what can be done, I just don’t know how to do it, you know?
118 00:08:21.230 ⇒ 00:08:22.500 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I…
119 00:08:22.500 ⇒ 00:08:27.610 Samuel Roberts: And the AI is very helpful in that case. I will say, yeah, Casey and I were just working on something,
120 00:08:28.630 ⇒ 00:08:30.829 Samuel Roberts: Actually, for ABC, it was the update form.
121 00:08:31.250 ⇒ 00:08:34.469 Mustafa Raja: And I was like, we were trying to do something…
122 00:08:34.470 ⇒ 00:08:39.369 Samuel Roberts: Where we have to update, like, several tables, because of the way the database is structured.
123 00:08:39.740 ⇒ 00:08:41.860 Samuel Roberts: And so…
124 00:08:42.030 ⇒ 00:08:49.870 Samuel Roberts: I was just like, let’s just do it all in one big SQL command, because it should handle it. And we figured it out, I think he got it with ChatGPT’s help, and… great.
125 00:08:51.740 ⇒ 00:08:57.269 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, obviously, like, ingesting all this data and stuff is definitely beyond me, too, but working with it is fun.
126 00:08:58.060 ⇒ 00:08:59.000 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah.
127 00:08:59.730 ⇒ 00:09:04.429 Mustafa Raja: Alright. I guess, I guess I’ll let you know how it went.
128 00:09:04.950 ⇒ 00:09:05.640 Samuel Roberts: Yes.
129 00:09:05.640 ⇒ 00:09:07.669 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, keep me updated.
130 00:09:07.670 ⇒ 00:09:14.220 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, totally, totally. Do keep me updated. Also, actually, while I have you, I think I did schedule those,
131 00:09:15.480 ⇒ 00:09:16.930 Samuel Roberts: Like, our monthly…
132 00:09:16.930 ⇒ 00:09:17.359 Mustafa Raja: You got it.
133 00:09:17.360 ⇒ 00:09:17.960 Samuel Roberts: views.
134 00:09:17.960 ⇒ 00:09:18.470 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
135 00:09:18.470 ⇒ 00:09:24.970 Samuel Roberts: So, I mean, I owe you a little bit of, like, like a pre-work thing to fill out, like, your kind of feedback.
136 00:09:24.970 ⇒ 00:09:25.379 Mustafa Raja: Oh.
137 00:09:25.380 ⇒ 00:09:32.289 Samuel Roberts: That, like, you’ll both come prepared to it. So, we’ll try to send you that tonight, at least, so that tomorrow you’ll get a chance.
138 00:09:32.630 ⇒ 00:09:34.609 Mustafa Raja: Is it this Friday or something?
139 00:09:34.970 ⇒ 00:09:38.169 Samuel Roberts: I think it’s Thursday I put it on the calendar, but I can bump it to Friday if you’d like.
140 00:09:38.170 ⇒ 00:09:40.749 Mustafa Raja: No, no, no, whatever works for me.
141 00:09:41.110 ⇒ 00:09:53.270 Samuel Roberts: Okay. Yeah, I just… I was trying to get them by the end of September, and then I got a little busy, and then Casey was out at the beginning of the week, so I figured I’ll just put you both on Thursday, but if that doesn’t work… oh, actually, this Friday is not good.
142 00:09:53.560 ⇒ 00:09:56.200 Samuel Roberts: Oh my goodness, I didn’t think about this at all, actually.
143 00:09:58.180 ⇒ 00:10:00.829 Samuel Roberts: I forgot, I’m out Friday.
144 00:10:02.930 ⇒ 00:10:07.419 Samuel Roberts: Or at least away. Okay, I may have to reschedule. I’m so sorry, I just realized it.
145 00:10:07.630 ⇒ 00:10:11.400 Samuel Roberts: Is it what happens when I only look at my work calendar and not my personal calendar, too?
146 00:10:12.820 ⇒ 00:10:15.010 Mustafa Raja: Okay, okay, okay.
147 00:10:15.010 ⇒ 00:10:20.770 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I’ll let you know, but I’ll send you that stuff so you can prepare either way, because we’ll do it either Thursday or probably early next week then.
148 00:10:21.230 ⇒ 00:10:21.830 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
149 00:10:22.630 ⇒ 00:10:23.519 Samuel Roberts: Alright, thanks so much.
150 00:10:24.000 ⇒ 00:10:25.699 Mustafa Raja: Thank you, have a good day.
151 00:10:26.000 ⇒ 00:10:26.590 Samuel Roberts: You too.
152 00:10:26.590 ⇒ 00:10:27.210 Mustafa Raja: Bye.