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# Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 30
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/modest-operations-newsletter-volume-30/
- Published: 2019-07-03T17:55:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T22:24:48.000Z
- Description: Modest Operations email newsletter Volume 30 (July 03, 2019).
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: medium, the new yorker, ian parker, josh temple, modest operations, newsletter, #import-mailchimp-2026-09-13

**This Week's Links** *A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.*\* "He craved products that didn’t force adjustments of behavior, that gave what Powell Jobs called a 'feeling of gratitude that someone else actually thought this through in a way that makes your life easier.'" - [Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple (Ian Parker for *The New Yorker*)](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "I’m here to convince you that Google Sheets, with the proper guardrails in place, is an excellent way for colleagues outside of an analytics team to input tabular data for downstream use, even in automated transformations!" - [The ultimate guide to Google Sheets as a reliable data source (Josh Temple for *Medium*)](https://towardsdatascience.com/google-sheet-data-warehouse-c22bb2cce4b0?ref=drewshannon.net)