Kirby Best

“There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.”

Donella Meadows

About Me:

I’ve been a musician, a project manager, and now I spend my days turning messy data into stories about what people want and need. I like building things that last—dashboards, processes, and small systems that make a big difference.

I focus on consumer insights and helping teams make smarter, faster decisions grounded in evidence and curiosity.

Now:

Currently Reading: You Can Just Do Things – Cate Hall

How would someone much, much better than me approach this?”

Writing short essays: one on Blue Jays leadership, one on the LLM productivity window. The connection is systems thinking. Writing it down is the fastest way to find out what I actually think. I want to do more of this. 

Working Knowledge: Real understanding means being able to manipulate a concept, not just recite it. I’ve been testing this against logistic regression: can I explain to a stakeholder, in one clean pass, why log-odds works and raw probability doesn’t?