Daily Archives: January 4, 2026

The Zen Story of the Cup of Tea: How Awareness Opens Space

Leave a Reply · 04/01/2026 · 152 of 152 reads (last 12 months vs since 2024)

A Zen master overfills a visitor’s teacup to show that a mind already full has no space to receive. The problem is not knowing too much, but being unable to listen. Emptying the cup is not a single insight but an ongoing practice: noticing when we’ve stopped listening and allowing a small pause to create space. Have a cup of tea. Have another one.

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Migrating Legacy EDW Slowly-Changing Dimensions to Lakehouse Bronze

Leave a Reply · 04/01/2026 · 113 of 113 reads (last 12 months vs since 2024)

From 20-year-old warehouse SCDs to a modern temporal backbone you can trust. This article lays out a practical, regulator-aware playbook for migrating legacy EDW SCD dimensions to a modern SCD2 Bronze layer in a medallion/lakehouse architecture. It covers what you are really migrating (semantics, not just tables), how to treat the EDW as a source system, how to build canonical SCD2 Bronze, how to run both platforms in parallel, and how to prove to auditors and regulators that nothing has been lost or corrupted in the process.

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