Tom Mitchell
@imtommitchell.bsky.social
I help ambitious professionals develop high paying data skills | Cloud Data Engineer & Analytics Consultant (8+ YOE) | Ex-Data @ Revolut
Azure data skills are in demand. High-paying demand.
And Microsoft gives you everything you need to learn it. For £0.
Here's how to start:
And Microsoft gives you everything you need to learn it. For £0.
Here's how to start:
August 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Azure data skills are in demand. High-paying demand.
And Microsoft gives you everything you need to learn it. For £0.
Here's how to start:
And Microsoft gives you everything you need to learn it. For £0.
Here's how to start:
Nothing will ever beat the feeling of typing:
"Select * FROM table"
For the first time.
When I saw the output I felt cool AF.
Little did I know my whole career would be built on that one line.
If you haven't learned SQL, do yourself a favour and start today.
"Select * FROM table"
For the first time.
When I saw the output I felt cool AF.
Little did I know my whole career would be built on that one line.
If you haven't learned SQL, do yourself a favour and start today.
August 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Nothing will ever beat the feeling of typing:
"Select * FROM table"
For the first time.
When I saw the output I felt cool AF.
Little did I know my whole career would be built on that one line.
If you haven't learned SQL, do yourself a favour and start today.
"Select * FROM table"
For the first time.
When I saw the output I felt cool AF.
Little did I know my whole career would be built on that one line.
If you haven't learned SQL, do yourself a favour and start today.
If you understand SQL and Python, the number of doors that will open for you is huge.
The best bit?
We have the best free education system humanity has ever seen:
YouTube.
There has never been a better time to start.
The best bit?
We have the best free education system humanity has ever seen:
YouTube.
There has never been a better time to start.
August 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you understand SQL and Python, the number of doors that will open for you is huge.
The best bit?
We have the best free education system humanity has ever seen:
YouTube.
There has never been a better time to start.
The best bit?
We have the best free education system humanity has ever seen:
YouTube.
There has never been a better time to start.
The difference between a junior and senior developer?
Query performance.
Here are 5 steps that will make your SQL queries actually perform:
Query performance.
Here are 5 steps that will make your SQL queries actually perform:
August 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The difference between a junior and senior developer?
Query performance.
Here are 5 steps that will make your SQL queries actually perform:
Query performance.
Here are 5 steps that will make your SQL queries actually perform:
The biggest challenge I've faced growing a business isn't building the product or service.
It's getting potential customers to see how it relates to their world.
People won't invest time understanding your business.
You must invest time understanding their problems.
It's getting potential customers to see how it relates to their world.
People won't invest time understanding your business.
You must invest time understanding their problems.
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The biggest challenge I've faced growing a business isn't building the product or service.
It's getting potential customers to see how it relates to their world.
People won't invest time understanding your business.
You must invest time understanding their problems.
It's getting potential customers to see how it relates to their world.
People won't invest time understanding your business.
You must invest time understanding their problems.
Stop asking:
"What will they think?"
Start asking:
"What will I learn?"
"How will this improve me?"
"Am I avoiding discomfort?"
"Will this matter in one year?"
Your success depends on better questions.
"What will they think?"
Start asking:
"What will I learn?"
"How will this improve me?"
"Am I avoiding discomfort?"
"Will this matter in one year?"
Your success depends on better questions.
August 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Stop asking:
"What will they think?"
Start asking:
"What will I learn?"
"How will this improve me?"
"Am I avoiding discomfort?"
"Will this matter in one year?"
Your success depends on better questions.
"What will they think?"
Start asking:
"What will I learn?"
"How will this improve me?"
"Am I avoiding discomfort?"
"Will this matter in one year?"
Your success depends on better questions.
The entrepreneurs who succeed aren't the fearless ones.
They're the ones who take action despite fear.
They're the ones who take action despite fear.
August 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The entrepreneurs who succeed aren't the fearless ones.
They're the ones who take action despite fear.
They're the ones who take action despite fear.
What persistence looks like in practice:
Year 1: You need luck to get noticed.
Year 2: You need less luck because you have skills.
Year 3: You need even less luck because you have a network.
Year 4: You don't need luck because you ARE the opportunity.
Year 1: You need luck to get noticed.
Year 2: You need less luck because you have skills.
Year 3: You need even less luck because you have a network.
Year 4: You don't need luck because you ARE the opportunity.
August 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What persistence looks like in practice:
Year 1: You need luck to get noticed.
Year 2: You need less luck because you have skills.
Year 3: You need even less luck because you have a network.
Year 4: You don't need luck because you ARE the opportunity.
Year 1: You need luck to get noticed.
Year 2: You need less luck because you have skills.
Year 3: You need even less luck because you have a network.
Year 4: You don't need luck because you ARE the opportunity.
Stop talking to customers about what you do.
Start talking about how you improve their life.
Start talking about how you improve their life.
August 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Stop talking to customers about what you do.
Start talking about how you improve their life.
Start talking about how you improve their life.
I'm trialing a new framework to improve my business:
"For Whom"
Before making any decisions, I ask:
"Am I doing this..."
1. For others to see and approve?
2. For myself and my customers?
So far, I've said no more than I've said yes.
A good thing (I think).
"For Whom"
Before making any decisions, I ask:
"Am I doing this..."
1. For others to see and approve?
2. For myself and my customers?
So far, I've said no more than I've said yes.
A good thing (I think).
July 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm trialing a new framework to improve my business:
"For Whom"
Before making any decisions, I ask:
"Am I doing this..."
1. For others to see and approve?
2. For myself and my customers?
So far, I've said no more than I've said yes.
A good thing (I think).
"For Whom"
Before making any decisions, I ask:
"Am I doing this..."
1. For others to see and approve?
2. For myself and my customers?
So far, I've said no more than I've said yes.
A good thing (I think).
A question I'm trying to ask myself more often:
If I achieve everything I'm currently working toward, will my life look dramatically different in 5 years?
If I achieve everything I'm currently working toward, will my life look dramatically different in 5 years?
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A question I'm trying to ask myself more often:
If I achieve everything I'm currently working toward, will my life look dramatically different in 5 years?
If I achieve everything I'm currently working toward, will my life look dramatically different in 5 years?
Starting a new support group:
Domain buyers anonymous
For people who can't stop buying domains they'll never use.
Who needs an invite?
Domain buyers anonymous
For people who can't stop buying domains they'll never use.
Who needs an invite?
July 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Starting a new support group:
Domain buyers anonymous
For people who can't stop buying domains they'll never use.
Who needs an invite?
Domain buyers anonymous
For people who can't stop buying domains they'll never use.
Who needs an invite?
Good morning to everyone who shows up even when its tough
July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Good morning to everyone who shows up even when its tough
Me: experienced data engineer with 9+ years experience
Also me: Asks ChatGPT how to write a basic CREATE TABLE for users
Also me: Asks ChatGPT how to write a basic CREATE TABLE for users
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Me: experienced data engineer with 9+ years experience
Also me: Asks ChatGPT how to write a basic CREATE TABLE for users
Also me: Asks ChatGPT how to write a basic CREATE TABLE for users
Every business needs a website.
The problem?
Not everyone know's how to code.
Here are 6 no-code tools that'll get you online fast:
The problem?
Not everyone know's how to code.
Here are 6 no-code tools that'll get you online fast:
July 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Every business needs a website.
The problem?
Not everyone know's how to code.
Here are 6 no-code tools that'll get you online fast:
The problem?
Not everyone know's how to code.
Here are 6 no-code tools that'll get you online fast:
Its funny how when you commit to getting 1% better every day, whether thats:
- Personal development
- Product
- Service
The pressure you feel disappears.
Rather than a facing a big mountain, you just face a single step.
Give it a try if you're feeling down.
- Personal development
- Product
- Service
The pressure you feel disappears.
Rather than a facing a big mountain, you just face a single step.
Give it a try if you're feeling down.
July 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Its funny how when you commit to getting 1% better every day, whether thats:
- Personal development
- Product
- Service
The pressure you feel disappears.
Rather than a facing a big mountain, you just face a single step.
Give it a try if you're feeling down.
- Personal development
- Product
- Service
The pressure you feel disappears.
Rather than a facing a big mountain, you just face a single step.
Give it a try if you're feeling down.
Good morning to everyone playing the long game.
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Good morning to everyone playing the long game.
Using data to grow your business 101:
- Define the experiment
- Execute it
- Report on it
- Decide the next steps
It won't be one big win that take you to the next level.
Its a combination of lots of small wins over timw
- Define the experiment
- Execute it
- Report on it
- Decide the next steps
It won't be one big win that take you to the next level.
Its a combination of lots of small wins over timw
July 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Using data to grow your business 101:
- Define the experiment
- Execute it
- Report on it
- Decide the next steps
It won't be one big win that take you to the next level.
Its a combination of lots of small wins over timw
- Define the experiment
- Execute it
- Report on it
- Decide the next steps
It won't be one big win that take you to the next level.
Its a combination of lots of small wins over timw
Most people quit after the first year.
They blame bad luck.
The truth?
Luck becomes irrelevant when you outlast everyone else.
So stop waiting for your lucky break.
Start building your inevitable one.
They blame bad luck.
The truth?
Luck becomes irrelevant when you outlast everyone else.
So stop waiting for your lucky break.
Start building your inevitable one.
July 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Most people quit after the first year.
They blame bad luck.
The truth?
Luck becomes irrelevant when you outlast everyone else.
So stop waiting for your lucky break.
Start building your inevitable one.
They blame bad luck.
The truth?
Luck becomes irrelevant when you outlast everyone else.
So stop waiting for your lucky break.
Start building your inevitable one.
Just left a networking event where 27 people told me what they do.
Only 2 told me how they transform their customers' lives.
Guess which ones I remember?
Only 2 told me how they transform their customers' lives.
Guess which ones I remember?
July 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just left a networking event where 27 people told me what they do.
Only 2 told me how they transform their customers' lives.
Guess which ones I remember?
Only 2 told me how they transform their customers' lives.
Guess which ones I remember?
The effort to achieve something small versus something life-changing often isn't that different.
The real cost is opportunity.
The real cost is opportunity.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The effort to achieve something small versus something life-changing often isn't that different.
The real cost is opportunity.
The real cost is opportunity.
Tiredness comes in different forms:
Regular job: Tired from back to back meetings, commuting, and making money for your boss.
Business owner: Tired from building something that could change your life.
Same outcome. Completely different feelings.
Regular job: Tired from back to back meetings, commuting, and making money for your boss.
Business owner: Tired from building something that could change your life.
Same outcome. Completely different feelings.
July 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Tiredness comes in different forms:
Regular job: Tired from back to back meetings, commuting, and making money for your boss.
Business owner: Tired from building something that could change your life.
Same outcome. Completely different feelings.
Regular job: Tired from back to back meetings, commuting, and making money for your boss.
Business owner: Tired from building something that could change your life.
Same outcome. Completely different feelings.
Good morning to everyone building themselves brighter future
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Good morning to everyone building themselves brighter future
Spent my 20's working it out.
Spending my 30's doing it.
So I can spend my 40's enjoying it.
Spending my 30's doing it.
So I can spend my 40's enjoying it.
July 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Spent my 20's working it out.
Spending my 30's doing it.
So I can spend my 40's enjoying it.
Spending my 30's doing it.
So I can spend my 40's enjoying it.
Over-thinking saps more energy than taking action.
July 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Over-thinking saps more energy than taking action.