Preview
What it is.
Christopher S. Penn has written Almost Timely weekly for years, on AI, data science, and analytics for marketers.
Each issue takes one problem and works it through: connecting an agent to a data source, doing feature engineering with AI, demonstrating AI skills in a job hunt. The prompts and the reasoning are both shown.
It's free, the archive is open, and he surveys readers to set the agenda.
What you get.
- A weekly deep dive on one AI marketing or analytics problem
- Prompts and the reasoning behind them, so you can adapt instead of copy
- Data science technique explained for people who aren't data scientists
- Reader-requested topics, which keeps it close to live problems
- Free access with a long open archive
Editions we'd start with.
How to Connect an AI Agent to a Data Source ↗
A reader request, worked end to end. The clearest sample of what he does.
How To Do Feature Engineering with AI ↗
Data science made usable for a marketer. Read it before your next analysis.
The Biggest Problem with AI Today ↗
His argument about where AI adoption keeps failing, and it isn't the models.
How to Demonstrate Your AI Chops in Job Hunting ↗
July 2026, and the practical one to forward to anyone job hunting.
Almost Timely Reader Survey Summer 2026 ↗
How he sets the agenda, which tells you what the next few months will cover.