Delightful Reveal #36

“I think we’re caught in an infinite honk loop.”

What we did:

• Held a multi-product-team workshop focused on concept modeling, as well as a follow-up meeting. Identified shared questions and next steps.
• Held a research-alignment workshop to agree on the user needs we need to address and the questions we have about how to best meet them. Prioritized and triaged research questions.
• Refactored code
• Shared our preferred product management practices and documentation with another product team
• Invited early adopters to kick the tires — especially from a data perspective
• Booked flights to Madison to meet with our client and align on product vision
• Travel planning and coordinating for our Madison get-together and upcoming Fall travels
• Made a web app to help determine if a domains possible schema are behaving correctly
• Created a variety stickers for Flagrant and started looking into printing options
• Created a spike with two variations for adding expenses from templates for a client product
• Worked on creating gel laptop skin designs
• Completed the course work for my Advanced Figma class through BYOL
• Continued to researched coffee bag prices
• Started thinking about designs for coffee bags
• Created social media graphics for some upcoming events

What we’re reading:

• Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
• Successful iteration requires going beyond agile by Pavel Samsonov
• You Deserve A Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein
• Millionaire Biohacker Says Algorithm Runs His Life: ‘My Mind No Longer Decides’
• Introducing the Louder Than Ten Workers’ Cooperative by Travis Gertz
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
• Let’s Write a Tree-Sitter Major Mode - Mastering Emacs

What we’re watching:

• Theater Camp 
• Ugliest House in America
• The Little Mermaid (2023) +1
• Glow Up S5
• East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (Ken Burns)
• Elemental

What we’re listening to:

• Slow Dancing by V of BTS
• Good & Great by Key
• Paradise by EXO
• Allison Russell - Stay Right Here
• 放逐 (fàng zhú) by Ty., NIAN424
• LONER by Caroline Rose
• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Flaming Lips

What we’re interested in:

• Building a bat house
• The Canadian housing market lol
• The Forbidden City and its history

What we’re struggling with:

• Early morning fasting blood work
• Drain pipe for shower broke and I didn’t realize until after my shower
• Time! Wanting to do all the things…NOW!

What we’re buying:

• New pipes
• Decorative gourds
• Tickets to Portland, hotel room, and concert tickets to see The Rose! 
• Plane tickets to Madison

What we’re celebrating:

• Upcoming vacation +1
• Seeing coworkers in person next week +2 Some, for the first time!
• It feels like fall
• Spain’s soccer chief Luis Rubiales quits (finally)
• Going to Strangeloop

If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.