Delightful Reveal #14

“I think Glynnis just dragged a bodybag into the room.”

What we did:

• Bought tickets to the Studio Ghibli museum
• Created a how-to for identifying the ethics of potential clients
• Interviewed and analyzed findings for user research; created personas to inform our problem statement workshop; and held a problem statement workshop to guide a new development project over the summer
• Began creating our user story triage to prepare for our findings presentation
• Created a Slack bot to periodically prompt the team with icebreaker questions!
• Interviewed Learn Academy participants from the 2023 Alpha cohort to prepare them for “real world” interviews.
• Coaching businesses as they go through 12 weeks of the Doyenne Triple Threat Venture Training
• Booked travel to RailsConf 2023 in Atlanta
• Made final revisions to the Fuel Maintenance sidecar application 
• Took in feedback from client to finish out steps on the email wizard and began work on refreshing the marketing site
• Mentored 3 students from Madison College on their portfolios before their final portfolio show to help them shape and sharpen their skills at presenting their work.

What we’re reading:

• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (StoryGraph)
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday (StoryGraph)
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen (BOAEditions)
• Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking With Confidence by Claire Saffitz (DessertPerson)
• Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom (StoryGraph)
• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (StoryGraph)
• How to Evaluate a Code Base by Sonjara (Sonjara)
• The Suitcase retro: closing a phase of work by Emily Webber (Emily Webber) 
• Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? by David L. Chandler (MIT News) 

What we’re watching:

• BEEF (Netflix)
• Black Travel Across America (Disney+)
• Tiny Beautiful Things (Hulu)
• Shrinking (AppleTV)
• Succession (HBO)
• Critical Role Campaign 2: The Mighty Men (Critical Role)
• Perry Mason (HBO)
• The Last of Us +1 (but slowly) (HBO) 
• Star Trek: Picard Season 3 (Paramount)
• A Lifelong Mathematical Obsession (YouTube)

What we’re listening to:

• America’s First Food Spy (Sidedoor)
• Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (Spotify)
• Kris Ulrich  - Friends On the Internet (YouTube) 
• Say She She - Reeling [OFFICIAL AUDIO] (YouTube)
• Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories by Craig Heacock MD (Apple Podcast)

What we’re interested in:

• Sketchbook Revival 2023
• Land
• Cute lil bamboo slide-y boxes for watercolor palettes
• Shotgun houses

What we’re struggling with:

• Saving state without persistence (or React)
• Getting back into skateboarding
• Houses
• Race conditions with uniqueness validations
• Broken cat butt problems
• Never getting the chance to visit Star Trek: The Experience when it was still around

What we’re buying:

• Custom frame jobs for artist friend Emma Fick’s work
• Solar Water Fountain
• Waterpik water flosser
• Apple Airtags
• Beni Ourain rugs from Morocco (the body bags)
• Armored hoodie
• New fence paneling to replace the old, rotting ones

What we’re celebrating:

• Getting back to the lathe and finishing a batch of pens
• Getting back into skateboarding
• Getting to work collaboratively on a project with team members from a partner company
• Houses

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