Delightful Reveal #36
A weekly update on all things Flagrant
“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.