Delightful Reveal #55
A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant
“Imagine being bullied via pas de bourrée.”
What we did:
- Met Flagrant people in the wild at Summit! Also met some llamas and alpacas as we visited Clover Brooke Farms and made fiber art loofahs.
- Updated sales assets and pricing sheets to help sell and detail a new text messaging platform for a client
- Delivered a new Findings and Recommendations Report for a potential client
- Assisting on the reworking and revamping of the Flagrant website to reflect new work, methods and offerings
- Drove 30+hrs to the Catskill Mountains and back to Wisconsin for #worksummit
- Worked on the Major Donor Program Guide for Ruby Central
- Adapted a Product Management Maturity Model to help convey and benchmark where organizations are at so they know how to improve
- Getting ready for our first Madison+ Ruby pre-show event in NYC, and we’ve got more events in the works!
What we’re reading:
- Loveless by Alice Oseman
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
- Honor by Thrity Umrigar
- The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
- Upstream by Mary Oliver
- The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois
- The Victorian Internet
- Delicious in Dungeon
What we’re watching:
- Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- PWHL championship
- Better Call Saul
- Counterpart
- Make Some Noise
- L’Agence S4
- The Three Body Problem
- Anne of Green Gables
- Taskmaster
- Dumb Money
- Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga
- The Great British Sewing Bee
- Danny Gregory doing a detailed walkthrough of artists sketchbooks: Saul Steinberg & Chris Ware
- Abbott Elementary S3
- Hastily made Cleveland Tourism video
- Relaxing Silent Solo Camp With my Dog by Chasing Adventures
What we’re listening to:
- James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes (audiobook narrated by author)
- The Hare with the Amber Eyes
- The Best of the Lemonheads (The Atlantic Years)
- Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color album
- Work by Ateez
- Wildflower by Billie Eilish
- Boys Will Be Girls by We Are The Union
- Made a women only playlist for Amanda (Parental Advisory)!
- Made a 90’s hip hop/rn’b playlist for road trip (Parental Advisory)!
- Anderson .Paak - Lite Weight (feat. The Free Nationals United Fellowship Choir)
- Flume feat. Toro y Moi - The Difference (Official Music Video)
What we’re interested in:
- Super bikes weekend at Road America
- Candy-colored electronics
- Painting amateur portraits of former political leaders in gouache
- Pineapple Express - an atmospheric river
What we’re struggling with:
- Chaotic week
- Packing and organizing
- Sleep +2
- A five gallon batch of glaze I put an incorrect ingredient in
- Pollen
- A deer that hit my car in Ohio on our return from the summit 🙁
- Packing up a household & cat for a month in the mountains near Lake Tahoe
- The fact that The Great British Sewing Bee isn’t sewing outfits for a giant bee, nor is it a giant bee using its stinger as a needle to sew with
- Possible covid in the house
- A friend’s cancer diagnosis (waiting to find out more)
What we’re buying:
- Home gym workout bench
- Plane tickets to Taiwan/Japan
- Paper bugs
- Earring components for making more ceramic earrings
- A license renewal for CleanShot, a screen capturing tool
- So much stuff at Chicory Naturalist, an amazing shop focused on fungi, plants, and insects in Kingston, NY
What we’re celebrating:
- Kelly recommended a financial advisor that I am starting to work with
- Pickled vegetables are ready to eat
- Having the daily meditation habit back
- Finished “Intro to Motion Design” course
- New season of Pachinko coming out in August (I recommend reading the book first!)
- Flowers!
- A childhood friend moving to town
- Julia Evans’ new zine about Git: How Git Works
- New hummingbird nest in the yard; third nest this year!
- Finding the perfect ratio of chia seeds and milk for chia pudding
- Reptiland in Pennsylvania
- Jim and Jen were each independently selected to give talks at DevFest WI.
If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.