“Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: “At some point every day, you have to say, ‘No more work.’” No matter how many tasks remain undone, you have to relax at some point and enjoy the evening.” — John Tierney, NY Times columnist and co-author of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, in an interview with Gretchen Rubin. (via idonethis)
Happy birthday to our intern Anthony, even if the amazing Georgetown cupcakes looked like they came to us via Tilt-A-Whirl.
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Prioritize projects through this simple lens: Each dot represents a potential project or feature. Scoring would work such that;
Green = justification for immediate completion
Yellow = decide based on subjective views
Red = justification to wait
As an organization grows, this allows you to weigh the ideas and complexities of partner requests with that of folks who have longer term (cross quarter) projects currently in motion. Things like engineering hours, PM resources, and design may play a role in the score and color of a dot. Previously running projects have probably the highest impact, but provide justification on a high impact low difficulty project being pushed off a month.
“Fred Luskin, instructor of the Stanford happiness class, said that the simplest definition of happiness is ‘wanting what you have.’ Conversely, the simplest definition of stress is ‘wanting something to be different.’” —
(Source: sfgate.com)
In honor of our upgrade to Rails 1.9.3, Shawn designed these t-shirts, and Kim silkscreened a few of them for the crew. A little team swag, celebrating the hard work put in by Barry, TJ, and Warwick!
“What is the marker of good design? It moves. The story of a successful piece of design begins with the movement of its maker while it is being made, and amplifies by its publishing, moving the work out and around. It then continues in the feeling the work stirs in the audience when they see, use, or contribute to the work, and intensifies as the audience passes it on to others. Design gains value as it moves from hand to hand; context to context; need to need. If all of this movement harmonizes, the work gains a life of its own, and turns into a shared experience that enhances life and inches the world closer to its full potential.” — Frank Chimero on the Shape of Design and the Harmonics of Influence
(Source: brainpickings.org)
Get excited: WalkaboutNYC is less than a month away!
Thanks to our friends at Zendesk for this giant cake. New Harvest/Zendesk integration launching next week.
Our lovely and talented Account Manager Sarah Haas takes a breather in between phone calls with Harvest customers to flash a smile.
On his way back from the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia, our new Kentucky-based team member Ryan decided to stop by Harvest HQ and take over Mr. Shawn Liu’s desk.