Talking Businessly

We talk about how it will work to have another PM around, the paradox of project scoping, good interview questions, and the power of learning from retros. On a less businessly note, we also talk Survivor, Pecking Order, gas leaks, soothing YouTube videos [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8o6gRs-IA&t=525s], cable management, and trying to feed our notes into ChatGPT.

We do a little vision casting for what a great year would look like. We have some disagreements about sales, plan to remove ourselves as individual contributors from many clients, and to get better at scheduling / planning.

Daniel is moving, and we have some business logistics to figure out. We want to hire a junior PM. We do a roundup of our OKR results. We also talk game of the year, John is about to release a digital game, and get into the weeds testing a board game.

John saw Hamilton. Daniel is moving. We are finally building the client management app that we've long resisted. We talk through the requirements and speak ill of Harvest.

We watched good [https://letterboxd.com/film/waiting-for-guffman/] movies [https://letterboxd.com/film/anora/] this weekend. We re-learn that good management is mostly about un-blocking people. John's journey into React led him back to Livewire and Alpine. John is speaking at PHP x NYC [https://phpxnyc.com/rsvp]. And finally, we discuss the (probably terrible) idea of buying a small business / product.