Cy Wise

I have SO many feelings about this! Ha! We're a bunch of ex-game-devs-turned-app-devs so games are super important in our group. We've done a lot of these. There are also 21 of us, so getting us all together can be hard. Alot of times we will play in multiple groups and stream via Discord or Tangle so everyone can participate. Fortnite is still popular with my team, especially when a new...

There's an old meme you can go revive from the dusty meme-vaults that says something like. "Tired of losing at the Bad Screen, can't wait to go home and look at the Good Screen". It was made at the time of co-located work, and making fun of our entire lives being on a computer, but I kinda unironically believe in it? That the separation of Work and Not Work can help in our brave new world of...

Definitely second @ixord in the advice to delegate! If you can, absolutely do it. Even if that means giving someone who doesn't yet have that skillset the opportunity to step up. I also do *aggressive* weekly time-blocking. I have days when I do meetings, and days when I definitely do not. I have a whole day blocked out for research and writing. I block hours for focus time on finance, and...

I'm always so grateful when a customer gives feedback. Granted, our customers are usually startup founders and studio heads and our product helps teams connect-- so I know that if they are putting in the effort to get feedback to me, its because they care deeply about their team. And I respect the heck out of that. A lot of time, the feedback is something that's already on our roadmap. I dig...

I believe remote work to be fundamental to creating a sustainable future. Both in terms of environmental/global impact, but also in terms of fostering local communities. Requiring workers to uproot their life to participate in co-located business does such damage to social networks, groups, families, and local communities. These non-work parts of life make teams more insightful, more rested,...

I tried using productivity apps, but I found managing and triaging the productivity app became another task I had to do! And that fell to the bottom of my priority, because of course I did! 🤣 I keep a journal by my desk, list all my tasks so I can see them all at once, that allows me to figure out priority, and then I can add to it throughout the day as things come up. If I don't get to it...