I've kept a list of moments I'd like to savour and replay in my mind as just awesome. There are some things that can pass you by, that you need to stop for. I've 3 of these so far, and they've all come in the later rather than earlier stages of [D4H] - I always make a note of them when they happen.
They probably don't know I took this :-s but it was an awesome moment.
1. David our lead developer explaining codebase and ethos to our intern at the time, James Eggers. This was the first moment I realised we'd hit 3rd Generation. This was a key moment - David explained the product, the ethos, the concept better than I could as 1st Gen. This has happened lots of times now at this stage, but every-time there's a 2nd Gen / 3rd Gen moment, and it skips you out but does a better job than you could as 1st Gen, I still get a buzz.
Hi Arni! Thanks for showing me this!
2. There I was on a glacier in a Superjeep in Iceland in the middle of nowhere - I mean nowhere. In the vehicle and on the terrain that I'd be most in awe off, totally spellbound..... and then they go and show me they have a D4H notebook from our very limited 30 print run back in 2009 still used as the vehicle logbook sitting on the dashboard. Memories, awesomeness, totally just cool - felt we'd made an impact.
We're going to set the world on fire.
3. Sitting in a Baltimore outdoor bar (Hard Rock Cafe?) in the sun and deciding "We Are Young" by Fun would be played if we got a lease on the lighthouse we're now in as an office. So after visiting the other company Director to co-sign the lease, and heading down the 1km drive to 'our new office' for the first time as the awesome view opened up - I changed radio station. "We Are Young - And We'll Set The World On Fire" came one. Totally awesome moment. We are young - and we're setting the world on fire.
I like this talk by Zach Holman who discusses how different working in a Start-Up is, how finding "The One" is really hard, and how it's great to feel you own the product and make real impact.
I knew I wanted to work in tech. Looking back, that's really all I knew prior to graduating from university and joining the working world.
Loving our new office layout.
It's important I believe to shake everything up every now & again. This week we moved all the desk around, did a spring clean, opened out a new segment of the office to another room. Growth is great.
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