Today I hung up postcards and posters on the surrounding walls of my desk. That seems like a minor thing. But for me, that’s huge. I remember every single time that I put up pictures in new places I moved to. It’s a ritual. It’s a “Ok I’m gonna conquer that place now and I will call it my home and it will be as much of a home as the other places I called home where I also looked at these pictures, daily.”
The thing is: I’m running out of pictures. I guess I need to buy postcards from the museum shops at the art gallery, and maybe I should buy an indie magazine or two. Yeah, that’s a good idea, now that I think about it.
At the top, you can see some of these pictures….and the rest of my desk! As you can see, it’s really big. I have lots of space; lots of desk space. I have an external monitor (and since yesterday it works really well!), a drawing tablet and post-its; and what else is there to want.
What else happened today? I met with Francis and he explained me Scrum (something that his department uses, but my department doesn’t); I pitched loooots of story ideas to Brian and I created a datavis in c3, d4 and nvd3, which are all javascript libraries built upon d3. Tomorrow I will actually do a datavis in d3. And help Zyma, the intern who will leave on Friday. She’s awesome.
Input? 3
Output? 7
Learnings?
It’s not that hard to write haikus. Also, the other fellows are awesome.
Scrum consists of 2-week-sprints. And you have a backlog. Maybe I should copy that model. Deadlines are awesome.
Questions?
I’m still wondering a lot about what to do with all that content I produced for the blog post. Should I write down an “executive summary” and link to another blog post which then has all the background information? Hm.