You don’t happen to remember the name of an Amiga game where you navigated a little robot around via CCTV while avoiding security guards, in order to break into a safe?
My two additions would be starting weekly one-on-ones or if you are already doing them, using them to roll out changes individually with each contributor
This allows you to individualise your approach but will also help you get to know your team better.
No one is so busy they can’t spend 30mins a week having a chat.
The manager-tools.com has good resources to help with rollout
Secondly, figure out everything you want to change and then pick three. Dont change a single extra thing until those things are done.
Beat me to it for some NZ perspective, but while we’re here, I was introduced to Jean-Michel Jarre at one of the first Laser Tag places in NZ in the late 80s.
I can’t remember what it was called, but it was next to Leisure land/Footrot Flats theme park in Te Atatu. Laserforce maybe?
It was multi-level, filled with fog and Star Trek style doors that opened when you shot them, and Jean-Michel Jarre played as a constant soundtrack. It was truely magical for a space-and-sci-fi obsessed preteen.
My friends and I only went a couple of times before it turned into paintball, which wasn’t as much fun for 11yr olds!
Subsequently Rendez-vous was one of the first records I ever bought and played over and over again on weekend mornings when my parents were still in bed.
Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress.
Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around with CSS making it look nice, and Wordpress handles that. Many of the other options felt like I was forever tweaking things or upgrading a dependency or something - very much mike the old days of Linux where making the modem work was an achievement.
If I couldn’t use Wordpress I’d probably go with Jekyll or Ghost.
Interesting to hear this exists. I’ve got a lot of knowledge about job seeking (through years of coaching and recruitment) that I want to share but wasn’t sure how much interest there would be.
Its a little off-topic, but my dad passed away last year and left behind a collection of about 40 slide rules.
Aside from his personal slide rule from university and his first job (working at ICL in Manchester designing multiplier boards for mainframes) I don't really want the rest of the collection.
My mum died in January and my Dad died a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t do much for Christmas as a family but I keep thinking of the interesting things to tell my Dad about that he’s not around to tell.
He’d almost certainly be watching the James Webb Telescope launch
I really enjoyed visiting the United Nations building in New York. The tour was interesting and if they weren't in session they too you into the various meeting rooms.
It was good fun and interesting, so if you have the time and interest I’d go for it.