Finding Momentum

Many of you have won­dered what it’s like daily indulging in the opu­lence that are the FAQQLY offices. Allow me to take you on a tour.

These are known as cubi­cles. There are many of them, and they all look the same. Don’t let their sim­i­lar­i­ties to prison cells fool you. They are actu­ally hold­ing pens for geeks.

Hsi­u­fan and Vicki, ear­lier in the sum­mer. Note the shoes just chillin’ in the corner.

I, being the senior techie, get my own cubi­cle. Note the paper clut­ter on the desk; it is a sure sign of pro­duc­tiv­ity (and they sure help catch any run­away condi­ments leak­ing from my Sub­way sandwiches).

(Three com­put­ers, four screens and a whole lotta carpal-swivel-neck-syndrome.)

Some white­board scrabble:

Don’t let the appear­ance of ‘fun’ fool you. Dave works us like dogs. We have to, cuz he works pretty hard himself.

It’s pretty hard to get this guy out of his cubi­cle. “Hey, wanna get lunch?” we ask him, and he says, “Sure, in five min­utes.” Then about thirty min­utes later we finally get to pull him away off his impor­tant phone con­fer­ences and what­ever he does as a Founder Person.

But seri­ously, it’s been a ton of fun work­ing here, get­ting tons of good expe­ri­ence, pan­ick­ing like real peo­ple with real respon­si­bil­i­ties do, learn­ing how to run a busi­ness in a con­stantly chang­ing mar­ket (the solu­tion? work smarter, not harder. and don’t sleep). And we do keep kid­ding Dave about how he dri­ves us like slaves, but I love the guy. His heart is in the right place, for sure.

The tech team says “Hi”.

(For more pic­tures, visit my FAQQLY Farm photoset)