Jul 06 2007
“I Wish Every Day Was a Hack Day”
My job has been boooring lately. M-o-o-n, that spells boring. It’s my fault really because I don’t deal very well with “day to day” things, and I thrive when I can use my intellect (duh!) and let the creative juices flow. I wager to say more and more people find themselves in this situation, because so many business jobs today involve getting to work, turning on laptop, reading and answering emails for an hour, getting on a conference call, more emails and more meetings, maybe lunch break (if we’re lucky) and repeat.
If your company is involved with technology, you’ll have “releases” every quarter or so which is how often something exciting happens, 4 times a year.
There are companies that are very good about breaking monotony, and “hack days” are a new tool employed. It challenges employees to break the mold, invent something new to profit the company and keep employees from getting bored. Yahoo went as far as having open hack days, such as the June 2007, Hack Days London.
Meebo published on their blog today about some Hack Day ideas they’ve employed.
And the winner of “Funniest Hack” and Hack Days London, and my favorite, Web 0.0.
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