Talking With One Another

I’ve been working on something with a couple friends over a couple years now. It feels like a good time to share it with this list, if you'll allow it. We think teams that talk together (like, a lot) not only make more human, beautiful, and valuable things, they experience more human, beautiful, and valuable days.

A tale, yarn, account, report, history, anecdote, fable, or recounting can make for a delightful punctuation inserted between commonplace habits a team occupies. I learned that this can be practiced. There are entire methodologies dedicated to place-setting for these moments that they might occur with regularity and ease.

I will occasionally talk about our working principles in these posts, but won't be making regular sales pitches here. If you think that terms like “Small Batch Sizes”, “Pairing”, and “Acceptance”, among others, mean something, then I invite you to try out https://app.storytime.team.

We’re building it because we think that the current moment is awash with incentives to work in isolation with interactive simulacra. We risk forgetting how to be with the humans we learn with in favor of bots we demand of.

Since everything old is new again, we’re reclaiming user stories in a way that allows the bots to help, but without forfeiting the rich interactions that make the best balanced software teams magical for the people on them.

StoryTime is a love letter to that fluency-building, in technology and in one-another. I hope it is useful for you.

I’ll keep this newsletter focused on those themes. If you want to follow us at StoryTime, we publish monthly updates. Subscribe here.

Until next time...