Quirk up your workplace
summary
Claims that a 100% remote design culture boosts morale by shipping goofy artifacts and tools, with concrete examples and tools: 3D-printed Octocat keycaps, laser-cut lanyard charms, and a Copilot-branded Copilot Magic 8 Ball are made and distributed; teams teach themselves Blender, laser cutting, and soldering to build things; a playable retro Copilot jump game, an ASCII animation app built in a day, and a screen-free audio player actually ship; a “prettify the blue links” web app and Spaces app automate copy audits across millions of repos.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:54GitHub workplace culture
- 2:39Early career pranks
- 4:46Adapting to remote work
- 6:31Building fun at work
- 8:17Remixing Octocat
- 10:03Goofy coworkers
- 11:49Copilot playful innovation
- 14:36Stay fearlessly quirky
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