Behind the Scenes: #Headsdown

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When you work long enough with some people you start to develop cultural habits or signs that help facilitate productivity and team work. These things aren’t written down anywhere and they are hard to identify at times but they exist and they are there sometimes for the good and sometimes they can be very detrimental.

But when they help enhance productivity, creativity, and team work, then you have a winner.

One obvious and explicit thing that happens with our team is what we call the #headsdown mode – we may even tell each other in our back-channel that we are going “heads down” on some work and do not want to be disturbed.

When we’re physically in the same location we do this without having to say anything – we’ll just put our headphones in and it’s a physical and explicit indication that we’re “in the zone” and that you may die if you interrupt that person.

… not really, but it is a definite “Do Not Disturb” sign that we all respect, because who likes to be interrupted when we’re doing our work, right?

Just wanted to share that as a quick Behind the Scenes look at some of the stuff that we’re doing to help create community and, of course, great content here for you guys.

Hope you have a great Friday and a restful weekend! Ciao!