Love the manifesto. Great list of things. I particularly like #1. It’s been a major focus of mine to focus my attention on things within my control. And in the current environment that’s definitely not easy.

Trevor’s friend here: https://store.wearewired.in

I took his advice haha. I have 300 fully packaged signs to pick up this week. Excited to fix the supply chain issues and start shipping end of the week.

What platforms will you use for your example clients?

I primarily use a Mac, so the command line examples will be from a Mac/Linux perspective, however the AWS CLI is identical for all platforms.

I'll also be doing all the examples from the web UI.

Simple battery powered light that you can use to tell your coworkers to leave you alone when you need to focus.

Lol. I hate this list.

I don't want it to be true, because I want to believe in the best of people.

Unfortunately I think you may be right. It seems like the people that succeed in marketing are the people that agree with this. We all want to be Don Draper, but we probably just need to be (lil) green patch.

I've become pretty cynical, I suppose.

There are a lot of pieces to the prototyping; this post is by Andrew on prototyping the bluetooth with the RFDuino. The hardware they built is a dream to work with.

Feel free to ask questions about our prototyping process. We're excited to share.

I'm not sure. At this point we're actually considering on tying in with existing messaging APIs (Slack, Hipchat, Campfire, Google Hangouts)

We are actually planning on letting users customize their sign text. Also, you can change the color depending on availability.

My hope is that you'd actually have an entire work space with a sign on each desk.

That would be awesome if everyone had one!

That's our hope. I have a prototype on my desk and I love it.

I'd love to hear any ideas you guys have, or any thoughts on what we should talk about.

We're in prototype phase and we have done some overseas testing. We're also going through the process of building it for HomeKit.