[mooreds]

Yes, I'm all about the experimentation. I feel like often times during work, we don't have time to pop our heads up and look around at tools and processes that might help us do our jobs better or with less toil.

I always tell folks at any hackdays I coordinate: talking about a tool you thought might be used, explored and learned wasn't a fit is just as much a win as a cool demo.

[Jemaclus]

Absolutely. So many times we fall into a rut of using our familiar tools that we don't realize that sometimes there are new innovations that can make our lives easier. Or, at the very least, automations we can put into place to make our lives easier!

At our most recent hackathon, for example, we automated about 80% of project setup. Whereas it used to take 4-6 hours to set up a new project, we got it down to about 30 minutes, and we have a clear line of sight to a 5 minute set up process. It's quite nice!

Going into the hackathon, however, people were like "Ugh, this is too much work to set up a project! Why should we bother?!" rather than thinking "Hey, this is an opportunity to make setting up a project much easier."

So yes, agree completely. Thanks for your insights!