StickersSeptember 12, 2023by Heidi Waterhouse
New sticker day!
What is the new hotness in stickers this year? Let's look!
HEIDI WATERHOUSEBlog Posts
house metaphorsMarketingJune 28, 2023by Heidi Waterhouse
The containers of yesterday and the content of today
There are almost no logical places to put a 60-inch tv in a craftsman foursquare house. The house is built for light and air and an era where the home entertainment center was a piano and a victrola. Where meals were eaten at a dining table and gas lighting and coal boilers were the order...
Safety codes are a pain in the butt. Here is my reflection on our electrical code.
I wanted toast this morning. To get it, I unpacked 3 boxes and grouped a bunch of other things together, and it took me about 30 minutes. #refactoring We just moved house, after 9 years in one place. And we moved from a late-70s rambler to an Arts & Crafts foursquare. So right now, all...
I love impromptu speaking when I get to do it, and Write the Docs had open signups for lightning talks. I wanted to explain the thing I keep teaching founders and all the awesome people I keep coaching: No one cares. No one cares about the thing you want to tell them about as much...
FreelancingJanuary 16, 2023by Heidi Waterhouse
Consultant Offerings
What could I do for your organization as your consultant? Here's a partial list!
You should contract me to help with your developer experience
burnoutPersonalDecember 27, 2022by Heidi Waterhouse
What are you afraid of?
If you ask me what I’m scared of in life, I’ll tell you things like financial insecurity, poisonous snakes, and losing loved ones. Pretty typical. However, if you look at my behavior, the thing I work hardest to avoid is boredom. Until we had reliable books on our tiny pocket computers, I always had a...
Startup years are a little like dog years – 5 years at a startup is a lot of experience. When I started, I was employee 21, our office elevator was a bit dodgy, and we could all eat lunch together. Now LaunchDarkly is a globally-distributed organization with hundreds of employees. Over the years, I’ve gotten...
More than once yesterday, I ended up explaining value-stream mapping. Wikipedia says: Value-stream mapping, also known as “material- and information-flow mapping”,[1] is a lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the...