I dislike hackathons in general, it's just not how I work. That the topic of this mandatory one at DAYJOB is chasing a bubble and promoting a product is just piss icing on the turdcake.
@nivrig My first thought was 'Can I hackathon up a mid-level manager?' Then figured it would just need to ask for coffee, send emails asking for updates on randomly-named projects, and throw in an occasional 'New Requirements' email with some gibberish. Could do it all with a bash script.
(This is why people don't come to me for career advice.)
@nivrig one thing I regret never putting in place at my company was something I read about 3M. They’d give people time to work on whatever they wanted.
In game space I think that would be amazing and I really should have done it.
Find something you want to do. Rally people from the rest of the company if the project requires it. See what happens.
Double Fine has something like that but I would do it with less pressure than they do. For it not to become another source of stress but creativity.
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