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Coffee with Janice
Hey! Sorry I'm a couple minutes late, the line was out the door. The coffee here is way better than the place near my apartment though, so worth it. How's your week been?
No worries, I just got here. Honestly week's been a lot. We had the all-hands on Tuesday and our director announced she's leaving end of the month, so the whole team is kind of in limbo.
Oh wow. Was that out of nowhere or had you seen it coming?
Kind of both? She'd been hinting she wanted to do something more product-y for a while, but no one expected her to actually pull the trigger. She's going to a Series B in the climate space.
That's a big jump. Do you know who's covering in the meantime?
Mark from the platform side is acting director until they backfill. I actually like Mark, but he's super hands-off, so I'm worried our roadmap review is going to slip. We were supposed to lock Q3 priorities by next Friday.
Yeah, that's the thing with leadership transitions — the calendar stuff is always the first casualty. Are you going to push for the review to still happen?
I think I have to. I'm going to draft the priorities doc this weekend and try to get Mark to bless it on Monday. If I wait for him to drive it we'll be in October before anything ships.
That's the move. Honestly leading from underneath in a transition is one of the best ways to get noticed for the next level. What's actually on the Q3 list?
Three big rocks. The billing rewrite, which is overdue. Self-serve onboarding, which marketing's been begging for. And then a real attempt at the enterprise SSO story, which we keep punting on.
If you can only ship two of those by end of Q3, which two?
Honestly? Billing and self-serve. SSO is the right thing for revenue but it's a six-month project and we'd be lying if we said we could do it in a quarter on top of the other two. I'd rather scope it as a Q4 commitment with a real design partner.
That sounds right. Pick the design partner first though — don't start the build until you have one signed up. Otherwise you'll end up building for nobody.
Yeah, good call. Okay enough work talk, I need a mental break. How's the new role treating you?
It's good. Weird, but good. Going from IC to manager is so much more about scheduling than I expected. Like half my brain is just calendar Tetris now.
Ha, welcome to the club. Are you still getting any real coding time?
Maybe four hours a week if I'm lucky. I blocked Friday afternoons as no-meeting time but it never holds. Someone always 'just needs fifteen minutes.'
Be ruthless about it. Move it to mornings if you have to — afternoons are too easy for people to colonize. And actually decline things, don't just tentative.
That's fair. I think I'm still in the 'don't want to seem unavailable' phase. I'll try shifting it to Tuesday and Thursday mornings next week.
Oh — that reminds me. I finally booked the Lisbon trip. Ten days in September.
Wait, you actually pulled the trigger? That's amazing. Solo or with someone?
Solo for the first five days, then Jamie meets me there. He's been hyping it for months. I haven't booked any of the lodging yet though, that's where I'm stuck.
Stay in Alfama. Seriously, way more atmosphere than the touristy stuff up by Avenida. There's a small guesthouse called Casa do Bairro — I'll dig up the name and send it. Around eighty euros a night and the host makes breakfast.
Sold. Send me the link tonight if you can find it.
Will do. Also you have to do the day trip to Sintra, even if it feels touristy. Take the early train, do Pena Palace first before the buses arrive, then walk down to Quinta da Regaleira.
Got it. What about food? Jamie's vegetarian, so we need at least a few places that aren't all bacalhau.
Oh, easy. There's a place in Príncipe Real called Jardim das Cerejas that's fully vegetarian and incredible. And the Time Out Market has enough variety that you'll both be happy. I'll text you the full list tonight — I keep a note of every place I went.
You're the best. What about the seafood spot you couldn't stop talking about?
Cervejaria Ramiro. It's the one place I'd say go alone if you have to. Get the tiger prawns and the bread with garlic at the end. Don't fill up on the bread first, that's the rookie mistake.
Noted. Okay, let's grab actual lunch next week before I leave — I want to hear how the Q3 stuff lands and how the no-meeting Fridays go.
Yes please. Tuesday or Thursday works for me, your call. Pick somewhere not in the office neighborhood, I need to escape.
Thursday. Let's do that ramen place by the park, twelve thirty?
Done. Send me an invite so it actually exists. And drink water on your flight, you always forget.
Ha, I'll try. Thanks for this — needed it more than I realized.
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