How the Noonies is Like the Dundies [or at least I told my team that]

Written by David | Published 2020/08/20
Tech Story Tags: noonies | dundies | michael-scott | management | media | office-culture | company-culture | hackernoon-top-story | web-monetization

TLDR The Noonies originally started as a play on the Dundies. The Hacker Noon team decided to have a dedicated week to improve the Noonies. To celebrate 25k+ votes in the first week, I'm releasing a video to celebrate 25,000 votes in first week. I impersonated Micheal Scott the first time he mentioned the Dundie (season 2, episode 1), and sent it to the team. The video was released to celebrate a week of voting for Noonies 2.0.via the TL;DR App

Managing people, meh. Building teams, now that's fun. Is it really interesting to think about how individuals can make others better.
It's a lot of work. But sometimes, you can have fun trying to create inspiration. When the Hacker Noon team started to think about Noonies 2.0, we decided to have a dedicated week where everyone focused on the same thing - improving the Noonies.
So could I pump the team up? I read Shaq wrote his master thesis on how to inspire via humor, and the Noonies did originally start as a play on the Dundies... So I impersonated Micheal Scott the first time he mentioned the Dundies (season 2, episode 1), and sent it to the team. Now, to celebrate 25k+ votes in the first week, I'm releasing that video:

Written by David | Founder & CEO of HackerNoon. Grew up on the east coast. Grew old on the west coast. Now, cooking in Colorado.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/20