Joshua Fu

8.30 AM 

I love the smell of coffee in the morning, smells like productivity

I like to start my day by reading some tech-related news and other recent events, which usually wakes my brain up for the day and gets things up to speed. Then, I go through my notes from yesterday and pick up where I left off. Movio is quite flexible around working hours and remote work. So I usually work from home in the morning and head into the office later on in the day.

9.30 AM

I live within walking distance of our office, so I stroll into the building just in time for stand-up. As Aucklanders, we start our stand-up with the obligatory weather talk. Afterwards, we talk about what we worked on yesterday and if we have any roadblocks to what we’re working on today. Then we finish our stand-up by doing the daily Stuff quiz as a squad. We have yet to hit 15/15, so that’s one of our targets for this quarter.

10.30 AM

I get snacky, so around 10:30 AM, I like to take my jar of peanut butter to the kitchen and make myself a couple of slices of toast. However, today is Tuesday and not any ordinary Tuesday, it’s Bagel Tuesday. So, by courtesy of Movio, I’ll be having freshly toasted bagels for morning tea.

12.00 PM

Lunchtime is when we catch up with all those in the office today. We see what everyone’s working on and talk about anything else on our minds. We also like to discuss some of the more philosophical questions, such as whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

1.00 PM

Since quite a few of us are in the office today, we’re going to do some mob programming to debug and sort through some issues. This is one of my favourite ways to collaborate with my colleagues. We’ll usually do that for around half an hour to an hour.

4.30 PM 

Clocking out

Near the end of the day, I usually jot down some notes regarding any progress I made today and the direction for tomorrow to help tomorrow-me pick things back up. A few of us are going to play some badminton after work today. It’ll be nice to get some exercise in and catch up with some team members because of our differing remote work schedules.