I Was A Judge

Rituals build great companies and products. This ritual at Coda took me by surprise.

I was not a judge in the legal sense. Anyone who knows me, even just a little, would realize this would be a bad idea. Rather, I was asked to judge teams working on new features.

Behind the curtain, deep inside the organization, Coda has a long-standing ritual - internal hackathons. Yesterday was hackathon number 20. As evidenced by the hackathon teams d…