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Open Space office, around 20 to 40 people.
A single man is shouting, directing his rage towards someone, possibly on the phone or with a silent employee.

He’s loud, very loud. 
Anyone can hear his voice in the big open space, and many of them are smiling, like if this situation is a bit extreme, thinking “he’s overreacting”.

Eventually the man stops, and for the whole day everyone in the room talks about that angry man, the words he spoken, and how angry he was.

It’s easy to see the excess of anger in someone else, right? But we rarely see this in ourselves.
We fail to see it, because when we’re the one shouting, we think about one thing only.

Our ego.

Testing in real life isn’t much different from the one you do in labs.
The goal is to simplify the variables so taking out or adding one makes a difference in the system.

That’s it. Then you have to figure out why

Right now, mostly on Android, we’re seeing the rise of “Facebook Lite”, “Twitter lite”.
Aside from this, PWA are becoming some sort of thing I might be interested in, mostly because I hate checking out an app and having it use space.

I wonder: what would have been, if the lite version was their priority from day 1?

The net doesn’t grow old like you do. Maybe you entered in the world of internet 20 years ago, and in these 20 years you matured, you learned the etiquette, you started defining an opinion about what’s good and bed on the internet what should be done and what could be avoided.

This growth that you had doesn’t happen globally. People enter the web at different times and ages, and they all go through that kind of growth.

It’s not like there’s a base conscience where everyone knows we should stop writing in caps. No.
There will always be someone that’ll write with caps and make people upset.
Then he/she will learn about it. And in a couple of years they’ll be the one pissed off by some stranger writing with caps lok on.

That’s why to me it’s clear that, from time to time, people will still need to relearn the kindness of entering of another person house. Maybe you have a good position on google for many reason, and they want to build up on that. It’s common, we all think it’s a viable way to get some kind of free promotion, but would you do it in real life?

Would you step into a shoes shop and sell your shoes to the customers of this shop?
I don’t think so. 
But that’s a lesson we’ll all learn, someday.

I work for a company that has 4 offices in the same building. These offices are splitted among skills, not teams, so they are highly specialized.

I’m in the dev’s office, and although crowded, I like it. 

This week though I decided to work from the Project Managers office.
Why?
When someone heads over to you asking for help you often see that as a annoyance, because from your point of you they don’t understand the value of your time. Which is true, but at the same time they also have their problems.

By separating the offices we’re effectively splitting the company into small groups that cannot be bonded together.
So I wanted to work for a couple of days into a different office to feel what it’s like to be there, what’s their problems what are their issues. 

It helped, I got an insight on how they work and how they are trying their best to improve.
I might have took different paths, but aside from this they’re trying their best as everyone in the company is doing, which is of great help.

We tend to see the people we don’t know or of which we don’t have a background as enemies.
But once we’re in their shoes, we see we are on the same boat.