Humetrical ( https://humetrical.com ) -- A wellness platform that puts people's mental health first by showing work metrics that matter. Because burnout blindness leads to exit interviews.
It wasn't until we had a leadership retreat at my day job with a fantastic speaker (Woodrie Burich) that the idea for my platform spawned. She talked about how the $50B wellness industry is doing it wrong. Your company is giving you useless yoga stipends, when truth is they should be paying attention to your overall well being. One idea she presented that resonated with me was using a traffic light-like system to gauge where your employees are mentally at.
I took that to heart and verbally applied it to my team. Then I realized that a platform would give better visuals of the data and be easier to incorporate into everyone's day to day. A couple months later I finally released it.
I like this in principle. More managers should be in tune with how their people are doing because happy people lead to better work. I'm skeptical about the accuracy of wellbeing metrics when they are self-reported, though. And also whether people will just reflexively click the highest rating for each metric after the first few weeks. Managers will see "line went up" and think they fixed their team, when in reality the employees just got bored of the answering the same questions every day.
Not saying I have answers to these, but thanks for trying to move the needle the right way.
I appreciate the feedback. I have been talking to a lot of people about the very same point you make and had a lot of good brainstorming sessions.
I introduced functionality to do it once per week, or specific days, and not just every day to partially alleviate the process if it gets tedious.
More importantly, I see two things:
1. If people have a constant score over time, that should lead to a discussion. I'm not sure what, but it aligns with the goal - get them talking to each other and asking if everything is truly ok
2. If a manager doesn't invest themselves in the process, then yes, it just turns into a "keep the lines aligned" game. I have no fix for this, but those people probably weren't the target of this product anyways
I keep going back and forth on it. In certain lights it genuinely seems useful. In others, hard to say.
It was fun to build. I'll keep tinkering with it for now and see where it ends up later this year.
The font (family) is a variant of Computer Modern. Computer Modern is, unfortunately, an extreme example of the problem where a font designed to compensate for ink spread on physical paper looks overly thin on a computer screen. It is also, unfortunately, one of the very few free fonts with good support for mathematics.
you can run them by clicking the Tampermonkey icon and picking the action you want. You can add website dependent snippets by checking the location before you register the menu items, it's dynamic.
I've been an EM for the last 10 of my 25 year Software Engineering career. Coding is, frankly, boring to me anymore, even though I enjoyed doing it most of my career. I had this project I wanted to exist in world but couldn't be bothered to get started.
Decided to figure out what this "vibe coding" nonsense is, and now there's a certain level of joy to all of this again. Being able to clearly define everything using markdown contexts before any code is even written has been a great way to brain dump those 25 years of experience and actually watch something sane get produced.
I then realized I could feed it everything it ever needed to know. Just create a docs/* folder and tell it to read that every session.
Through discovery I learned about CLAUDE.md, and adding skills.
Now I have an /analyst, /engineer, and /devops that I talk to all day with their own logic and limitations, as well as the more general project CLAUDE.md, and dozens of docs/* files we collaborate on.
I'm at the point I'm running happy.engineering on my phone and don't even need to sit in front of the computer anymore.
My team still has 8 year old Haskell systems in production. We pivoted away from the language a few years ago, which I discuss here a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746386
I personally love ML languages and would be happy to keep developing in them, but the ecosystem support can be a bit of a hassle if you aren't willing to invest in writing and maintaining libraries yourself.
I have a similar sentiment. While attending university and learning Maya on SGIs, I recall finding Blender in 1997 and chatting with Ton a little in their IRC channel. Was never able to make a career out of it, but I sincerely miss how kind and helpful everyone was.
I don't work here but have some insight. It's difficult for a lot of companies to vet the proper labor and tax laws required per state, and even city, to hire an individual. Some states even require that their rules be blanket applied to your entire corporation, which may not always be feasible.
It wasn't until we had a leadership retreat at my day job with a fantastic speaker (Woodrie Burich) that the idea for my platform spawned. She talked about how the $50B wellness industry is doing it wrong. Your company is giving you useless yoga stipends, when truth is they should be paying attention to your overall well being. One idea she presented that resonated with me was using a traffic light-like system to gauge where your employees are mentally at.
I took that to heart and verbally applied it to my team. Then I realized that a platform would give better visuals of the data and be easier to incorporate into everyone's day to day. A couple months later I finally released it.
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