We all got really drunk last night. It’s going to be a bit to piece together last nights events but I’m feeling woozy, slow and thrilled at the same time. Yesterday, Thursday, began like many other days in the past weeks started: Wake up, meditate, commute and kick the day off with a team standup via Google Hangouts. Since all of our team happened to be in the office yesterday we split into smaller groups throughout the day to work on discreet tasks and found time later in the afternoon to sit down and talk openly about things we are enjoying and things that we would like to change. The conversation was important because it allowed all of us to learn to express ourselves and open ourselves up to each other. I would say, up until yesterday, we were still just 4 people banding together to make a website. After yesterdays afternoon conversation and the following evening getting drunk on German beer, I feel like we established a baseline for trusting ourselves and each other more. Again, I’m thrilled about the outcome because as a team we need to trust each other and we have to have good reasons to do so in the first place. Trust is something, like love, you can’t force upon someone. I can’t just say “Trust me.” without having proven to you in some way that you can and that it is safe. Trust matters. It’s the invisible glue that holds things together especially when things get rough. Trust is what you notice when it’s missing. I would love to go on on the trust tangent today but darn my mind is slow! The juice detail is that we all had far too much beer yesterday and out of nowhere shots of rum appeared! And I wound up taking a big swill of that transparent liquid (I prefer tequila over any other alcohol but I don’t think that was an option.) Anyways, yadda yadda, we had a good day, had good team conversations, all went out for coffee, figured out a bunch of cool stuff, went out again to the German place, got beers, got more beers, did not eat much and got pretty drunk by midnight. Val, Sandip and I took a cab to Brooklyn together and Val and I crashed at her place eventually. What I didn’t know was how much impact alcohol has on Vals petite body. She did not feel well at all when we woke up around 7am. Her condition worsened as time went on to the point where she threw up several times before 9am. At around 9 I started getting a bit worried about her because she really seemed struggling with getting the alcohol out of her body. She shivered. She sweated. She threw up. Very worrying to see someone you love in distress like that. Anyways, so _that_ happened. And I’m not making a lot of sense today. That’s fine, I’m just going to keep writing and rambling today While I’m writing this, I’m also exploring a Growth Dashboard with Sandip and it’s coming together nicely. We’re building a kick-ass bar-chart system where we’ll be able to see trends and corelations between investors, companies and compensations [](http://bushwickletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2014-05-02-at-3.01.45-PM.png) Oh, also, I added a new feature or re-write for timestacks that I think could be good: Planning my tasks for a day does not require when I’m going to start the day. So, now I’ve got it set up so that you create your list, assign times for each task but it’s not set when the first task on the stack will start. This way, I don’t have to ‘reverse-buffer’ things when I start my day later than I had planned (this can happen easily when I’m commuting or similar) Now, it’s really cool: There’s a big red button “Start Day” that, only when hit, the times on each task are calculated on the fly and this will allow to better adjust and sync tasks/expected times/reality etc. I still have to test it out and play with it. Maybe it’s not working. Maybe it is. The complexity of my UI has grown but I feel it’s much tighter now than for the past year. I definitely am digging the red count-down thingy and it’s good to know that everything is still syncing up with iCal. Well, that’s it for today. Writing these words took much more effort than usual and I do not recommend mixing drinks and writing. Don’t drink and type!