Both Sean and Danny joined in on the meeting and were checking in this morning. We spent a little bit of time and went over some of the intro to world building stuff that I sent around yesterday evening. This is the small five-page doc that Shannon and I have been working on for the adilas core concepts - origins doc. Anyways, we had some fun discussions about some of the concepts. My goal is to keep introducing some of these pieces, one piece or step at a time. I think that the full-blown concept of world buiding or business world building is too deep for people to get right off the bat. However, as they learn about it, I really think it helps them envision possibilities and creates the "why" for what we are doing.

Eric joined and we went over some progress on the sales tax aggregate project. We have learned some big lessons on this one. Anyways, I think that he and Wayne have had some great meetings and have a good plan in place. One of the things that was happening was cross merging. We had some hidden first round pages and prototypes in place on the master branch. Then as new development would happen, even on a different branch, we would merge in the master code branch to keep it up to date. The problem was, the true older code was on the master branch and so it kept overwriting the new development. Anyways, I think we got it figured out. Lots of cause and effect things. It also brings into light the need for a manual touch vs just letting the code or applications do everything automatically. All part of the learning curve and what it takes to have a master code branch, a dev testing branch, and keeping everything straight and still up to date. Lots of challenges.

One other topic that Eric wanted to bring up was a communication platform called "Discord" and how it may help us connect and interact better. We currently use GoToMeeting for online meetings. We also have a number of folks who will pop out to Zoom sessions or whatever. Eric is going to look deeper into Discord and then give me a small walk-through to see if we want to switch and check things out there for some of our meetings and communication needs.

After everybody left, John and I were talking and going over some of his skills and how diverse they are (backend, servers, IT, graphics, frontend UI stuff, and modern trends and strategies). He also has done some managing and admin level stuff in the past. A good mix.