Meeting Title: Insomnia Standup Date: 2025-09-24 Meeting participants: Samuel Roberts, Shreya Chowdhury, Justin Breshears, Casie Aviles
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1 00:00:23.890 ⇒ 00:00:25.379 Shreya Chowdhury: Hey, Sam, how’s it going?
2 00:00:25.380 ⇒ 00:00:32.900 Samuel Roberts: Good, how are you? Oh, just a few backgrounds. I just played around with that, because I saw Justin had it, and I was like, where do I get that?
3 00:00:33.060 ⇒ 00:00:37.779 Shreya Chowdhury: I was literally thinking the same thing, I was like, I’m gonna copy Justin and do that, it’s so professional.
4 00:00:37.780 ⇒ 00:00:38.420 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
5 00:00:38.540 ⇒ 00:00:41.879 Samuel Roberts: I don’t know if I’ll stick with it for internal meetings, but external might be a name.
6 00:00:42.800 ⇒ 00:00:46.590 Samuel Roberts: But I also, like, a little… Weird.
7 00:00:46.970 ⇒ 00:00:49.240 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, the green… yeah, yeah.
8 00:00:50.260 ⇒ 00:00:54.049 Shreya Chowdhury: his before, I think he had, like, an all-black one, and I was like.
9 00:00:54.170 ⇒ 00:00:59.049 Shreya Chowdhury: the first couple times, like, it blended in so smooth. Oh, he’s here. Yeah.
10 00:00:59.180 ⇒ 00:01:04.640 Shreya Chowdhury: Justin, we were just talking about you and how we’re gonna copy you, and use the Brainforge background.
11 00:01:05.209 ⇒ 00:01:07.819 Justin Breshears: Yeah, join the party!
12 00:01:07.820 ⇒ 00:01:15.590 Shreya Chowdhury: No, because the first time, I think you had, like, a black one that, like, it blended in so nicely, I thought, I was like, oh, dang, like.
13 00:01:15.730 ⇒ 00:01:19.170 Shreya Chowdhury: That just must be, like, whatever room he’s in.
14 00:01:19.170 ⇒ 00:01:20.380 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, it was pretty good.
15 00:01:20.730 ⇒ 00:01:28.239 Justin Breshears: No, I just literally copied a picture off of Google and, used it as my background.
16 00:01:28.240 ⇒ 00:01:37.090 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, no, after… I think it was not until, like, a few meetings in where it would shift, and I would kind of see. I was like, oh, this whole time I thought he was just, like… he just had, like, a cave room that he worked in.
17 00:01:37.090 ⇒ 00:01:47.789 Justin Breshears: Well, my room is kind of cave-like, because as you see, like, I just… I just turned on my, like, light to actually, you know, be able to see me, but it’s pretty dark in here.
18 00:01:48.540 ⇒ 00:01:53.599 Justin Breshears: I call it my cave when I talk to my wife. I’m like, I’m just up in my cave all day, I didn’t get off.
19 00:01:56.050 ⇒ 00:02:01.309 Justin Breshears: One day I will have a house that I can have a dedicated office in, but right now I kind of share it with our guest room, so…
20 00:02:03.520 ⇒ 00:02:07.489 Justin Breshears: Anyway, yeah, join the… join the Brainforge background party. It’s a fun one.
21 00:02:08.300 ⇒ 00:02:11.010 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, I think I’ll change that later today.
22 00:02:12.850 ⇒ 00:02:15.390 Samuel Roberts: I saw you also updated your photo, is that just in Zoom?
23 00:02:16.210 ⇒ 00:02:16.940 Samuel Roberts: And so I…
24 00:02:16.940 ⇒ 00:02:18.950 Justin Breshears: updated it on Slack, too, yeah.
25 00:02:19.280 ⇒ 00:02:23.229 Samuel Roberts: Not Google, is what I was wondering. I don’t think I can change it, I think it’s locked down.
26 00:02:23.230 ⇒ 00:02:29.919 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, I think I got a message from Rico asking to change my Slack photo and also submit one, so I’m gonna try and…
27 00:02:29.920 ⇒ 00:02:35.139 Justin Breshears: I got that same message, and I’m like… I was kind of waiting until I could take a new headshot.
28 00:02:35.140 ⇒ 00:02:35.620 Shreya Chowdhury: That’s.
29 00:02:35.620 ⇒ 00:02:42.449 Justin Breshears: Because the one I just uploaded was the one I’ve been using since 2019, and I’m like, mmm… probably need to update that, but…
30 00:02:42.450 ⇒ 00:02:51.700 Shreya Chowdhury: I’m like, I’ve definitely aged a little bit since, like, anything old I have, like, on LinkedIn or any old headshot, but then he was like, hey, following up on this request, I was like, oh, okay.
31 00:02:52.300 ⇒ 00:02:54.180 Justin Breshears: Yeah, I know.
32 00:02:54.920 ⇒ 00:02:56.860 Samuel Roberts: I haven’t even have a good headshot for…
33 00:02:56.860 ⇒ 00:03:02.040 Justin Breshears: Two kids later, I’ve got a few more gray hairs and some bags under my eyes since this photo.
34 00:03:02.040 ⇒ 00:03:06.899 Samuel Roberts: The photo on LinkedIn, I want to say, is over a decade old. I don’t have a beard or anything.
35 00:03:07.420 ⇒ 00:03:11.049 Samuel Roberts: But people see that, and then meet me, and they’re like, whoa, okay.
36 00:03:11.230 ⇒ 00:03:20.630 Shreya Chowdhury: I had one from my college graduation up for a while, but then I had, like, a former coworker, and he was like, no, no, like, I tried to make myself
37 00:03:20.860 ⇒ 00:03:31.600 Shreya Chowdhury: look more older, so that, you know, when recruiters reach out to you, or like, when you, like, apply for jobs, like, you can go higher than the entry-level ones. I was like, okay, for sure, like.
38 00:03:31.810 ⇒ 00:03:34.539 Shreya Chowdhury: So, you know, grays might help.
39 00:03:35.630 ⇒ 00:03:39.420 Justin Breshears: It’s not a bad way to look at it. I like that. I’ll take it.
40 00:03:40.080 ⇒ 00:03:52.689 Justin Breshears: I’m, like, concerned about getting gray, because everybody on my father’s side, went gray in, like, their 30s, and I’m like… I’m 32, so I’m like, am I gonna do it? We’ll see. They keep popping up.
41 00:03:52.940 ⇒ 00:03:57.039 Shreya Chowdhury: But is it, is it just going gray? Like, do they still have a full head of hair?
42 00:03:57.270 ⇒ 00:04:00.440 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah, everybody had, like, a full head of hair, which is nice.
43 00:04:00.440 ⇒ 00:04:00.880 Shreya Chowdhury: That’s a fun.
44 00:04:00.880 ⇒ 00:04:03.229 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah, I’ll take that over the alternative.
45 00:04:03.230 ⇒ 00:04:04.240 Shreya Chowdhury: distinguished, yeah.
46 00:04:04.570 ⇒ 00:04:08.480 Justin Breshears: Because my mother’s side, all the men lost their hair, so I’m like, I’ll take…
47 00:04:08.480 ⇒ 00:04:09.249 Shreya Chowdhury: I’ll take.
48 00:04:09.250 ⇒ 00:04:10.140 Justin Breshears: the grays.
49 00:04:10.140 ⇒ 00:04:11.010 Samuel Roberts: It’s a scary one, though.
50 00:04:11.010 ⇒ 00:04:16.529 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, I was gonna say, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think for men, it is, like, inherited from… Yeah.
51 00:04:16.769 ⇒ 00:04:20.439 Justin Breshears: I… I’ve heard that too, I just… I just stick my head in the sand and refuse.
52 00:04:20.440 ⇒ 00:04:21.990 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, yeah, don’t accept it, don’t claim it.
53 00:04:21.990 ⇒ 00:04:23.990 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, exactly.
54 00:04:24.100 ⇒ 00:04:26.690 Justin Breshears: I’m gonna be that one anomaly.
55 00:04:27.460 ⇒ 00:04:39.999 Justin Breshears: But, anyway. Okay, let’s dive in. Let’s start with you, Casey, because yours should be pretty easy. Any updates, or are we just chugging along with the daily scorecard?
56 00:04:40.670 ⇒ 00:04:48.310 Casie Aviles: Yeah, just, working, I just work on this daily, my only update is that I launched,
57 00:04:48.500 ⇒ 00:04:52.460 Casie Aviles: going to hand over to Mustafa, and I’ve confirmed with him that he’ll be…
58 00:04:53.200 ⇒ 00:04:55.680 Casie Aviles: Taking over for next week.
59 00:04:55.680 ⇒ 00:04:57.969 Samuel Roberts: Okay, well, that was gonna be my question.
60 00:04:58.430 ⇒ 00:05:00.579 Justin Breshears: Beautiful. Thank you.
61 00:05:01.740 ⇒ 00:05:06.390 Justin Breshears: Appreciate that. Are you just taking some time off and a little vacation, or what?
62 00:05:06.990 ⇒ 00:05:11.829 Casie Aviles: Yeah, it’s a vacation. I’ll be going to a concert.
63 00:05:12.660 ⇒ 00:05:13.460 Justin Breshears: Nice.
64 00:05:13.840 ⇒ 00:05:15.779 Justin Breshears: Enjoy, enjoy the time off.
65 00:05:15.780 ⇒ 00:05:16.290 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
66 00:05:16.290 ⇒ 00:05:17.060 Justin Breshears: We’ve earned it.
67 00:05:17.060 ⇒ 00:05:17.830 Casie Aviles: Thank you.
68 00:05:19.670 ⇒ 00:05:21.030 Justin Breshears: Cool, Shreya.
69 00:05:21.440 ⇒ 00:05:35.090 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, unfortunately, I have no tickets to clear up. I’m in progress in all of them, but I’m hoping to finish them up, finish up at least, like, a couple by the end of the week.
70 00:05:35.090 ⇒ 00:05:53.350 Shreya Chowdhury: some of them might need to, like, I might need to extend the deadline to next week, but if I can do it on Friday, then I’ll just get it done. Today, I’m gonna focus on wrapping up the data validation stuff, so Casey, I think I sent you a message on Slack, but I’m hoping you’ll have some time
71 00:05:53.350 ⇒ 00:05:55.280 Shreya Chowdhury: Today,
72 00:05:55.360 ⇒ 00:06:04.369 Shreya Chowdhury: to just sync on those and make sure that we have the right, like, I just want to go through and spot check some of the data to make sure that we don’t…
73 00:06:04.450 ⇒ 00:06:18.039 Shreya Chowdhury: run into the same problems this next week, or if we do, if Insomnia comes back and is like, no, this data is wrong, then at least we can be bolstered by our spreadsheet and be like, no, look, this is exactly what you guys gave us.
74 00:06:18.500 ⇒ 00:06:19.200 Casie Aviles: Okay.
75 00:06:19.720 ⇒ 00:06:20.250 Casie Aviles: Yeah.
76 00:06:20.250 ⇒ 00:06:31.719 Shreya Chowdhury: So let me know what your schedule looks like. My calendar’s pretty free the rest of the day, but that’s, like, the ones that I would like to wrap up, and then once I wrap those up, my October analysis should be wrapped up, too.
77 00:06:33.770 ⇒ 00:06:35.370 Casie Aviles: Alright, sure.
78 00:06:36.320 ⇒ 00:06:37.690 Casie Aviles: Take a look at that.
79 00:06:38.480 ⇒ 00:06:42.030 Justin Breshears: So this is the one you said, first… first target is get this done.
80 00:06:42.030 ⇒ 00:06:50.250 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, so there’s the spot check email data validation, and I think there’s another one for validating the backfill, so there’s two… yeah, right there, that one.
81 00:06:50.500 ⇒ 00:06:57.380 Justin Breshears: Let’s put those in there, I’ll put it… An option for today.
82 00:06:58.870 ⇒ 00:07:01.490 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, you can type today, but it doesn’t pop up there, I noticed.
83 00:07:01.780 ⇒ 00:07:02.590 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
84 00:07:02.770 ⇒ 00:07:03.809 Justin Breshears: I tried.
85 00:07:03.810 ⇒ 00:07:10.940 Shreya Chowdhury: on my end, but, like, it changed it, and then now that I’m looking at it, it goes back to saying overdue, so I don’t know.
86 00:07:11.040 ⇒ 00:07:11.820 Shreya Chowdhury: All good.
87 00:07:11.820 ⇒ 00:07:28.799 Justin Breshears: Yeah, let’s update these. I kind of want to get an order of operations here, so the way I like to… to handle, like, a board like this is just, like, you know, one… one at a time in progress, and then we’ll get a nice little, you know, order of the ones that you’ll tackle next. So, which of these are we gonna…
88 00:07:28.800 ⇒ 00:07:33.529 Shreya Chowdhury: So, it’ll be the,
89 00:07:33.940 ⇒ 00:07:45.609 Shreya Chowdhury: let’s see… the Extend Brainforge strategy deck, so that one, I think let’s set that to, Thursday end of this week, yeah, that’ll be good.
90 00:07:46.010 ⇒ 00:07:47.570 Justin Breshears: Okay, let’s speak on this.
91 00:07:47.780 ⇒ 00:07:53.190 Justin Breshears: Do we need to push any of these to the next cycle?
92 00:07:53.360 ⇒ 00:07:59.750 Shreya Chowdhury: I think the validate with birdie, let’s just move that as done.
93 00:08:00.490 ⇒ 00:08:01.590 Shreya Chowdhury: What’s going on.
94 00:08:01.590 ⇒ 00:08:02.700 Justin Breshears: about that one.
95 00:08:02.700 ⇒ 00:08:09.310 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, so that one’s done, and then the…
96 00:08:10.370 ⇒ 00:08:14.369 Shreya Chowdhury: I think that one we can also move as done, the weekly readout template.
97 00:08:17.200 ⇒ 00:08:36.289 Shreya Chowdhury: And then, for the analyzing platform spend, let’s move that to next week. One thing, I think, Justin, you mentioned that you were gonna work with Amrita to prioritize all of the requests. I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to do that yet,
98 00:08:36.289 ⇒ 00:08:37.320 Shreya Chowdhury: But…
99 00:08:37.390 ⇒ 00:08:45.330 Shreya Chowdhury: for me right now, the way that I’m going through it is, like, I’m just prioritizing the October one, and then I’m gonna work on that one.
100 00:08:45.550 ⇒ 00:08:58.369 Shreya Chowdhury: That request did come in last week, so I just want to make sure they know we haven’t forgotten about it, so if you don’t get a chance to, like, send a message in the channel today, I might just respond to her saying, like, is it okay if we get to this, by early next week?
101 00:08:58.480 ⇒ 00:08:59.050 Shreya Chowdhury: to.
102 00:08:59.050 ⇒ 00:08:59.650 Justin Breshears: Yeah.
103 00:08:59.650 ⇒ 00:09:01.000 Shreya Chowdhury: October planning.
104 00:09:01.460 ⇒ 00:09:10.979 Justin Breshears: Please send that message, because here in a little bit, I’m about to travel to Austin and… for a conference with Tom, so I may not have some time today.
105 00:09:10.980 ⇒ 00:09:19.970 Shreya Chowdhury: Alright, yeah. I’ll just… it probably won’t be, like, a large formal one, like, it’ll just be a respondent thread saying, like, hey, like, is it alright if we get this to you next week?
106 00:09:19.970 ⇒ 00:09:20.530 Justin Breshears: Fine.
107 00:09:20.560 ⇒ 00:09:24.100 Shreya Chowdhury: I think that sort of thing is, like, feel free, like.
108 00:09:24.100 ⇒ 00:09:38.910 Justin Breshears: clarify priorities with clients, like, you know, all that communication is… is key, because, like you said, we don’t want to… we don’t want them to send us a message later on being like, well, why hasn’t this gotten done yet, right? Because we didn’t prioritize this. So, yeah, I think that’s… that’s good communication with them.
109 00:09:39.380 ⇒ 00:09:44.890 Justin Breshears: Okay, so I put that one to be, like, middle of next week. We can move it if we need to, once we get.
110 00:09:44.890 ⇒ 00:09:56.340 Shreya Chowdhury: And then… Yeah, as far as the investigate email, this one, let’s extend to, like, next week, or honestly, the week onwards, because that one is a very longer, ongoing thing.
111 00:09:56.500 ⇒ 00:09:57.210 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
112 00:09:57.210 ⇒ 00:10:04.530 Justin Breshears: Is there a way that we can break it? Because I know last time we talked, you said you could maybe break it up into, like, smaller tickets. Is there…
113 00:10:04.760 ⇒ 00:10:06.359 Justin Breshears: A way that we can do that.
114 00:10:06.360 ⇒ 00:10:12.660 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, so the only thing with that is, like, I can break it up into smaller tickets,
115 00:10:14.300 ⇒ 00:10:20.709 Shreya Chowdhury: Then, we could probably just… the only thing with this is, like, there,
116 00:10:22.730 ⇒ 00:10:28.250 Shreya Chowdhury: I don’t know if they wanted all of this as part of one analysis.
117 00:10:28.250 ⇒ 00:10:31.760 Justin Breshears: Okay, so if it’s one deliverable, let’s keep it together, like…
118 00:10:31.760 ⇒ 00:10:33.109 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, what, or, like, what…
119 00:10:33.110 ⇒ 00:10:33.830 Justin Breshears: complicated.
120 00:10:33.830 ⇒ 00:10:42.759 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, like, because the way that we have it now is, like, each project is based on… it’s, like, per client, so I don’t… I don’t… unless there’s a way in linear to do, like.
121 00:10:42.780 ⇒ 00:10:55.950 Shreya Chowdhury: break it down by client, project, and then sub-whatever. But I feel like if this is, like, it’s just one long, ongoing thing, like, I wonder if it’s worth just keeping it as, like, throughout the whole cycle, and then eventually we can close that out.
122 00:10:57.550 ⇒ 00:11:02.609 Justin Breshears: Yeah, that’s one thing that I’m trying to think of how to track, because I don’t.
123 00:11:02.610 ⇒ 00:11:03.620 Samuel Roberts: You can do sub-ticket.
124 00:11:03.620 ⇒ 00:11:04.210 Justin Breshears: I’m going to.
125 00:11:04.210 ⇒ 00:11:08.819 Samuel Roberts: like… like, do this chunk, do that chunk. You can add sub-tickets to tickets.
126 00:11:08.860 ⇒ 00:11:09.840 Shreya Chowdhury: Okay.
127 00:11:10.330 ⇒ 00:11:17.309 Samuel Roberts: I don’t know what this task is specifically, if there’s ways to be like, this week is getting this done, this next week is getting that done next week, and then we’re closing it, kind of thing.
128 00:11:17.310 ⇒ 00:11:37.640 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, because I also… for that one, I think I did, like, a good amount of the work there, too, so… like, what I can do is, like, go back and delete the work that’s, like, in progress or blocked, and just move it to done, which is, like, a half cheat code, and then, like, the other ones, like, we can sort of break out into requests, but all the requests we’re getting now is kind of, like.
129 00:11:37.640 ⇒ 00:11:53.669 Justin Breshears: built on top of that previous one. Right. So I just… And that… and that’s where I don’t like tickets like this, because, like, if I open this up, I have no idea, really, like, what you’ve done or not done in this. Like, I mean, I know you have, like, the colors here or whatever, but, like.
130 00:11:54.120 ⇒ 00:11:55.510 Justin Breshears: it’s better…
131 00:11:56.050 ⇒ 00:12:08.670 Justin Breshears: for, like, reporting purposes and linear, right? Like, this is a 5-point ticket that is just, like, showing as in progress for a long time, right? Like, there’s not… like, these statuses that you have in the description here.
132 00:12:08.870 ⇒ 00:12:19.909 Justin Breshears: don’t, like, feed into, like, any kind of, you know, reporting. So, the goal kind of is, like, at the end of the week, eventually, I want to be able to, like, automate a status report based on, like, this linear ticket data.
133 00:12:19.910 ⇒ 00:12:30.010 Justin Breshears: That goes to the client, and we can, you know, update them on, like, all the work they did, and stuff like that. So, that’s kind of where my head’s at with it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with, like, the way that you’re tracking it.
134 00:12:30.660 ⇒ 00:12:34.050 Justin Breshears: It’s just those, like, little nuances of, like, okay, how do we…
135 00:12:34.270 ⇒ 00:12:35.969 Justin Breshears: What do we track it with like that?
136 00:12:36.370 ⇒ 00:12:48.860 Shreya Chowdhury: No, yeah, that’s totally fair. I think the organization for this one, like, there was a bit of a learning curve for me, because when the initial request would come in, it would be, like, all in one thread, so I was like, I want to make sure I don’t miss anything when I make the tickets, and then…
137 00:12:48.860 ⇒ 00:12:50.830 Justin Breshears: Those are chaotic. Yeah.
138 00:12:50.830 ⇒ 00:12:53.029 Shreya Chowdhury: And, like, as I’m going through, it’s almost like…
139 00:12:53.030 ⇒ 00:12:53.350 Justin Breshears: up.
140 00:12:53.350 ⇒ 00:13:07.929 Shreya Chowdhury: it’s, like, extra work to, like, reorganize out each task by ticket while I’m doing it, so I kind of just do it at the end. But I’m gonna try and do a better job of doing it throughout, just so, like, we’re all, like, up-to-date on it.
141 00:13:07.930 ⇒ 00:13:17.890 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah, that’d be cool. So we’ll think about that specific one, but no worries, we’ll leave it there for now, and I think we’ve got a good step-by-step for the next thing we’re working on, so…
142 00:13:17.890 ⇒ 00:13:25.349 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, for everything that came on afterwards, I was like, I’m gonna break these down into, like, as small and as many small ones as I can. But yeah.
143 00:13:25.350 ⇒ 00:13:32.389 Justin Breshears: Yeah, that’s… that’s helpful. Cool. Anything else, team? Anything more blocked on, or that we need clarity on?
144 00:13:36.110 ⇒ 00:13:44.409 Shreya Chowdhury: Mmm… I think nothing from my end, besides just,
145 00:13:44.690 ⇒ 00:13:49.080 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, like, re… like, getting prioritization from Amrita.
146 00:13:49.230 ⇒ 00:13:51.860 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
147 00:13:52.510 ⇒ 00:13:53.080 Justin Breshears: Cool.
148 00:13:54.020 ⇒ 00:13:54.970 Justin Breshears: Correct.
149 00:13:55.410 ⇒ 00:13:58.179 Justin Breshears: Let’s keep rockin’ and rollin’. Appreciate you all. Have a great day.
150 00:13:58.640 ⇒ 00:13:59.450 Shreya Chowdhury: Bye.
151 00:13:59.730 ⇒ 00:14:00.170 Samuel Roberts: Okay.
152 00:14:00.170 ⇒ 00:14:00.760 Casie Aviles: Thank you.