How the Noonies is Like the Dundies [or at least I told my team that]

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20 Aug 2020
Managing people, meh. Building teams, now that's fun. Is it really interesting to think about how individuals can make others better.
It's a lot of work. But sometimes, you can have fun trying to create inspiration. When the Hacker Noon team started to think about Noonies 2.0, we decided to have a dedicated week where everyone focused on the same thing - improving the Noonies.
So could I pump the team up? I read Shaq wrote his master thesis on how to inspire via humor, and the Noonies did originally start as a play on the Dundies... So I impersonated Micheal Scott the first time he mentioned the Dundies (season 2, episode 1), and sent it to the team. Now, to celebrate 25k+ votes in the first week, I'm releasing that video: