Skills
We are a small team but even so there’s quite a mix of interests, personalities and even food tastes amongst the members of messaliberty. One reason I joined messaliberty was that I would have an opportunity to learn more things in my chosen fields. Usability, IA, online marketing and so on. Learning by doing is a big part of working at a start-up. I asked the team what skills they are looking to learn and master. Here some of things they mentioned. Har: Ruby on Rails *nix/Server administration AIR apps development English Ice: Ruby on Rails Pragger (Plagger for Ruby) Advanced Emacs Lisp Haskell GIMP/Inkscape Movie editing Self-management English Chapp: English Finance Ruby, RoR, Ruby Shoes Marketing Business administration WordPress &...
What do you not eat?
Chapp as well as being our main designer, cooks and serves us up lunch and dinner. But this isn’t about how great a chef he is, I’ll let someone else write that post. It is about how difficult his task must be because of the differing tastes of each member. Let me reveal what we don’t eat. Chapp himself: He isn’t keen on shiitake mushrooms but does eat them. He doesn’t eat oysters. Obviously he doesn’t cook what he won’t eat so no kaki-fry for us. :( Har: He doesn’t eat mushrooms, or black-looking things so shiitake are definitely out. Not keen on dried fruit like raisins or dried persimmons. Ice: Doesn’t eat liver or certain types of mustard. He is “the challenger” when it comes to...