To people managing engineers: do not underestimate how much devs like building.

Organize hack days, give them a budget and some room to have fun and prototype things (without any scope) and you’ll often find you can find magic.

Google did this really well when they were a startup. Maps and gmail came from it.

Building https://srcbook.com // creator of the https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

"Runners get a kick from running, devs get a kick from building stuff."

Hackathons at Microsoft were so fun. Satya seemed to be encouraging them as they started appearing more and more my last year (2016). Some of our best work came from those. Hope they kept up that trend.

I got people on the hackathon train at my first startup. A good chunk of features we shipped came from hackathons!

Any Devs want to experiment, Nouns is a fun place to try interacting experiments ⌐◨-◨

This is double-true for any infra/API company. Use hackathons for docs feedback, finding bugs, discovering new use-cases, branding towards devs etc etc