Something spooky is going on. This project is going too well. Clearly I’ve turned into the brain-in-a-jar from Mars Attacks.

Seriously, our technical teams have jumped ahead of schedule on infrastructure and user system design. The documentation guys have finished two pieces that aren’t due until next week. Project stuff is not supposed to go well towards the end of the project.

The backoffice team has completed moving our bank, changing our payment gateway, and changing our internet merchant account. Nobody fixes banking stuff the in the days before thanksgiving. (I figure we’ll save around $100K because of the work they’ve done over the last few months to ‘fix’ our rates. Nice! Money for old rope indeed.)

Our database guy and our lead technical architect got together and figured out an easy way to bring a V/2 feature into launch. I told them to stop because we didn’t need the risk and they laughed at me and told me that it was easier to build it in now because it made several other features almost free. Then they made fun of me for being staid and boring. Then they practically skipped out of the room.

These guys look like trolls with masters degrees and generally walk around muttering big-L libertarian curses against the system and cracking complicated Tolkein puns. They do not hop around the office grinning at how smart they are.

So clearly someone has sprinkled some weird anti-tryptophan laced fairy dust on my team.

I love startups. Complete rebellion in the ranks due to over-performance on stretch goals.

Happy thanksgiving everyone. Spare a thought for our guys in the sandbox.