2 Truths & a Lie

PH fam! 👋

I’m thrilled to launch 2 truths and a lie today.

It is a brand new social activity (we call it a mixer) by Thursday (https://thursday.social/). It is the perfect team-building exercise for remote teams.

In the summer of 2021, when we were onboarding and welcoming new hires in a remote setting, we played 2 truths & a lie on a zoom call over our first social (we used to call it chai time).

It was a brilliant icebreaker. We got to know each other better. But we wished we could do this in a relaxed setting. Zoom just felt like work. And I had to drive everything. Without any prompts, there were awkward silences and long wait times. We just knew we had to build this the fun way on Thursday 💜.

@almost_designer has done a wonderful job designing the experience, and @sarthak_das19 with building it (in React and Go). 👏

We thoroughly enjoyed dogfooding this mixer ourselves. Interesting facts were discovered. Now I know who in my team is an excellent whistler, who has never broken a bone, who has visited over 20 states in India, who’s terrible at blowing balloons, and who falls asleep at work. 😎

Try it out with your team, and let me know what you think of it.

Btw, just like with Thursday’s launch last year, this time as well, we built this public PH launch tracker to share our launch data (visitors, countries, browsers, etc.) with you: https://thursday.social/ttal-lau...

P.S. I’ll be here all day and will be happy to answer any questions.