Musings

About business

• Efficiency > exact precision for most things
• Good interaction between co-workers is one of the most important things for employee retainment and satisfaction
• Good interaction with clients is what is memorable to clients and makes employees stand out
• Good product is necessary for client retention
• Options (including availability) gets a bigger client base
• There’s always a place for a good employee
• It’s better to have (reasonably) too much than not enough
• People get way more upset about unexpected loss than expected loss
• Special events bring in some traffic but don’t affect long term growth very much
• Focus on what your company is good at, including specific products
• Clients hate things they see as necessary being taken away but will get over it if the product is still good
• Making things look pretty is not of much concern, though it does play a factor
• Group buy in helps immensely

About life

• Meet people where they’re at
• People love and bond over food
• Be open minded at all times
• People can be alone while being surrounded by people
• It’s good, fun, and profitable to meet random people at times
• Everyone has their own story and is awesome in some ways
• Most everyone likes to have a good conversation
• Diversity in choices is necessary to prevent burnout
• There are times for big groups and times for small ones
• Nothing beats a good home cooked meal

Most any time we go to a new place, we are looking to find activities to do. It could be anything from hiking to finding a trendy coffee shop. When I first came to study at the University of Georgia, I found myself in this situation, particularly in respect to finding activities for groups of people to do and activities to do on dates. Over time I came to know a lot of local places and activities, but it took a lot of talking to people and didn’t always come when I wanted it to. It would have been great to have a way to find out about all of those activities quicker and more easily.

My sophomore year, I created a quick little prototype of an app to do just this. I called it Palm Date. It started as a project just so I could practice UI animations but turned into something I could actually use on dates to help us choose activities to do. A gif of how it worked is below.

I’ve had several friends come to me seeking advice for how to get started programming for the web. Most haven’t given too much thought to the idea, but are intrigued by code or websites and want to learn more. If you’re in that position or somewhere similar, this post is for you.

What follows is a collection of recommendations that I have for a person starting out. I’ll keep updating it as time goes on. If you feel like it’s missing something or have a question, don’t hesitate to contact me at hello@zachsaucier.com!

I love life. Relatedly, I love change (when it comes in appropriate ways), customization, and interacting with stuff. That’s a big reason why I really enjoy the work that I do, creating new and unique ways for people to interact with each other and with the content I am providing.

On a seemingly different note, I have warm memories of the screensavers from when I was kid. The brick 3D maze, the pipes, and the rainbow colored shape that kept morphing into a new shapes entranced (distracted) me as a ~7 year old in school.

Also, ever since I got into animating, I’ve wanted to include the things I make into more areas of my life. One area that has come into my mind several times was my desktop background.

If you want to follow along with the music without opening all of the pages, I created a YouTube playlist for this post that includes all but the first 3 songs.

I love music. Especially music that varies throughout the song (not all verses and choruses are the same), layered (multiple instruments are playing harmoniously), unique, the quality of the instruments (including singers) is high, and music that gives off an emotion or feeling (generally energetic and happy is my favorite). Regardless of the genre or creator of the song, if a song has these characteristics it’s likely that I will really enjoy it.

The genre that I’ve listened to that most often has these characteristics is electronic music. I was introduced to it as a kid by an older friend and I’ve been an avid listener for about 10 years now. Today I hope to help you better understand why I fell in love with the gigantic, diverse genre that is electronic music.