Monday
8:00 a.m. I woke up this morning and did some email in bed. I’ve been trying to avoid doing this so I can draw boundaries around my workday, but some days I can’t help going straight to my inbox. I need to get better at this!
11:00 a.m. I had a call with UX Writing and Marketing to discuss a recent research project around how creators experience YouTube’s communications. This is probably the work project I’m most excited about right now because it touches on so many different aspects of the creator experience and it has involved working with people from nearly every team at YouTube.
12:30 p.m. YouTube’s UX team has a global kickoff each Monday where I get to hear from my colleagues around the world.
1:00 p.m. My husband and I cooked lunch together.
2:00 p.m. I watched YouTube! This is my favorite perk of my job :) Keeping up with what’s happening on the platform, finding new exciting creators I’d like to work with, and watching what my creator friends are uploading is part of my job.
3:00 p.m. Coffee break. I’m trying to learn how to do latte art. I’m still pretty bad at it, but practicing daily during quarantine has really helped me improve. Some of the best baristas in the world have created video tutorials on YouTube. Today I watched this video on how to steam milk by Chris Baca. (Subscribe to his channel if caffeine is your fuel of choice.)
5:00 p.m. Responding to some emails to wrap up the day. I reached out to creators I’ll be working with remotely next week.
Today’s highlight: My favorite movie ever is Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” and to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone posted this reunion roundtable that made me very happy.