Isla Catherine's profile on Product Hunt

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I’m a student at Pepperdine University with a passion for techical theatre, specializing in Lighting Design and Stage Management. Over the past 5 years, I’ve successfully stage managed a number of shows and designed a few, helping with rehearsals and design concepts, achieve performances that people enjoy. I thrive in environments that challenge me to problem solve under pressure and to lead others. My experience spans technical theatre, where I’ve honed skills in Microsoft, ETC, GrandMA3, Organization and Time Management. I’m particularly proud of my ability to understand that time is important when it comes to theatre and that I could keep organized and accoutable for my actors and fellow crew memebers.

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2d ago

Our fastest-growing feature was a keyboard shortcut we never documented.

We tracked feature adoption across 6 months. The fastest-growing "feature" was a keyboard shortcut that was not in our docs, not in our onboarding, and not in our release notes. It had been added by an engineer as a personal convenience and shipped without announcement.

Weekly users after 6 months: 3,100. Our documented shortcut with the highest adoption: 900.

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4d ago

Burnout does not announce itself. It accumulates.

I did not notice I was burning out until I was already there. There was no single moment. It was a series of small things that individually seemed reasonable:

Answering one message at 11pm because it would take 30 seconds
Skipping one workout because there was a deadline
Taking one call on a Sunday because the timezone worked
Not taking a day off because nothing was on fire

Each one was defensible. Together they were a slow leak. By the time I noticed, I had been running on fumes for months and had convinced myself I was fine because I was still shipping.

The thing that helped was not a vacation. It was writing down a hard rule: no work after 8pm, no exceptions, for 30 days. The first week was uncomfortable. The second week I started sleeping properly. By the fourth week I was making better decisions and had stopped dreading the morning.