9 Months into Working from Home, These 6 Things Are Helping Atoms Endure

Way back in March, I surveyed each employee (Atom) at Atomic Object. I tried to get a sense of how we managed to quickly shift from working 100% on-site to 100% remote in a day, with very little notice. (The answers included Discord, Slack, and 1:1 check-ins.) Surely our speedy office exodus was enabled by […]

Are You Sympathetic to Others’ Joy, or Just Their Sorrow?

The title of this post might seem oxymoronic. “Isn’t sympathy reserved for people’s struggles?” you might ask. Turns out, it’s not. The most powerful impact of your sympathy might be when it’s directed at people’s triumphs. What Is Sympathetic Joy? Sympathetic joy is just what it sounds like — focusing your powers of sympathy on […]

The Scientific Approach to Becoming Your Own Good Luck Charm

Think about the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to you. Got it? Good. We’ll come back to that later. Maybe you’re dismissive about the concept of luck. And it makes sense. When you consider the ways we’re taught to attract it, a slew of groundless ideas come to mind. Still, luck is so powerful a […]

Why a WFH Social Lunch Can Be Your Most Rewarding Work Hour

It’s month five of working from home with no end in sight — this is a drag. Yes, it’s awesome and you feel grateful that you still have a job. But we’re not here to compare suffering; it’s okay to acknowledge that working from home when you don’t want to sucks. I’ve found myself working […]

Creating More Palatable Color Palettes in Redash

I love using Redash to create and automate SQL queries that generate reports. Its dashboard feature lets me automate many of the reports I used to create manually in Numbers and Google Sheets. Redash saves me dozens of hours a year, and it lets me get real-time access to the data I need most. Instead […]

70 Atoms Share What Most Helped Them Transition to Remote Work

Last Wednesday afternoon, we got the email you might have, too. We’d be closing the office and working from home to protect ourselves and our communities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Friday, we had transitioned to an all-remote company. After a quick and smooth transition, I wondered what could we share with […]

How Templates Cured My Gmail Paralysis

I’ve learned an inconvenient truth: avoiding writing a difficult email won’t improve my situation. So why do I fall prey to email paralysis? I spent some time considering the emails that trip me up most, and I found they tend to fall into a few categories. I put off writing emails that: must be absolutely […]

How Toilet Roll Art Taught Me About Levity as a Workplace Superpower

Last year, our Ann Arbor workplace touched a third rail: office toilet politics.

Help Me, Help Me: My Experiment Taking Self-Help Seriously

Here’s the thing about self-help books: They contain wisdom, but something about them makes my eyes roll. As I read, I often agree with their thesis, but my inner soundtrack of “yes, but”s disputes the advice. I am so adept at contradicting the advice of self-help books that I’ve become immune to their teachings. Then […]

Brittany Hunter named Managing Partner in Atomic’s Grand Rapids Office

Brittany Hunter is Atomic Object’s newest managing partner at our Grand Rapids office. She will join Jeff Williams, Mike Marsiglia, and Shawn Crowley on the office’s management and leadership team, which conducts sales, manages staff and client relationships, and develops new business. Hunter’s career at Atomic has spanned eight years and three roles. She joined […]

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By: Elaine Ezekiel

Author: Elaine Ezekiel