Shashank Nizam

This was surprising.

But I have to admit, I...

Learn to respect him for holding his boundaries and showing the team why vacations are important to begin with.

And in the end, it allowed me to rethink my own paradigm.

Work is all about work, work, work, work, work, which I'm sure a lot of people listening, let's say from Singapore or New York or even London would relate to.

Whereas Marco showed us this can be holistic.

And I was not in a position, business-wise, personally, to take a whole year off at that time.

But that was the light bulb moment.

hey, even if we can't take one year off every seven years, what if we take a week off every seven weeks?

And that's where it struck, huh, okay, let's do this.

If we have these short bursts of vacation throughout the year, you're always recharged and happy at work.

It's like a rocket trying to leave the Earth's atmosphere with those little boosters at different stages rather than just trying to burn one big piece of rocket.

Every seven weeks was a bit too often for a small team.

Like people were just in and out, in and out.

And they were taking weeks off back to back from each other.

And that did not allow for transitions to happen within the team.

And that was a bigger challenge because we were not a very large company.

There were not a lot of systems and processes.

A lot of things were based off on our daily stand-up call, which we did every morning for 30 minutes.

So imagine if, Adam, you are my manager and you're off one week and you come back and I'm off that week.