Today I wrote a letter to HackerNoon's CEO. Again, another letter to say thanks. I am thankful because I want HackerNoon to continue to support my path journey towards becoming a writer - a better writer. But HackerNoon also helps me with collaboration, and to work. I know that because in many occasions I have seen the real people behind, good workers:
hey supported me, they appeared, they showed up. And they asked me to write. In a way, recursively. I mean, to write personally to them. And we had conversations. By now, looking back I remember three special moments. The first with an engineer, another with a VP of editorial, and now with a writer-developer-engineer I guess.
The reason for this article to be here, has to do with culture. It has to do with that situation when we - from the outside, say a contributor - see collaboration happening. But the motivation - tied to a complication - goes back to that virtuous situation of collaboration where we overlook the good things happening. So here I am, capturing the moment.
Capture the moment
Writing to the employee, noticing the person, being thankful. I used to overlook these things. I do my best to not do that anymore, to not miss. Then, after, writing to the CEO too. And when writing the letter, reviewing it a bit. I mean, not reviewing to show exactly a better text to the CEO. But reviewing as in reflecting so that I can see what is going on.
The letter
It started like this:
"This is a case
When the machine works for you
Because the machine works for me.
So it works for many, this way.
Then you grow, we grow.
And the world grows.
I know it's not only the CEO.
I know it's the team.
Congrats to the team,
For example, here we can see:
Your colleague's great work." And then I moved on, sharing a letter I wrote to his colleague:
From: Marcio Galli <tttt.ttt@gmail.com>
Date: qua., 30 de abr. de 2025 às 12:55
Subject: Hackernoon feedback UI & UX from Marcio
To: <ssss.ssss@hackernoon.com>
Ok.. thanks Sheharyar,
I made this - https://youtu.be/TtzwjNm3uoc?si=QMn0CZECmXI1T1ke&t=167
so if you are busy you can jumps to this point t=167 where I did the
debugging job, and where I was luck and let us say "found the bug".
## The short description as perceived:
When Hackernoon editor detector parses the URL, it expands as an
embed, as in "no matter what" if it finds the YouTube URL that jumps
to a point in time, for example:
https://youtu.be/TtzwjNm3uoc?si=QMn0CZECmXI1T1ke&t=167
Have a good day,
Marcio
https://mgalli.com/And that is it, myself an outsider, writing to a collaborator at HackerNoon as if they were a colleague. And I recorded that video like that too: Marcio's video debugging HackerNoon's Editor. And maybe it was because of that mood - that I was lucky to find the bug. Maybe, in part. Or maybe it is because of everything.
But with that, of course, I was almost doing that, showing the results pointing to a hero. But what the hero does? So I wanted to keep the records too. And made the following screen capture:
And I know, that this CEO knows that. But I wanted this CEO to know again anyway - the things she or he knows - about these things important. Or I wanted to say outloud, to highlight, to mark with the yellow marker that thing important.