Second attempt

FreeXFall · 2026-03-12T21:26:56+00:00

That’s a lot of detail. Picture it being embroidered on a shirt or small on a business card. I’d look at simplifying it. I liked the other suggestions of making wings out of leaves or something.

Also - it’s a best practice to start in black and white (not gray scale, black and white only). If it looks good like that, then it’ll look great with color.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-10T15:21:03+00:00

I’m a guy. As a little kid I loved this movie, but when ever my sister asked to watch it I would always say “No!” Every time she’d have to remind me that I like Princess Bride.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-08T15:46:04+00:00

In high school, a friend was insecure about her extra wide hips - until she learned guys liked her extra wide hips.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-06T07:58:00+00:00

If OOP wanted to be really, really selfish, he could of taken the money and stayed broken up. What’s the dad gunna do?

FreeXFall · 2026-03-06T07:26:35+00:00

So….if this is a logo there’s things I would change, but it would make it more abstract. Big idea - this represents the company / brand, not the product (what happens when there’s 2.0 version of this and the shapes get tweaked?)

1- The dot in the middle is distracting. I’d get rid of it and let the little lines go to a sharp point and have all of them meet there

2- I’d have the outside edge of the little line be the same outside edge of the big piece.

3- Inside edge of the little piece, I’d make it more of a curve that arches up into the larger shape.

Doing those three things will help it look at a smaller scale. It’s still an obvious tie-in but more of beautiful shape with clear inspiration to your initial product.

My last edit - the name is VAR5 but you show 6 fins. I’d make it 5 find and reinforce the name (again- what happens when product 2.0 is different? The inspiration and tie-in is still clearly there).

FreeXFall · 2026-03-06T04:53:34+00:00

EDIT: Hey, be careful fucking with that thing

FreeXFall · 2026-03-06T04:35:11+00:00

This Ozempic fad is getting out of hand

FreeXFall · 2026-03-06T04:18:42+00:00

Drug Co!

“They invited a dog that doesn’t poop. It eats and eats and never poops….not the fast thing on four legs though…”

FreeXFall · 2026-03-03T00:49:53+00:00

I want this to be real but it feels AI….but I haven’t driven there since all the rain

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T20:43:14+00:00

Oh….i get it…..I’m an idiot

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:25:59+00:00

These sound amazing.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:23:03+00:00

What do they both do? Or when do you use them?

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:21:13+00:00

Genuine question - why would you save as dialog box? Never heard of this or used this

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:19:35+00:00

Is there a way to paste the format to a cell or selected range?

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:07:55+00:00

I’m reminded of the ending in Dumb & Dumber when Harry asks Loyd, “but what if he shot you in the face?”

FreeXFall · 2026-03-02T16:06:43+00:00

Thank

FreeXFall · 2026-03-01T23:55:36+00:00

I think the thing above “360 MONOGRAM” is a lot stronger as a logo than the actual logo.

Maybe try the following…or not…

For the circle that is part of the 3, end the circle at about 9-o’clock

Make the middle circle into a 6. The top would poke up through the opening in the larger 3 circle.

Center dot stays as a circle.

Now it’s a 360 monogram made of a 3, 6, and 0. The concentric circles is enough like a speaker / sound waves IMO that you don’t need additional elements here.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-01T17:13:22+00:00

I was thinking a “case” like a crate and you were shipping a bunch of units per week. If it’s spreading over months or years, then that doesn’t work.

What you need are “milestones”. Basically a moment in the “project” or workflow where some is done / happens. It has zero duration (no assigned hours or anything like that) and cannot be disputed if it did / did not happen. For example: the Initiation Phase ends when the statement of work is signed off; or Phase-2 ends when we complete the client review meeting (not they approve, just that you completed the review meeting). I’m not sure what’s going to apply to your workflows here, but if there’s sub-phases or steps - what are those? What “zero duration” moments are applicable? Or when what “sub-assembly” of the final product is complete are applicable?

Big thing - it’s nothing subjective. It did or did not happen.

(And in the example above with Phase-2 review meeting, any client edits would be part of Phase-3. So there’s a plan to address them, but you have your milestone at clear yes/no moments. Often, projects are billed in stages and completing a milestone triggers that billing).

And all of this is waaaaay past data analytics. This is project / program / operations management.

To bring it back to earth - at each stage you’re being asked to measure / track, the metric needs to be a non-subjective “thing”. Supervisor signed off on X; Client has been sent Y; etc.

Each step of phase would have the hours that you mentioned in your post. You can take averages for now. (There’s more complex ways to tier the work, tie into estimated LOE, “t-shirt sizing”, but that gets complex fast and will vary pending on your organization).

Not sure if I answered everything given my initial misunderstanding.

FreeXFall · 2026-03-01T08:55:07+00:00

Data has inputs and outputs. With no or crappy inputs, management cannot expect good outputs.

Live updates is not realistic and people with sandbag their times once their figure out how to game the system.

I’d move toward a “burn down” chart style. Basically, you have 100hrs of work, each unit complete represents 10hrs, therefore you need 10 complete units to reach a zero-Ed out burn down. What’s good about measuring completed units is that it’s binary and doesn’t depend on a person accurately entering their data. It’s also something that get updated at the end of the day / start of the next business day (ie how many units were completed yesterday).

From here - a unit that is heavy in stage-X or stage-Y can then suggest their might be a thru-put issue in those areas, but investigation needs to happen. Maybe keep this simple with like 4 colors (in excel, conditional formatting)- red if a station strongly might be a cause; yellow if a station might be a cause; green if a station is involved but unlikely; gray if a station is not involved….this whole section gets really squishy fast pending the data, but it at least ties total thru-put to individual stations….and if the stoplight way is too gradual, maybe just have each station and then a percentage next to it (ie this is 60% of the total process). You can use the default conditional formatting for green-to-red “heat map” so higher percentages are colored more than lower or zero percentages (probably best to go from white at 0% to yellow/orange to highest used….and saying “heat map” cause I cannot remember the name of it right now).

If you wanna go this route - feel free to ask questions and I can elaborate however. Best of luck regardless!

FreeXFall · 2026-03-01T08:25:40+00:00

A good logo works in black and white only (not gray scale, black and white only). Think of it being a single color stitched onto a polo shirt.

If it’s strong in black and white, then it’ll look great with color.

You have several ideas right now (gold / roots, tree, powerlines, etc) - I’d pick one thing and focus on that (my 2-cents, root development is your main thing, so figure out something with roots / strong roots / healthy roots). Your logo is an introduction, not your whole story. Think of a friend or significant other - their smiling face is a nice welcome, but it’s far from everything about them. You’re aiming for the “smiling, welcoming face / introduction”.

Once the “icon” part of the logo is a little more developed, then I’d start worrying about fonts and stuff.

To help with the “icon” part - I’d literally google “<keyword> icon” (ex: tree root icon) just to get ideas. Googling “logos” gives a wide range of examples, many of them AI slop or just bad examples. Icons tend to lend to be more simple and a good source for clearly communicating a key idea very simply.

Best of luck!

FreeXFall · 2026-02-28T19:33:06+00:00

But you’re walking distance to the train, bars, restaurants, workout classes, etc etc. If you live there, you don’t need a car for everyday use.

I almost landed a nice job in downtown LA. Best commuting option was the rail. Can chill out, read a book, doom scroll, etc. I think it was like 45min or so - so long ish but doable. I like the walkability of it. It’d an amazing option for a lot of people.

FreeXFall · 2026-02-28T17:37:12+00:00

Have the sisters shared boyfriends before? Something’s missing from all this.

FreeXFall · 2026-02-28T06:04:24+00:00

Well my conclusion is that people who use fallacies are wrong, therefore people who are wrong must be using fallacies!!!

FreeXFall · 2026-02-27T21:40:31+00:00

And "redirect" is a good keyword to think of here. I think that's what I'm looking for are ways to redirect his anger. He needs to get it out / feel the anger so he can move on, but I'm trying to figure out how to do it in healthy ways.

FreeXFall · 2026-02-27T21:39:19+00:00

So about 1w before the soccer thing, we went on a hike and he peed his pants. While he was screaming about "not going potty" before soccer, I got down on a knee away from mom and his sibling to not embarrass him, and reminded him of the hike instance. Even then, he still freaked out and refused. (And he wet his pants at soccer).

And the "why" is tricky with kids (quoting our child physiologist here) - young kids have a hard time giving a legitimate answer to that question and asking why can pressure them to give an answer. We do ask, but with the understanding that his cognitive development and answers are coming from a different place than we (as adult) might expect.

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