Kobo Is Live!! 🎉

We made it! The integration has just gone live! 🙌🏾

As I write this, the integration has been available for a few hours and thousands of people have successfully connected their accounts. So far, no bugs and zero support tickets! 🙏🏾

Though I’m about to send out push notifications and a product update email so there are going to be a lot more eyeballs on this shortly… 👀

This has to be one of my greatest career accomplishments to date. With such a small team, I’ve navigated figuring out the terms of the partnership, implementing the code on StoryGraph’s side so that the integration actually works, collaborating on the comms and marketing piece, and more! 🥹

It’s amazing what Rob, Abbie, and I continue to achieve together. ✨

I remember thinking: I’m going to write so much about this integration in the next issue, but now I’m here I don’t even know what to say… 😪

Maybe there’s nothing much to say except that we hope you love it and that, as per the mission of the company, it enhances your reading life. ✨

“Crazy” Golf

One of my favourite things about working with Rob is learning which terms and phrases I’ve been using all of my life are uniquely British ones! 😆

It makes me wonder how many times I’ve written a phrase in here that most of y’all have never heard of before! 😆

(Also, yes, this serves as a reminder that I must make time to celebrate the Kobo launch this week before I get stuck back into my next stream of work!)

New Hobbies

Because I don’t have anything at all going on in my life, I don’t have a business to run, or a range of other things I get up to in my spare time… I have decided to take on two new hobbies and I’d like to share them both with you all today. Please be seated. 😌

A New Dance Style…

I love getting better at things and something I’m always trying to work on is my dancing. I want to execute better and I’ve repeatedly been told that I need to up my technical training. I started doing that slowly a couple years ago but this year, after some specific feedback, I’m going to the final boss of technique training: Ballet! 🩰

I don’t actively enjoy the ballet classes the way I do other dance classes. But what I do enjoy is imagining how much better I’ll be executing routines at the end of the year because of my improved lines, flexibility, mobility, and posture. 🙏🏾

And probably the better I get at ballet the more I’ll enjoy it, because that’s the way it often works out. 😁

A New Language…

Remember when I asked for language learning app recommendations because I was struggling to learn European Portuguese?

Well, I’m not going to leave Duolingo because of my huge streak and I still had months left on my Pimsleur subscription, so I decided that maybe it wasn’t my time to learn Portuguese and I should choose something that I could learn more easily via the two apps I already pay for.

Well, I was in Rome last year and loved it, and I’ve got trips planned to Italy in August and September, I’ve got a lot of Italian people around me, including my tennis coach… Italian was looking like a great option. And when I completed a few lessons and realised how similar it was to French, I was sold!

Molto bene! 👌🏾

My tennis coach had a great tip for me: Find a book that teaches French people (I suggested ‘children’) Italian. This way I’d pick up the Italian patterns more easily and probably inadvertently improve my French as well. If you have any great recs here, please let me know!

What I’m Reading

I remember picking up Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian as a teenager in my high school library, struggling to get into it, and just giving up on it…(Which is super rare for me, given I haven’t actively DNF’d a book as an adult… 👀)

Well, I picked it up in a mystery book swap a few months ago so I’m giving it another try.

Have a great week,

Nadia