Company
Date Published
Author
Bryan Helmig
Word count
1358
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Conspiracy Santa`, a team-based gift-giving tradition, was created as an alternative to Secret Santa due to the challenges of coordinating remote teams. The idea involves having the entire team collaborate on selecting a gift for one teammate through email threads, with everyone sharing ideas and ultimately voting on a final gift. This approach fosters collaboration, insight into teammates' interests, and rewarding experiences. While there were some initial issues, such as complicated threads and non-physical gifts, the experiment was deemed successful and is being repeated this year with tweaks to improve its execution. The Conspiracy Santa process involves setting a spending limit, collecting participant information, using email threads to coordinate, throwing out facts about the target person, narrowing down gift ideas through voting, and finally sharing the results with the recipient.