I said to a colleague that I felt like I’ve been with Avaloq for more than a year now because of the size of my email inbox. On day 1.

But whoever said that email inboxes couldn’t receive mails on the first day, right? A third of it were warm welcome from my fellow designers in Manila and Zürich.

Excitement fills my mind when I think about what I could learn from them and what I, on the other hand, could impart in the process of collaboration.

I hit the “RSVP” button like a madman. And boy, my calendar for the week magically colored themselves.

And all this is a good thing to quickly embed the organization’s nature in my DNA — and this will enable me to fit in their culture.