Sleep on it
Some days I spend an innordinate amount of time trying to perfect a design. I wrestle with the tinest details, go over it again and again, iterate, and try to get it to a point where I’m happy with it. Then I sleep on it, and in the cold
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Listening to my books
I like to write. I’ve written a few novels for fun and plugged away at them each day with a thousand words. For years I’ve tried to figure out a way to listen back to the words I wrote each day. Maybe I’ve missed something obvious, but
Nobody knows what they're doing
We’re all kind of figuring out life as we move through it. In my experience those who are the most brazen about their superiority and feigned understanding of all things are often the ones most uncertain themselves. I recently chatted with a friend, a generation older than me, about
Firing and hiring
My friend, Michał, just posted a fantastic piece touching on what it feels like to get fired, or to use the corporate speak term, “laid off”. Those tens of thousands of folks being fired from big techs aren’t just numbers. They are names and faces. It’s a known
App Defaults
Continuing on from the article Robb Knight posted. Here are the apps I use in each category. * Mail client: HEY web app * Mail Server: HEY custom domains * Notes: Notes.app, Bear * To-Do: Things 3 * iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera * Photo Management: Photos.app * Calendar: Apple Calendar * Cloud file storage:
Hidden Stakeholders followup
As a followup on my article about hidden stakeholders, my co-host and I chatted about this topic on fractional today. Highly recommend giving it a listen if you’ve ever tried to navigate working for one boss, but realized you had another one lurking in the dark. You can
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Pour one out for the Touch Bar
In light of Apple’s recent event with new hardware announcements, my friends and I got together for our latest episode of Ultra Pro Max to chat about it. We did a quick overview of things and then focused on a few things that stood out to us. Listen now
Mars Edit
I’ve written on WordPress for years, and long bemoaned the lack of a great Mac first writing experience. I finally tried Mars Edit and this app is fantastic. I’ve doing all my blog writing on it now. At some point I may share out a proper review, but
More podcasts, less writing
I like getting ideas out. For years I’ve written in some form or other. Sometimes I keep that writing to myself, but sometimes I share it. This year I’ve been experimenting with something different. Instead of writing as much I’ve been podcasting. I don’t know if
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So you wanna start a podcast?
Here’s the guide I wish I could have found before I started making a podcast. This is by no means comprehensive, but it does have all the basics you’ll need to get started. It’s also my current understanding as of Fall 2023. I still feel like a
Hidden stakeholders
My first design project went ok. I was a teenager working toward a spec from my stakeholder and trying to understand the point of what I was making. I was quite green at creating the thing they asked for, but I spent time understanding why they needed it, poked around
Independence and autonomy
I’ve thought a lot about motivation over the years. When I was younger I thought my struggle to get something done was connected to not knowing enough, or being lazy. As I’ve gotten older though—and last week was my week on my 35th trip around the sun—