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Hire long enough for product designers and trends emerge. Most designers at some point feel compelled to share a converging and diverging diagram, indicating their ability to go broad and narrow when needed. This is a good thing. And I agree with it. But when designers say they have a

This is the core problem with all productivity software: you’re renting someone else’s vision of how work should happen… So I decided to build exactly what I needed: daily planning like Intend, but with integrated future task management, and none of the philosophical baggage (some of which may

The designer-developer convergence is clearer than ever, whether we acknowledge it or not. The question is whether you’ll be part of the first wave or play catch-up later. Rich touches on something I’ve been playing with for a while, and thinking through as well. More and

Setting goals feels like action. It gives you the warm sense of progress without the discomfort of change. You can spend hours calibrating, optimizing, refining your goals. You can build a Notion dashboard. You can make a spreadsheet. You can go on a dopamine-fueled productivity binge and still never

Apple also announced some changes to the iPad for podcasts. I will try those out, but I’m more interested in the Apple Newsroom announcement for AirPods. I have several podcasts. 99% of the time I record from my home office. But if I could use my AirPods for decent

It was fun seeing all these changes come out from Apple. I always enjoy WWDC, and love seeing the hard work of all the people at Apple come through. That doesn’t mean there’s not things that concern me, but today I’m choosing to be an optimist. Apart

I remember iOS 7. I installed it day 1. My phone suffered all summer from bugs. My battery life dropped faster then a brand new iPhone during a cidada brood. But I loved it. It was a drastic shift—moving away from skeumorphic design into something new. As an illustrator

Despite a crazy week on a personal level, I had a lot of fun with the small moments where I was able to get in writing. First, I want to say thank you to everyone who reads these posts. It means so much, and as always any feedback is welcome;

It’s almost WWDC, and time to ask the Cupertino gods for a boon. Though I’m very excited about the rumored diamorphic design, my desires are for something much simpler. Sketching is my life. I can’t imagine a way of working without it. It’s how I think