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This list from Brilliantcrank is, well, brilliant. Reading through I find myself nodding with each. This one especially resonates: Designers are incapable of working well with developers and engineers if they can’t collaborate. Throwing work back and forth over a fence never produces great results. So stop doing it.

One thing I want to add to my previous post is my method for capturing screenshots. Since December 2017 I’ve used Droplr for taking screenshots. I haven’t seen anyone else use this method so I want to share it here. When I’m writing down todos in Things

The only thing that’s worked reliably for me for more than a decade has been simple tools and habits. I add items to a handful of bulleted lists, and pick a few to do that day. After a lot of tweaking and testing of every productivity system around I’

Over the last year and a half I’ve been growing out my hair. As I’ve learned there are a lot of ways to deal with messy longer hair. The simplest is to wear a hat. I’ve tried a number of different hats and don’t like how

I’ve struggled to figure out how to take things I like—such as great articles written by others—and how to save them. When I read something that stands out to me, speaks to me, I often look for a way to do something with that. Over the years

If, like me, you’ve been working in technology for a while, you’ve likely felt that tightening in your chest as ore and more news of layoffs and AI breakthroughs piles up. This feels different than before. I’ve been at this line of work for 17 years now.

I’ve been away from work the last week, so I’ve been catching up on little bits and pieces of Config 2024. The biggest thing to come out of it, and the most impactful to designers, is the AI elements. I haven’t had a chance to test things

At least I have my integrity. The machine may grind on, but I'm glad to have stepped off the treadmill. Joan’s openness on the topic of being involved in tech’s greater whole is so refreshing. To feel hampered, unable to share the words you actually feel,

Nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish somebody had told this to me — is that all of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first couple years that you’