CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Gas hitting $3.50/L will be the exact moment my childhood nostalgia meets my adult financial ruin. I ain’t giving you no tree fiddy, OPEC!

Slow down, ask tough questions, and pause until the direction is clearer. "That is the behaviour that separates a senior PM from a competent ticket-runner, and it is almost never rewarded in real time." https://pmdepot.org/guides/is-that-a-strategy-or-a-wish-list.html

I’ve felt this a few times before: learning word processors in the late ’80s, POV-Ray in the ’90s, HTML/CSS in the 2000s. And now again with Claude Code. It's that same spark of unlocking a new frontier in computer-aided creation. It’s hard not to get hooked.

The Ollee Watch is a great example of one of my favorite ideas from systems thinking: acknowledge what exists, and build something that complements it. https://www.olleewatch.com

Every time a UX designer realizes they’re actually in the business of designing for interacting with information systems, an angel gets its wings.

In 2022, I was in the top 1% of Pocket readers. This was a feat made possible by the app's free text-to-speech (TTS) feature. Pocket was the perfect companion to my podcast player.

In 2022, I was in the top 1% of Pocket readers. This was a feat made possible by the app's free text-to-speech (TTS) feature. Pocket was the perfect companion to my podcast player.

Some of my kids' water bottles are so complicated to reassemble that if you're not careful, you'd solve the Lament Configuration and Cenobites would emerge from the walls with "such delights to show you."

To paraphrase the most oblivious excuse I’ve ever heard for not being allowed to talk to customers: “You can’t talk to them because renewals are coming up and they’re probably upset because we’ve been ignoring them all year!”

AI lets us indulge in our every impulse, without the checks of shared alignment and understanding. That's not speed. That's drift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0f8uAfc8w

"That is how products become cluttered. Not because teams intentionally choose it, but because the threshold for adding something falls below the threshold for living with it." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-feature-should-earn-its-place-karri-saarinen-nybhc

Accessibility knowledge migrates strangely. Designers go from contrast and color into web standards. And suddenly devs realize they need to level up too. Sometimes it's reversed. Either way, uneven knowledge leads to tedious handoffs. That's what makes accessibility hard.