I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).
A simple way to build trust and empower your team In mid-2020, I could feel the ties to my teams weakening. Some of this (okay, a lot of it) was due to the pandemic lockdown, which reduced the casual conversations with people based here in Austin and… Read more →
I’ve just published my first Raycast script command: Time Converter, which takes a time (local to your machine), one or more locations, and pastes the… Read more →
I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images. That may not sound impressive, but… Read more →
Photo by Jordan Opel on Unsplash Hi, a quick note: I love to hire recent grads, and was on the advisory board of a bootcamp a while back.… Read more →
Two apps that boost my effectiveness as a colleague and leader Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash, modified by Alex As a design leader, I know that how… Read more →
Topics that I tend to write about include: Design & User Experience, Leading Teams, Product Management, Development, Business, History & Food & Drink.
Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.Yonatan Zunger in Tolerance Is Not a Moral Precept
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Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, *InfoWars* has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.The Onion Staff in Here’s Why I Decided to Buy ‘InfoWars’
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“single-threaded leadership,” in which a single person, unencumbered by competing responsibilities, owns a single major initiative and heads up a separable, largely autonomous team to deliver its goals.Colin Bryar and Bill Carr in Working Backwards
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To be abundantly clear, as it stands, OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in OpenAI Is a Bad Business
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Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities. — Andy BenoitNone in Quick Passages
Note: Via Shane Parrish
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MARTI is a provisional framework designed for responsible human-generative AI collaboration, focusing on transparency, accountability, and ethical integrity. It standardizes metadata for AI outputs…
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what’s happening.
Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Learn to design radically adaptive experiences that feel almost self-aware in their response to user needs.
Some very handy utilities in here…
Cosmica typeface from Labor & Wait, published in 2016
Fluid responsive design
Skillfully combine a 12 column grid with text and apply subgrid to images contained within, learn how to structure your code to deal with the nature of implicit and explicit CSS grids.
Handy tool for modern favicon
(This is the third in a series of posts talking about a concept/or tool for how to think about something, distinguished from most of my…
Generate visual storyboards from text.
"In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio…use the glasses to identify several classmates, their addresses, and names of relatives in real time. Perhaps more chilling, Nguyen and Ardayfio are also shown chatting up complete strangers on public transit, pretending as if they know them based on information gleaned from the tech"
There is now data that some of the earlier tests are now known to have a longer shelf life than initially thought.
Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.
Via Greg Storey
via www.brilliantcrank.com/the-dice-015/
There are still some cool pockets on the Internet.
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.
By delivering what people seem to want, has Spotify killed the joy of music discovery?
Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are concise summaries; the main subject articles can be consulted for more detail.
The changes come after the National Association of Realtors reached a landmark legal settlement earlier this year.
TL;DR: Get alignment on the anchor for the value chain. Independently generate value chain components to get as many perspectives as possible. Merge components and align on a final value chain. Then align components relatively along the commoditisation dimension.
a free resource for UI/UX Designers in the games industry. It was built to aid in the discovery of new inspiration, and to provide a fast and efficient way of searching for reference materials.
An interactive map that shows what your chosen city’s climate will look like given current or reduced emissions.
A site from Molly White that shines a spotlight on the political spending of the cryptocurrency industry.
“over 400 easy-to-understand articles, richly illustrated with photos, artworks, and animations, covering how things work”
"over 400 easy-to-understand articles, richly illustrated with photos, artworks, and animations, covering how things work"
A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500. “The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power.”
A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500. "The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power."
How will your city feel in the future?
How will your city feel in the future?
over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years
over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years
“The Wisconsin butter fire, also known as the butter flood, great cheese fire, and great butter fire, was a fire and flood of processed meat and dairy that began on May 3, 1991” How is this not a movie starring a middle-aged actor as a fire chief rediscovering purpose and the importance of protecting what we love..?
This looks like a great tool for setting up spacing and type scales.
Recipes are a critical — and often misunderstood! — layer in the design system ecosystem. First of all, what exactly are recipes? As the name suggests, recipes combine ingredients to create UI experiences that are complex, delicious, nutritious. The design system’s core components are the ingred
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.
This would have saved me considerable frustration over the years…
