Josh

Yeah okay I’ll accept the label ‘radical left,’ but if I’m being honest, I’ll also accept ‘tubular’, ‘bodacious’, and dare I say ‘gnarly’.

Product design tools are just going to progress to a modern version of the software we all really wanted anyway: Flash.

I listened to around 4-5 hours of it. Just one example is that I appreciated when he spoke about dark money in politics, how it works, and how it upends democratic processes.

I want to be inclusive, I really do, but at the same time, if you weren't entranced by the Pure Moods infomercial after midnight on TV in the mid-90s, you're just not my people. Those are the rules.

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Just launched skbd.me. It's free while in beta. Create an email alias, use it for subscriptions, and block emails from getting to your real email. Take back your inbox. I'd love it if you checked it out and gave me your thoughts! How can we make it better for you?

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid

When you live in Amish country, you see the news headline, ‘Toddler dies in farming accident’ at least a couple times a month.

That’s couture. Cloture is a Poison/Ground type Pokémon that was introduced in Generation IX.

We feel before we rationalize. ALWAYS. You can't control it. Don't trust people who react to their feelings first. Trust people who first seek to understand why they initially felt the way they did.

In your hiring process, prioritize evaluating a candidate's ability to project the long-term impact of short-term decision-making. This is the #1 attribute that will determine your company's long-term growth.

One of the most important rules for product leaders is segmented market prioritization. Create a quadrant. X is organization size small to large. Y is operational maturity of your domain low to high. Circle an area. Run like hell from any customer need that doesn't fall into your circle.

Most conflicts in product design are about a misunderstanding of our position over the tension between consistency and clarity and our tension between flexibility and familiarity.

Keep an eye out for Doctor Yellow!

OR when a guy who invited you to chat about a startup idea joins his own call and asks you why you wanted to schedule the meeting and what it was for.

Having my recesses taken away for having selective mutism.

Perfect.

Can you pursue Lu Bu?

I still joke about that. Had to return my son’s French Horn yesterday and was asked why. I said, ‘We prefer the Freedom Horn.’ They didn’t get it.

A screenshot from Season 2 of Severance. Irving is looking down at an unidentifiable corpse of an animal in the river and responds, 'We should eat it.'

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting is wanting. Waiting is wanting. Waiting is wanting. I’m wanting. I’m wanting. I’m wanting. Okay, I feel better.

Describe your in person social skills with a gif

We’ll get there. In the early 2000s, designing and implementing these kind of buttons in flash was so simple. Was quite a wild west of creativity, even making swappable images and skins in photoshop. When CSS first came out and flash sunset and flat reigned, I agree that a lot was lost.

Evil Santa Angry GIF Alt: A Gif of Santa in a cage from the movie Rare Exports

While the ‘Die Hard is a Christmas Movie’ trope makes its rounds, I’m looking for the crowd that has Rare Exports on their list of favorite holiday films.

I studied sociology and deviance in Tokyo. My take is that their culture is so rooted in social collectivism that outside of school/work, their desire to express themselves is pronounced. At work and school, they have to conform. Nights and weekends though, their self-expression is amazing.

My wife and kids are Japanese citizens and we go every year to see family. As a US citizen visiting Tokyo, I realize quickly how embarrassingly lazy and outdated my fashion is every time I go.

What are you lovers of cooking excited to make tomorrow? I’m doing a cranberry beef bourguignon with a side of colcannon.