Dan Mall

Marvel characters, all pictured as Skrulls

Well played, Marvel Unlimited!

Basketball workout: Workout time: 2 hours, 43 minutes, 33 seconds Active calories: 1948 Total calories: 2228 Average heart rate: 160bpm

Played HORRIBLY tonight, but got those steps and calories in, which is what matters.

So, if you’re in the market for unique accessories for your fingers, might I suggest looking in the kitchen accessories section of your favorite department store?

See also: the garden department for winter gloves or tablecloths as ascots 🤦🏽‍♂️

Disgusted, she replied, “Sir, these are napkin rings.”

Defiantly, I muttered something like, “Well, I think they work better on my fingers.”

And I wear them on my fingers often to this day out of pure spite.

A few years ago, I found myself in a small antique store in upstate New York. I found these amazing leather rings and tried them on. So cool!

Not seeing a price tag nearby, I asked an associate about the price of the rings I was wearing.

Thick leather rings on Dan Mall’s fingers

A bunch of people have asked about the thick leather rings I was wearing in the video of my #config2023 talk.

Here’s the story of those rings.

What’s so great about curly hair? It allowed us to evolve bigger brains.

Ahem.

A few people asked about it, so…

Let’s get a pickup game of 🏀 going at Config!

Still getting details sorted, but looks like it’ll be Wednesday at 5:30pm Pacific.

DM me if you’re interested and I can share more details as it develops.

Pack your 🏀 gear!

I’m a big fan of what Ritesh Gupta is doing with Useful School for people of color.

If you wanna hear more about what he's up to, join the free event he’s doing with Mother Design later today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-design-meets-ritesh-gupta-tickets-647107234157

Basketball workout Workout time: 2 hours, 13 minutes, 15 seconds Active calories: 1578 Total calories: 1810 Average heart rate: 163bpm

Solid role player tonight: lots of pick and roll, catch and shoot, and a few surprise moves.

WHAT

I was really regretting it and grumbled all while doing it, but very glad I did it now that I'm done.

(Story of my life.)

Hot dogs, corn on the cob, and Coca-Cola

Grill deep clean done… now time to enjoy the spoils!

Basketball workout Workout time: 2 hours, 19 minutes, 27 seconds Active calories: 1670 Total calories: 1913 Average heart rate: 161bpm

Cookin last night. Paying for it this morning.

Thanks Erica!

Whoa, amazing! Thanks Neil!

Design System University Curriculum & community to support how you design at scale.

I’m literally shaking with nervous excitement as I write this.

I’m over the moon to share Design System University with you today! It’s officially open for enrollment.

https://designsystem.university/

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Jin and Dan sitting next to each other at a table

It was great being able to hang out with design system royalty tonight @jina.social @danmall.bsky.social

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Basketball workout Workout time: 1 hour, 59 minutes, 48 seconds Active calories: 1303 calories Total calories: 1512 calories Average heart rate: 156 bpm

Shot well tonight.

Four poor attempts from Midjourney to draw the FedEx logo

I’ll start worrying about AI when it can arrive at concepts like the FedEx logo on its own.

Here’s the result even with a specific prompt (“a logo with the letters ‘FedEx’ set in the Futura Bold typeface with an arrow in the negative space between the ‘E’ and ‘x’”).

So super duper inspired by @raq.bsky.social’s talk today at Design System University. She shared so much of her great wisdom!

My kingdom for Neapolitan.js.

In less than 24 hours, I’ll be interviewing the amazing @raq.bsky.social about design systems, her career path, doing design at scale, and much more. Make sure you RSVP for what’s sure to be a great conversation! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fireside-chat-with-raquel-breternitz-tickets-635343317967

Basketball workout Workout time: 2 hours, 12 minutes, 6 seconds Active calories: 1508 Total calories: 1736 Average heart rate: 159bpm

Played average last night.

50/50. Obviously 🤣🤣🤣

When I ran an agency, my DMs were from employees who wanted to know how to leave their jobs and start an agency.

Since I shut my agency, my DMs are from owners who are considering shutting theirs.

Reminder: you don’t know what your boss/employees are DMing their network. Plan accordingly.

Basketball workout Workout time: 2 hours, 12 minutes, 28 seconds Active calories: 1546 Total calories: 1774 Average heart rate: 161bpm

I was cookin tonight!

Design System University Curriculum & community to support how you design at scale.

After hundreds of conversations and months of iterating, my new Design System University finally has an updated site today that shares more about how you can level up in design systems! https://designsystem.university/

Cover for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow issue 8

I can’t believe I haven’t read “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” before now.

Incredible story and visuals. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

At this point, I should just have a standing order to read everything Tom King writes.