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Service Design @ Harmonic Design Over-thinker. Enthusiastic collaborator. KC native. Husband & Dad.

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How does one organize a large scale economic strike? Asking for a friend (democracy).

24.01.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How it started/how it's going

18.01.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 5930 πŸ” 1982 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 71

Love this. Adding a RSS patch to my Jean jacket.

11.01.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

19.12.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 10787 πŸ” 2929 πŸ’¬ 178 πŸ“Œ 126

So, the trump healthcare plan was essentially asking the insurance companies to be happy with fewer dolls?

19.12.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I call these "load-bearing justs"

04.08.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

10x existential dread

04.08.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What a fucking clown.

28.07.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Fascinating! softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

24.07.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
Screenshot from season 3 episode 5 of the series The Gilded Age featuring four women gossiping in Newport. Mrs Russel is center right wearing a dress that mirrors the armor of imperial storm troopers from Star Wars. More the original trilogy than the prequels or sequels, in my opinion.

Screenshot from season 3 episode 5 of the series The Gilded Age featuring four women gossiping in Newport. Mrs Russel is center right wearing a dress that mirrors the armor of imperial storm troopers from Star Wars. More the original trilogy than the prequels or sequels, in my opinion.

I mean, you can practically hear the imperial march

22.07.2025 02:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is Mrs Russel dressed like a gilded age storm trooper?

22.07.2025 02:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from season 3 episode 5 of the series The Gilded Age featuring four women gossiping in Newport. Mrs Russel is center right wearing a dress that mirrors the armor of imperial storm troopers from Star Wars. More the original trilogy than the prequels or sequels, in my opinion.

Screenshot from season 3 episode 5 of the series The Gilded Age featuring four women gossiping in Newport. Mrs Russel is center right wearing a dress that mirrors the armor of imperial storm troopers from Star Wars. More the original trilogy than the prequels or sequels, in my opinion.

I mean, you can practically hear the imperial march

22.07.2025 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be nice if congress could remember it is illegal for the president to unilaterally impose tariffs

02.04.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 11080 πŸ” 2317 πŸ’¬ 226 πŸ“Œ 86

Truly SaaS

29.03.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow it just hit me, but it’s now clear that the #vibesession (where economic indicators say we’re doing ok, but people still act/feel like they are in recession) is a result of economic inequity. Basically, while the numbers say all is good, no money is not making its way to the bottom +90%. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

27.02.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

23.02.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 16059 πŸ” 3132 πŸ’¬ 204 πŸ“Œ 196

We know that OKRs are not a replacement for strategy but that's a simplistic view.

If we create a small number of wildly important OKRs, they become a sort of de-facto strategy.

The essence of strategy are the choices we make and these OKRs are a reflection of those choices.

27.01.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Can’t You Just Deal with It? Often, it’s our most obviously necessary tasks that feel the most impossible.

"leaders weren’t much smarter than everyone else; instead, they were willing to make decisions under conditions that others found paralyzing and able to accept the consequences of those decisions, good or bad."

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

06.01.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.

31.12.2024 02:07 πŸ‘ 1583 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 18

No ideology survives first contact with money.

14.12.2024 18:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And that feedback is about to show up in a new, *fun* way you weren’t expecting

03.12.2024 13:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

December 1, and Advent(ure) season!

Anyone here want to participate in #AdventOfSystemSeeing 2024 edition?

There are daily prompts on the AdventOfSystemSeeing hashtag (making it easier to follow or mute).

The idea is to do daily (15-20 minute) exercises in a System Journal (notebook).

01.12.2024 14:29 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Slow down to speed up

03.12.2024 13:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking to get better at design critiques? Read this thread!

28.11.2024 00:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this. Can you say more about how you structure and guide sharing work and receiving feedback?

27.11.2024 15:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re overwhelmed with all that is being reported on right now, take some time to rest but don’t disengage.

Your fear and anger are signals, they easily transform into action if you let them.

So reduce your overwhelm for today, then turn those emotions into action.

26.11.2024 02:05 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Image of quoted text reading β€œSmart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight.

An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. Complexity intoxicates both the creator and audience, drugging us with the illusion of wisdom.

Mastery isn’t making the simple complexβ€”it’s finding the elegant simplicity that cuts through the complexity.”

Image of quoted text reading β€œSmart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight. An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. Complexity intoxicates both the creator and audience, drugging us with the illusion of wisdom. Mastery isn’t making the simple complexβ€”it’s finding the elegant simplicity that cuts through the complexity.”

This tiny thought from Farnam Street really resonared this morning. As service and systemic designers we thrive in complexity, but we strive to find beautifully functional ways to cut through the Gordian Knot of interconnected experiences.

24.11.2024 18:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any chance this is publicβ€¦πŸ˜¬πŸ˜‡

22.11.2024 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Teams often stop at how clearly we can see where we’re going and why. But, being able to create an environment that will get us there together by thinking out loud, making thoughts tangible, and inviting others to adopt and improve β€˜em is what matters. This is not how most orgs naturally work.

22.11.2024 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And you know what comes with great power, right?πŸ•·οΈβ™¦οΈπŸ”·

21.11.2024 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0