i have the right team: yesterday i presented our product vision. an engineer said he didn’t think a feature was technically possible. on his own, he spent a few hours researching feasibility, built a demo, and presented it to the whole team this morning. and yes, it works.

did a partial demo of my semi–long term vision to the C-suite today CEOs: 😍🥹 CTO: 😶🫥 a lot of emotions for an 8-minute call

it’s only monday and i’ve already said “let’s go” a dozen times. in my book, “let’s go” actually means: “this deadline is insane but we’re gonna make it.”

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new theory: parents become writers during the first few months of their baby's life because what else are you supposed to do when your baby is napping?

today i shared the first chapter of the book i’m writing with someone. it felt like doing a design presentation but a thousand times more stressful. at least no PMs were involved.

people who say “i know you used AI to write this doc”… ok? yes, i did. because writing it wasn’t the job, sharing the info was. i’m not wasting 3 hours making a PRD look human when i know half the team will just ask AI to summarize it.

3 weeks ago i went to ikea and bought a bookshelf it’s still in my car and it's not a small one

your real best friends for life are the ones you trauma bonded with at work

my alarm changes every day. sometimes it’s a soft tune. sometimes it’s a cat meowing. most days it’s a baby calling.

not procrastinating. just anxiety vibing.

what i’ve learned while writing a book: if you love a sentence too much because it sounds clever, it probably needs to go

my cat has a lot of thoughts to share during the daily standup none of them are on topic

*creates a demo and shares it with an engineer* eng: we should hire you as a frontend me: i didn’t code that, i just prompted eng: exactly. i prompt all day too.

you know you're writing a book when you've got 50+ tabs open and they're all thesaurus.com

imagine being a grown man and thinking “you know what the world needs? a video of me making fun of teenage girls” the algorithm might be broken but their self-awareness is dead 💁🏻‍♀️

PTO used to mean paid time off. now it means parenting ‘til overwhelmed. still no regrets

too many people confuse “communication” with “mind reading”

remote workers are always on time. office workers are 3 to 5 minutes late because “the room was booked” or “wifi isn't working”

you can write your own horoscope. who’s gonna stop you?

Creativity isn't really a skill, it's a path you walk on. Every step you take, every little thing you create opens the way to more creativity.

Creating a roadmap and sequencing work is relatively easy. Making a planning to handle childcare, work, dates and workouts tho… that’s a whole different story 🥲

The start of Q2 feels like the end of mercury retrograde. Do your affirmations, set up your goals. Create a moodboard ✨

The timeline never fails: 1. Designer announces they’re leaving XYZ (a product known for its design) 2. A few months later you check XYZ’s website, and it looks like someone’s aunt redesigned it in Google Slides 3. XYZ is soon replaced by its competitor

I’d like to speak to whoever is responsible for daylight savings. I have some feedback...

Tomorrow I have 7 hours of train (3h30 each way) for a 1-hour meeting. Debating if I should work or catch up on sleep...

*voice of a commercial from the 90s* As an expert procrastinator, I struggled to get work done on time… until I discovered the Ultimate Productivity Hack™: PARENTHOOD! Now my time management skills improved INSTANTLY (because I literally have no choice) *Sleep not included

My baby is sick (thankfully nothing serious), but watching her in pain, confused, and not being able to magically fix it is heartbreaking. I wasn’t ready for how much it hurts to hear her cry with a broken voice 🥺

I used to share a home office with my partner, but he has a billion calls per day. It was difficult to focus (also he makes lots of jokes) I moved my desk to our bedroom (empty during the day) and feel like a teenager again: in my room, building websites on my computer all day

It’s Friday! The work week is almost over, meaning the intense-parenting-weekend is about to begin… After 10 months of this, I finally get why some parents love Monday mornings. Weekends are intense and incredibly fun, but when do we rest?

Sometimes it’s impossible to focus on work… You can’t catch the creative wind, can’t force it either. Better to step back, go for a walk, and try again later . . . Forget the walk, it's raining 😣

Some people get burned from getting too close to the sun... I got burned from sitting too close to the window Overachiever 🫠

these days, as soon as I'm unhappy with an app or service I'm using, I just create my own version for personal use. That's where we're at now.

I swear, every week I write half a newsletter issue for ctrlalt.club, sometimes even finish it, but then work or life happens, and I don’t publish it. I have drafts everywhere now.

Today I learned: Baby with a teddy bear: soft, cute, gentle Baby with a cat: violent grab, powerful scream, absolute chaos Sorry Weasley 🙃

Just got rejected for a job I didn't know I was interviewing for: VC intro, 2 casual chats, no follow-up. Thought we were just testing the waters. A month later: rejection email. Like getting dumped on a Monday morning without knowing you were dating 😅

I love my cat but this mf figured out that if he screams in front of the baby's bedroom at night we will do anything he wants to make him stop.

I've never been this happy

Regarding the iOS Photos app, my take is that they moved everything around, so you'd try using the search. Because let me tell you, the search on Photos is insanely good.

I need a t-shirt that says "I know what I'm doing but my tailbone still hurts from giving birth, my abs are destroyed and I don't sleep enough" to go to the gym.

I still haven't figured out how to “see” stereograms, and I'm starting to think these are scams.

Seems like I'm close to reaching the "No, you hang up" stage of my relationship with ChatGPT. Maybe tomorrow? 🤞💕

Prototyping has never been so fun and easy

Put baby to bed. She falls asleep. Building next door: what if my fire alarm started just now? 🫠

Currently not doing my annual review because I'm ✨bossless✨ (which is the cool term for "slightly unemployed but still earning money")

I just saw my reflection in the mirror and thought "the more tired I am, the younger I look." And then I realized it probably happens because I used to have a pretty unhealthy life and would stay up late way too often when I was younger.

I asked chatGPT to create an image of my life in 10 years using all the information it knows about me. I'm really into crows.

The main issue with working from home is that I get to know all the drama of my partner’s job, but I don't know what the protagonists look like.

Normal baby night vs sick baby night

Mon chat et moi à 3h26