3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

Brands quit doing your version of Spotify Wrapped and come up with an original idea challenge

My response to anything over the next two weeks

"Think not of the books you've bought as a "to be read" pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." - Luc van Donkersgoed

let's go girls we're dissociating Chandrilan style

"I think the most radical act today is to just make something. Especially if you are not good at it or if it’s a bit of a struggle. Draw if you’re not good at it. Play the piano even though you’re not great. Make something just for the fun of being in this world, touching it, being in it […]

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There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation

We should bring back scrolls, books are great but scrolls would be cool

In London, hate will never win.

I used to mock my mother for this and now it me.

For all the setbacks for the world’s women in 2025, the leaders and vanguards on the 2025 Forbes Power Women list stood as examples of resilience in turbulent times.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

"Today, OpenAI is co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, alongside Anthropic and Block, and with the support of Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare" openai.com/index/agenti...

Heart melts! ⛸️

TBF sounds a lot like toddler life.

ICYMI: Remastered classic article: One of the greatest challenges of becoming a CEO is having to manage everything that’s not your primary area of expertise. Which is almost everything. Also part of the fun. Don’t only “delegate” though; that’s not good enough.

I had a Bonnie Tyler GPS, but it was awful. Just kept telling me to turn around, and every now and then it fell apart.

Working on a new zine concept. Haven't decided if I want to go flat design or highly textured, but here's where I go to so far on the cover.

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Managers: the best move when someone brings you a problem isn’t to jump in and fix it. Ask this instead: “What would you like to do about it, and how can I best support you?” It builds ownership, cuts dependency, and keeps you out of the weeds. Read more: www.modernleader.is/p/the-questi...

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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

A common product trap is confusing activity with progress. Progress is hitting specific goals, like faster load times, growing usage or revenue. Activity is work that feels productive like writing code or PRDs but doesn't guarantee results. It’s important not to mistake output for outcomes.

The most important transition for a manager is learning to shift from directing (telling people what to do) to coaching (helping people find the answer for themselves). Without this switch a manager can never fully unlock the potential of their team and also becomes a bottleneck for decision making

Great point! Need to add more analog hipster shit back into my life.

I don’t know what the other side of this looks like, but when we get there, know that we won’t be getting back to what you once perceived as normal. Things will have to be dismantled and reimagined.

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

They make it so so so awkward in England not to drink. 😬

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

The engineer-manager pendulum model no longer accurately reflects how engineering leadership operates. Most of us aren’t just an IC or a manager. Technology has forced us to live somewhere in the middle. I wrote about what this actually looks like now: www.modernleader.is/p/pendulum-r...

Amid headline after headline about the possibility of a bubble, Tech Policy Press contributing editor @ambersinha07.bsky.social considers the broad assumptions that underlie the astronomical investments in AI and the outcomes promised to entice them.

I'm sorry, what!?

A week overdue, but here's my photos of our Paris weekend away. 🥐

I don't tend to enjoy reality TV, especially celebrity versions — but I must say Celebrity Traitors has been a fun watch (on episode 6)!

I was talking with a friend of mine today about that outlook one needs to have in order to deeply change systems. It's a squishy sort of emotion that we can't name or label cleanly, but she inspired me to write down my best attempt at describing it. What do you think? hazelweakly.me/blog/to-be-a...

You might not see it, but your creativity inspires people. Keep making, someone’s watching and learning from you. #monday #motivation

AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/

Random acts of joy!

Croissants 4 ways and other warm up drawings. Considering building my own art school curriculum to intentionally build drawing and observation skills.

Three decades of global climate action have slowed the rise of planet-warming pollution, but it is far from enough. The world is on track for catastrophic warming and, in an alarming twist, the worst impacts of the climate crisis are unfolding decades earlier than scientists predicted.

OH: We gaze into the abyss. The abyss gazes back. It refuses to compile

Going to Art Galleries Can Improve Wellbeing. “Enjoying original works of art in a gallery can relieve stress, reduce the risk of heart disease and boost your immune system, according to the first study of its kind.” [theguardian.com]

TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) A new data format built specifically for LLMs. It’s like JSON, but uses 50% fewer tokens while keeping data human-readable and structured. Perfect for optimizing LLM prompts & API efficiency.

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

I've missed this! Doing a board game date night. 🎲

“I wish we wouldn’t tell people to follow their passion. I wish we’d tell them to follow their curiosity.” — Astrid Bin

Made a fictitious punk poster from a few Unsplashed photos and a free punk design pack for Affinity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Yb...

There are more of us than there are of them.