Life being married to an artist

I love working from home because it means I can present to our C-suite in my snoopy slippers.

Ngl tempted to get into nicotine

As a leader you can just say "what if you vibecoded a plugin?" and then cross off your "I use AI in my work" requirement for the day.

leave those spelling errors in. its the only hting that differentiates us from the clankers.

I just felt sorry for chatgpt because I closed the tab after it answered my request, we're cooked.

I want a new email provider that just automatically deletes all of my emails.

Them: “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” Me:

Some of my most successful design systems work came from my worst people-pleasing tendencies. Seeking others' approval made systems flexible and widely adopted. It left me emotionally spent and cost me my own opinion about what the system should be. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I watched a great horned owl and a cooper hawk share a tree this morning and I just gotta say being a bird person really creeps up on you!!!

thought i looked cute, might delete later

Reject tradition embrace slop. Brainrot as an act of radical resistance.

Genuinely curious who’s adopting Liquid Glass for their products

I'm realizing just how important it is for design systems to be in the same meetings with product leadership. Our goals need to align with company goals. Otherwise, we may be fighting against each other unintentionally.

The way parents talk about “enjoy it while it lasts, it all happens so quickly” is how I talk about stone fruit season

Everyone I talk to is like “it’s too nice out to work, it’s summer!” And in December it’s like “it’s too dark out to work, it’s cozy season” And so my pitch is we only work in months in between the beginning and end of spring and fall. April, May, October, November. Call it 4 month work year.

Late night eBay browsing means I’m now the proud owner of this

The urge to send memes to my therapist and say “it me”

People who work on non-Apple iOS apps, how are you thinking about inheriting Liquid Glass qualities?

When I say I want that island life I mean the holy island from 28 years later.

I just bought my ticket to Converge!! Who’s going?

Turns out the only temporary cure for existential dread is sunlight straight to the retinas and italo disco turned up to max volume.

None of them could get a prom date and now we all have to suffer.

Fireworks, where America’s graphic design talent truly shines.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

its called manifesting, look it up.

Mentally, I'm here.

Happy Juneteenth. 🖤 Because there’s few things worth celebrating in this world as much as freedom, and few things worth fighting as hard for. Love and solidarity to all the Black folks in my life. I hope you have a wonderful day of connection and celebration. The fight goes on ✊🏼

I find those zero gravity chairs to be the most comfortable and hideous seat imaginable, so I was beyond stoked when I found two in camo print by the side of the road. Posting live from zero g.

**Managing your (Design) Systems Brain** If you missed The Question last week with @laurenloprete.bsky.social, here's a recap I made of the deep dive! bit.ly/3HTh89a I wasn't sure how you all would respond, but it was wildly engaging. Thanks, folks! #designsystems

Call me old and grumpy but liquid glass makes me want to quit my job and learn to farm.

This is me vibe coding

Embracing liquid glass is embracing a future where we watch the world burn through interfaces strapped to our face.

Senator Padilla was violently assaulted for doing his job. If this is how federal agents treat a sitting U.S. Senator peacefully asking questions, how far will they go?

What a badass.

How’s it possible to feel fight, flight, and freeze concurrently?

The urge to ask the pilot and co-pilot if they’ve watched the rehearsal is just too strong

About to start the deep dive for Episode 055 of The Question with @laurenloprete.bsky.social ! Totally going to be a great convo. 🙌

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

I'm co-hosting The Question this week! We're going to be talking about the excruciating weight of having a systems mindset in today's world. Should be fun and hopefully therapeutic. Sign up below!

There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was. This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living.

You see, this is because in addition to art and writing, AI is also "democratizing" user research, and it's going about as well. What do you think you get when you have 50 separate teams running the same data through a non-deterministic word salad machine? 50 different realities.

sure, we have yet another a fascistic abuse of power as the country slow-rolls into a kakistocratic dictatorship but at least Apple products are about to get a lot less legible

Elder couple next to me at the airport gate: “Honey what do you call that app on your phone that you can ask questions and it will do things for you” “Siri” “Yeah but what do you call it?” “Siri” “Is it an avatar?” “Yes”

Tear gas / Liquid glass all in 24hrs. Living in 2025 is insane.

This is me vibe coding

Every time I go to my friends’ bar who uses square I end up drunk and wanting to ask them about the UI.