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Hello everyone! I haven’t quite figured out what to do with twitter or this or mastodon, but glad to see y’all here.

Am I supposed to be professional or fun on this app

Do people even talk about their jobs and ideas anymore or is it just reaction-internet now?

Truly a strange feeling to have grown up with the internet being your refuge and cherished resource only to have it become utter shit and realize that maybe you don't need it and in fact can't use it the way you used to anymore

Tech people actively say shit like "what's the point of learning about history, only the future matters" and then in the next breath share deeply weird and incorrect interpretations of history.

remarkable how much worse the internet has gotten over the last 10 years. search sucks, websites clogged with intrusive ads, platforms are almost all shit or being torn up on purpose, linkrot, etc

A core tenet of good tech is that we can _reason_ about it. And a common pattern of abusers is that they act inconsistent & unreasonable. That's why it's a giant red flag that AI hype is about systems that we can't even reason about. https://www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/ai-is-unreasonable/

that’s the good shit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

if loosely, design = marketing in a world where the barrier to creating an app or duplicate is so low, design could be the key for some businesses to really create a distinction

You should absolutely block anyone for any reason on any platform at all. You are responsible for curating your social media experience, and you are NOT obligated to be exposed to posts that rub you the wrong way. Block for any reason. Block for NO reason! It’s free to use!

What is the state of the tech hiring market these days? It's definitely cooling in many areas. But by how much? Are there more inbound applications for the same role? If you're a hiring manager, I'd love to hear from you, and will share what others see: https://forms.gle/wVngYHWN4xCsfWH3A

“Smarmy POC” really is a trope we’re leaning into huh

There’s two extremes in tech: 1. absolutely no boundaries and “working” 16 hours a day 2. not shipping at all, for some fucking reason

Really should have yeeted my entire net worth into Nvidia, huh?

I want to be a golden retriever in the next life. Beautiful. Happy. Super dumb.

“They’ll teach twitter’s collapse in business schools” Maybe? I guess so. Probably less informative than you’d think though. You could also show Wile E Coyote cartoons as part of OSHA training but most workers probably weren’t planning to glue firework rockets on their roller skates

I keep hitting up against the realization that I’m always going to be a start-up employee. I have literally no patience for anything but execution.

going through pre-calc makes me proud of myself but also I want to die

ppl ask/tell my bf that being a bodybuilder is vain but I dunno it looks like being a judgemental twat is worse.

So my coworker is one of those math geniuses who got perfect on all the standardized tests and yada yada and super impressive but… I just slugged my way through quadratic formulas in pre-calc so suck on that

Where is the neuroscience community here? Is there one?

So, we thought, what would happen if we... made a content moderation simulator? And let everyone who thinks they know how it works... try out their assumptions.

A lot of tech people seem to want to solve social problems through a purely technical lens. But, unfortunately, to solve social problems like “trust” and “safety,” you need to make judgements that aren’t purely technical. It requires choices about politics and society. There is no avoiding it.

if we all actually told the truth: “Oh hey yeah I didn’t apply for head of design bc corporate America is filled with sociopaths and I’d rather make less to pretend less and go to bed at night peacefully than become one myself”

🥴 people’s hot takes on shopify are so bad amazon and shopify are philosophically different products amazon is a flea market for merchants to race to the bottom in exchange for marketing and volume the other isn’t

It’s rough out there for freelance designers, yah?

Enjoying the reptile content here. Will add my girlfriend Omelette.

Not yet. But it has a shot. I like the invite approach. Like clubhouse that gives it extra interest. But there needs to be more intellectually stimulating engagement. Things across as many topics as possible that make people want to be here. It can’t just be because it’s not Twitter

Some people really do believe shipping fast is incongruent with shipping ‘polished’ UI and I’m legit so exhausted by this I happily recommend them using Material or something so I’m not bothered by the inane argument.

everyone wants there to like, be a big systemic explanation for why elon made twitter into shit. some kind of grand Theory, some version of the dialectic, etc. i'm sorry to say that there is no explanation except that elon's a fucking moron

This is what I'm using to find the Twitter/Mastodon follows that migrated over https://skeet.labnotes.org/

might sound silly, but I get genuinely sad and angry about twitter dying sometimes. like, damn, that was the platform that got me my first job that let me move out of rural Oklahoma. I spent a lot of time building my platform on there. very unfortunate

Lol @ anyone thinking the key to social media is decentralization paradigms, self verification through adding metadata to a personal server, or data portability. It’s the harassment, stupid. People just want to interact with others without assholes.

I think post-irony culture is summarized as “being shitty is authentic” or something like that?

I used twitter at the very beginning to learn bc ppl were creating/posting resources all day and I ate it up, but now every SoMe website is a shitposting acct, which ppl describe as “good vibes” and I dunno man

Hey folks, I’m still on the hunt for my next design leadership role. Looking for remote or in-Seattle opportunities at the Sr. Manager, Director, or VP level leading Design (as well as Research, Content Design, etc.). The best way to support me is to RT or share jobs along these lines. Thank you 🙏

It’s hard to integrate yourself into a new group but then every so often in some unanticipated interaction, you realize it’s going to be okay with them.

I find this “why did you not engage with this standards committee” before building a thing incredibly tiring.

I was afraid after my last start-up closed I wouldn’t be able to come up with new ideas. Nope. Drowning in new ideas, trying to vet them all.

How convinced are you that this will become your new home?

I don’t actually know how to “build a community,” it’s not something I’m naturally very good at. I’ve always been a floater, running in-between social circles, and a loner as a result.

:)) never too long before there’s a new startup idea worth vetting

I went back into IC life and I really do think it was the right decision. I’m not sure if it’s societal conditioning, my skills, or people’s perception of me, but I always fell into this “babysitting” role that people erroneously called “leadership.” I feel so much better now.

Does anyone still like talking about R&D because I’m mentally there all day

Got to be honest, I’m surprised by the lack of design polish given the available network and how unemployed a bunch of us are.

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