Folks I think we fucked up going all in on Slack, let’s do anything else. I can’t handle the 80+ channels that ALL need my attention. There’s no way this is productive.

In the next year I look forward to thought leaders posting “I write all my code by hand” like they’re a hipster buying vinyl

Tulsa is pretty cool

Returning to Headspace after years, wow it’s pretty awful now. Incredibly difficult to just find a quick guided meditation. What’s a good meditation app these days?

Software orgs embracing AI tools have demonstrated something I've been saying for a very long time: you can't iterate from bad software to good software. It's *physically* possible, but the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining the product, managers demand more new feature releases.

Moved my website to Cloudflare from Squarespace and bought a cheaper domain, saving myself $249 a year. Excited to code out my own site in Astro and create some really fun interactions!

My nervous system be like “what if that slack notification means DOOM”

So excited to continue not using Discord

God damn the Patriots mascot is creep

As a product designer this year is already wild, I can’t imagine what my role will look like by the end of the year. I’m mostly in code now. My Figma files are pretty empty, just sketching concepts or using Make to prototype for stakeholder alignment.

I feel so seen by Alison Rand's Radical Humanity approach, emphasizing empathy and respect rather than blunt honesty

I’ve never been more hopeful and optimistic than the moment I subscribe to a newsletter that I’m never going to read

I just bought a truck! ('98 Toyota Tacoma)

good news, my therapist said I'm cured and to never contact her again

I was very skeptical but the OURA ring has really helped me adjust my nighttime routine to get better sleep (and generally better understand my sleep patterns)

Does iOS 26 act up for anyone else? On an iPhone 16 it’s jittery and sluggish, games drop frame rate, and apps take forever to open sometimes.

I look at a lot of food menu pictures for work and I'm realizing how weird (and kinda gross?) hands in food pictures can be. They're always aggressively squeezing the food...like why

The only war zone in Portland is the Trader Joe’s parking lot

Oh god. I drank the liquid glass. I thought it was just water. Who do I call. My mouth tastes like pixels and I've adopted a new design system. Am I dying

Pumpkin carving night 🎃

the moment AWS started impacting Figma

Baby blanket for my friend's newborn finished 🥰 (they look so cute wrapped in it!)

Sorry the design is taking so long, but I think I solved ALL the user problems this time guys

You want me to work a 996? Oh you mean 9 minutes of work over 9 slack threads while eating 6 cookies

it’s only recently come to my attention that people really hate on flip flops. Growing up in FL everyone owned like 3 or 4 pairs 😅

but like antifa isn’t an organization ??? It just stand for antifascists lol

Not a great week for the Gaylor subreddit 🫢

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

AUGUST 16, 2025

I submitted my first PR at work today! 🥰

Gonna rewatch Silicon Valley to feel something

LEGO build day 🥰

Exploring SF today + catching up with a friend

It makes such a difference to work with folks that bring joy and fun into the work

I don’t know why, but there’s something that feels right about using an emoji 3x in a row 😍😍😍

Hiiiiii I’m back! It was really amazing for my brain to step away from social media for a bit. One thing I realized is how much I value the interactions I have on here. I learn so much from yall and find it really inspiring. Missed yall 🫶

We took a mini vacation to Ilwaco, WA where its perpetually foggy, rainy, and 50 F

After 7 months of job searching, last week I started at Owner.com as a Senior Product Designer. Thank you so much to everyone who supported me whether it was sharing job postings, listening to my insane interview stories, or reviewing my presentations. Much love to all my design folks <3

Taking a few weeks off from social media, y'all be good while I'm gone 💜

I think Max should do a hard left become HBO Max WB Discovery Nat Geo and just really lean into the chaos

It would be really cool if the gCal favicon updated with the current date

If you're feeling like reality is completely distorted lately, I highly recommend the Castle by Franz Kafka. It's absurdist story about a man named K unable to contact his employee feels wildly relevant.

I’ve been obsessed with these chill watch repair videos, it makes me want to make a version of them but it’s designing

I know I'm tired when I join a meeting and spend almost 5 mins troubleshooting my audio not working to realize my computer was muted and my headphones were fine the whole time lololol

We’ve helped so many companies grow since our studio started out, but we want to put our skills and experience to a different, more effective use. It feels like a really important moment to actually fight back and it also feels like an important moment to focus on skilling people up to do that.

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Bring back mono task tools 👏

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