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After a long week staring at a screen, thereās no activity more refreshing than processing firewood. šŖš
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Honored to welcome back to Upperstudy as a Lead Designer after an incredible tour of duty at Vanta as one of their earliest designers. š
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Iād be stoked if I could have @motherfuton as my manager.
Oh wait, I do!
Excited to share that Iāve joined back to Upperstudy as a Lead Product Designer! @upperstudy is creating immense design value for startups and design careers. Pumped for the journey ahead! 
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2022: post clinic #5 / post-Roe America
2018: pre tia clinic / pre end of Roe
Words can't describe *just how badly* women need a new standard of care
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our lead designer started doing this on day one and now we have a year of thoughts, ideas, decisions, and discoveries catalogued in chronological order ā¦ āØš«¶āØ
best team
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If you're the most junior person in a meeting, the easiest way to stand out is to take detailed notes and send them to the group afterwards.
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If your first lie doesnāt do numbers, lie a little bolder the next day.
This guys ghostwriter has no shame.
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43 years ago, today, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston released the world's first spreadsheet, VisiCalc.
That makes today spreadsheet day š¤ š
A few of my favorite moments in the history of a tool that's changed the world and still reigns supremeš
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Low key is going to be a big deal. Itās a game changer for early stage cos and young designers. Truly a win-win with a massive addressable market.
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This was my first week @upperstudy. For those that donāt know, Upperstudy was started by @soopa and @joshpuckett with the goal of mentoring up-and-coming designers via apprenticeships with startups.
1/8 twitter.com/motherfuton/stā¦
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Our first designer who we hired through consistently blows me away with her work, her seamless collaboration with eng & ability to flex into product/research
Kudos to and for building a program that's equally impactful to designers and startups!
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Email culture was superior to Slack culture in almost every way other than the apps feeling impersonal and cold.
We could have just fixed the style sheet but instead we ruined work forever.
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Is it Friday yet? š„µ
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How could I not mention !! I went from knowing nothing about stock options to being familiar enough to talk to others about it!
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How does one bookmark/save a URL in Arc?
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Former VC brings smart financial advice to people who really need it, instead of just the rich tcrn.ch/3eAgIGq by
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proud of for how far theyāve come in making financial wellness more accessible š
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Former VC brings smart financial advice to people who really need it, instead of just the rich tcrn.ch/3eAgIGq by @bayareawriter
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Super #proudinvestor of this team.
Most donāt appreciate how much commitment it usually takes to realize a vision.
and first shared theirs with me while working out of a boba tea shop in 2016. Now we here:
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Seeing the same uptick in investor updates.
My generous view though is that I donāt really want founders spending their time sending me updates when things are going well.
Keep doing whatever youāre doing, just let me know if it stops working in case I can help.
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Something me and all my angel friends have noticed:
Startups stopped sending out consistent investor updates over the past 2-3 years.
Now they're sending out a loooot of rosy updates.
Reminds me of when a long lost friend suddenly hits you up for coffee when they need a loan
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We're hiring our very first Account Executive! š„³ Arrows is heating up & it's time for us to keep growing.
I want to share š 5 reasons why someone you know should join Arrows as our first sales person... (cont'd)
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Excited to launch today.
Rye is based on 2 key insights about ecommerce:
1. If you make it possible to build first-class online shopping experiences without owning/managing inventory a flurry of innovation will follow
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News: Twitch cofounder Justin Kan has launched a new startup, Rye.
Backed by $14M from investors led by a16z crypto, Rye is looking to be the Spotify of online shopping -- in part by bringing web3 and crypto tokens to the ecommerce world.
forbes.com/sites/alexkonr
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A common trait among the best founders I've seen is a seemingly over-the-top focus on converting summer interns to full time hires
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One takeaway from this unnecessarily polarizing conversation is that we need more builder-types and fewer manager-types in design.
Builders believe design and technology can obsolete problems. Managers believe problems exist to be managed.
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As a designer, if I had been expected to share Photoshop files with ācollaboratorsāĀ for unsolicited feedback on pixel-level details, or to host tangents unrelated to my work, I wouldn't have lasted long.
āCollaborationā in Figma is going to leave us with even fewer designers.
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Love to see leaders in our industry discussing the crippling anxiety & stress caused by always-online, presence-aware, multiplayer, collaborative tools for makers
This is *the* problem to solve for Slack, Zoom, Figma, etc. and cannot just be offloaded as a āpeople/org problemā
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As a designer, if I had been expected to share Photoshop files with ācollaboratorsāĀ for unsolicited feedback on pixel-level details, or to host tangents unrelated to my work, I wouldn't have lasted long.
āCollaborationā in Figma is going to leave us with even fewer designers.
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Twitter should build more tools for people to curate their conversations.
You should be able to pin constructive replies. And manually order or highlight interesting sub-threads. And hidden replies should actually be hidden.
The default view of large conversations is a mess.
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A professional tool should encourage, aid, and facilitate a professional workflow. It shouldnāt leave it to people to patch it together themselves. GitHub doesnāt. They quickly integrated the communityās best practices and processes (e.g. git flow came from the community first.)
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Fascinating conversation for anyone interested in building better creative tools and facilitate better collaboration.
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As a designer, if I had been expected to share Photoshop files with ācollaboratorsāĀ for unsolicited feedback on pixel-level details, or to host tangents unrelated to my work, I wouldn't have lasted long.
āCollaborationā in Figma is going to leave us with even fewer designers.
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You understand FigJam better than most!
I feel like "whiteboard" is a limiting description for what it really is, but I guess for now it helps people wrap their head around it more easily.
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In a vacuum, what I'd like to see Figma do now that the initial strategy has been realized (conceptually at least) is rebrand FigJam as Figma. And Figma as Figma Pro. With FigJam as the generative tool for creative conception, and Figma as the synthesitive tool for production.
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This was contentious at Figma even when I worked there; the pull of āgrowing the businessā (mo collab mo money) vs the pull of a quality experience for designers. A tough balance to strike in practice as the Figma org is sort of segmented that way.
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A N N O U N C E M E N T
Lay offs are no fun, but the energy doesn't stop.
If you're hiring for any:
ā Brand Designer
ā Web or Webflow Designer
ā Or a combination of the two (nocode + creative/brand)
I'd would love to chat or get connected with someone
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What if that had happened during a deep work session? You would have lost ~30min and would probably be surprised. Now, imagine that happening several times a day (large org.) It can happen at _any time_. Emotional safety goes out the door. Leads to high background stress.
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I never imagined that would breed an entire generation of designers and developers who #wontfix anything.
This is why founder-types are so refreshing. Oh, you want to actually do something? Take my money!
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At Facebook, in my day, there was a common workflow that befuddled me and many.
Employees were encouraged to ārage shakeā the mobile app when encountering a bug or flaw to report the issue.
And then PMās would quickly tag most opportunities for refinement as #wontfix.
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I canāt imagine being the type of software designer and developer thatās default dismissive of flaws in software.
How can one develop a unique ability to build, be highly-paid to do so, and then simply dismiss problems or opportunities with āpeople need to figure that out.ā
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What git does is to enable collaboration & coordination with very strong reliability (and thus emotional safety; my work won't break or get lost.) It does this by making the "synchronize with others" an explicit step (push & pull) rather than implicit as is the case with Figma.
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I once had the pleasure of sharing dinner and drinks with . He really is the very normal, smart, fun-loving, genuine, and admirable guy portrayed in this ad. Heās great.
We need more Timās, Ohio. Vote!
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Some people think that they have to agree with their politicians 100% of the time. And I ask these people, āAre any of you married?ā
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So cool to see an accomplished founder like set an example of how and when to *not* raise VC.
Most software companies should not be venture-backed. Especially early on.
And thatās not an admonishment of them or VC. Itās just not the one-size-fits-all tool itās used as.
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I've seen so many (otherwise great) companies flame out because they took venture capital and grew unsustainably.
Many of them would be around today if they hadn't taken on VC.
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Doing work that requires deep thinking while being observed and constantly interrupted is some sort of psychological torture.
Imagine as a software engineerāor writerāif everyone would be watching you write your code, in real time, with cursors moving around. šµāš«
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