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Musings on design, product, psychology, society and business. Often discussing good leadership and (remote) orgs. With a side of randomness. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ Now: Sr. Director, Product Design, Xero Ex: VP Product & Design, Jetpack / WordPress / WooCommerce
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“To use a technical term, it blew my mind,” said Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian…”They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers and ban cars. It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard,” Toderian said. #Montreal

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“In the US Department of Agriculture, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

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Dear artists, comedians, and satirists: None of us can do the work we're doing without y'all helping to keep us sane. Please keep bringing the laughter amidst the pain. I am so grateful to you.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Loved this line: "The most valuable skills often emerge from the intersections between disciplines, not from their cores." There's really much to learn from working with others. I hope more people do approach collaborating in this manner, to make interactions more worthwhile 😄 char.blog/generalist

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It's time to call it. AI is built on a house of cards of intellectual property violations starting with Facebook which is starting to look a lot like a crime scene as held back discovery documents begin to be compelled and unsealed in court. /1

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HP to add 15 minutes delay to ALL support phone calls in UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy with more to come. Another page in capitalist dysfunction, today in customer care. Extract. Extract. Extract. www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/h...

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Please know that if you're a friend or acquaintance of mine and you're publishing on Substack, I would very much like you to leave them and their bigot-and-nazi-supporting-leadership behind. Many people already have. You can do it! Begin the baby steps today.

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Happy Black History Month

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I feel more people need to know these days the story of Agent Garbo: he was a double agent that faked a whole intelligence network providing accurate but late information (among other things) to Germans during WW2. Want a summary? Keep reading in this thread... www.mi5.gov.uk/history/worl...

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Soft skills are very important. Yet, we are trying to remove the word from our vocabulary. I'd invite everyone that "uses" them (which... should be everyone?) to have a read. It's just 3 minutes of your time. intenseminimalism.com/2025/what-ar...

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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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This seems a good move to use hype money to build something that last, long after the hype is dead? www.engadget.com/ai/france-pl...

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Meta's using the bullshit argument that their layoffs are culling the lowest performers from the company. In reality, the bulk of these people are very high performers and these comms are meant to boost investor confidence. You deserve a tech union. ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...

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FFS what now? A Fifth Season?!?! (curious to see how many get the quote) ((also how is this breaking news without any volcano?))

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This rant is part of a larger exploration of our obsession with performance metrics and productivity... For more, read my essay "Against Performance Fetishization"! jointfrontiers.com/against-perf...

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Snarking: yeh that’s called design Not snarking: it’s essential that the goal is identified to know HOW the data is used and what’s important toward the goal. Different goals mean different interfaces with the same data.

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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Several unions in Canada have launched a campaign to expand remote work options in the country: www.acep-cape.ca/en/news/fede...

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A reminder that things have actively gotten worse for trans people under Labour.

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I'd like more companies to grow, find a nice sweet spot, and just keep it running "as is" without further obsession for growth. Got good revenue? Nice steady low growth organically? Stop adding features, keep the people there to refine stuff, and that's it. Change only if big stuff happens.

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I see a lot of tech companies implicated in the current state of the world with two-digits revenue growth results and I can't think anything else but: gross.

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This is a great writing on the idea of “high performance”. Angelos put in writing a lot of things that I’ve been thinking about recently. Have a read! ✨

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I’m still not over the fact that Numa Pompilius gave a name to January and February. Having the first 60 days of the year a void without a name seems way more appropriate.

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“Don’t worry the data about trans people is kept private, see all these laws?” See how they give a s*it?

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