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Intersection of design and product. Product and design leader. Former journalist but still writing, focused on product design and development and analysis.
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I am not sure Bret Stephens is making a strong case for that.
He's more of a walking argument that most opinion staffers bring little value to journalism and are not journalists. They are just slightly fancier drive-time DJs trying to rile people up to make money.
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I hope consoles never go away. PC gaming remains inscrutable in some ways, even decades in.
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This is also what happens when people don't test their experiences and ask, "is this a good user experience?"
If people define user experience as what happens in Figma, they in fact aren't very focused on user experience.
Product should not be allowing engineering to make decisions like this.
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It's also a list of text items. There is no real data to save here.
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This is probably the most insane lazy load use I have ever seen.
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I do not care for user personas for many reasons, and here we are.
They are so often based on stereotypes and made-up ideas, as is the case here, and rarely are research-backed.
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Personas will lead you astray time and time again.
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Big questions are just how far away are they and do they reasonably think they can actually do this.
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In hindsight, that event should gotten Musk largely canceled.
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I also think that getting hoodwinked by vaporware is also something that Jobs was not often taken in by. And he approached things from, "How can this make things better for humans?" Cook is usually from, "How will this make us money?"
Turns out that a lot of AI doesn't solve human problems.
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My high-level critique of the rot that has set into some parts of Apple is that Tim is not a computer guy, unlike Jobs.
The periodic languishing of hardware products and the lack of desire to build software to prove hardware (iPad, Vision Pro) are all Cook things.
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I do not want to run afoul of the law. I will stay at least 5 miles from any Tesla dealership.
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LinkedIn Premium does not seem like a very useful way to find a job. It may be useful for people to sell services, however.
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This is immensely fair.
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Upper Pennisula is my best guess. It would explain the Kier, PE licenses. Upper Pennisula also has mountains. It's also very cold and snowy much of the year.
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Which one would you start with?
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Hell yeah
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This is by far the best way to break bad news to your kids.
Grandpa dies? Hit up that helium balloon.
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I'd say our current dog is poorly dog socialized. We got her in the fall of 2019 and then COVID hit, so she saw a lot fewer other dogs than we would have hoped for.
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My favorite thing about Mike Pence is that his house colleagues called him Mike Dense.
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I was thinking outside in the yard to do the initial meeting. The puppy is too young to really go for a walk.
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Depends on the dog. She's not the most confident dogs, but she loves dogs she is friends with. I don't think a puppy will cause her to have confidence issues though.
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You magnficant bastard.