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Making a note of June 23, 2026 — which is when I can pre-order this. I don't think there is another upcoming book I am as excited to read.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does 1-1 coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
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Ninety minutes after taking some painkillers I caught myself thinking "the knee pain has almost gone — if you'd waited you could have skipped the painkillers".
Listening to my brain produce bullshit like this is sobering :-)
Retrospective done. Day done. Week done. Done.
Time to roast a shit load of veggies of tofu for dinner and play dumb ass video games.
Hoping y'all have a good weekend.
Retrospective done. Day done. Week done. Done.
Off to see the re-release of Akira at the cinema!
Hope y'all have a most excellent weekend ❤️
Two weeks until May's Balanced Team in the Ether! Our regular free online session on effective cross-disciplinary work! We've covered everything from making space for bottom-up change to teasing out curiosity! Sound fun? Tickets & info 👇🏻
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-team-in-the-ether-24-tickets-1985506791261
Bank Holiday Monday. Coffee.
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@rjbs the upsells in keynote, numbers, etc. to Apple Creator Studio are also… pretty ungood and don't feel very Apple-ish to me.
Two weeks until the next #BalancedTeam in the Ether — a regular free online discussion on effective cross-disciplinary work!
Previously we've covered everything from framework fatigue to making room for play!
Sound fun? Tickets & info > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-team-in-the-ether-23-tickets-1981305070802
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@cstross@wandering.shop @tommorris@mastodon.social @pndc@social.treehouse.systems Tosh. LaserDisc is the future.
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@dahukanna Oh me too, me too! Having the "discard" column is my vague attempt to move some stuff out of the compost pile so it's easier to find things I might finish :)
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- If I say "product team" to you, what kind of roles does that include?
- Not enough ux resources/people.
- Distributed teams are not the solution to bad colocated environments.
- When you say the "timeline doesn't allow" usability testing, what I hear is "We have decided not to care about shipping stuff that doesn’t work"
- It’s better to have the structure of the product teams reflect the strategy deployment around the product. (2/3)
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- Test your actual users. Use your company's channels to market.
- "Why are people avoiding hiring more researchers?"" is a good research question.
- Asking "How do I get people to use our design system?" is a pretty solid signal for not actually having a design system.
What didn't you write about? :-) (3/3)
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@rjbs It's how they did it too.
Pay extra $$ for "pro" functionality — sure. That is _very_ Apple :-)
A nag-ware user experience that's continually trying to trick you into subscribing for stuff, automatic “upgrades" on i[Pad]OS that fundamentally change the commercial relationship with an app, etc. — not so much.
I've been happily paying the Apple $$$ since the 90s for the hardware and a the UX. They seem to be actively forgetting about the latter in the last year or so… :/
Coffee.
Ah yes. The day before a long weekend is an absolutely _ideal_ time for the toilet to break.
Sigh.