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What I've learned so far about design advising and angel investing

Advice on how to get started with startup advising and angel investing, for the motivated designer.

How to give a great product design portfolio presentation

My tips and strategies for delivering a great product design portfolio presentation.

Make a personal changelog

If you’ve ever felt like modern social networks only show a cardboard-cutout version of yourself, it might be time to make your personal changelog.

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What I learned from Staff Design

My takeaways, lessons learned, and next steps after interviewing eight high-level individual contributor product designers.

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My playbook for shipping side projects

Tips and strategies I've learned for shipping side projects.

Becoming a better interviewer

What I've learned from studying interviewing principles and analyzing the meta elements of my favorite interviewers.

2020 in review

Looking back on 2020 and setting goals for the next year.

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Reasons you aren't updating your personal site

Tips and strategies to painlessly manage a personal website.

Tailwind CSS first impressions

My pros and cons for the Tailwind CSS framework after one week.

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Design to save people from themselves

How software can prevent people from making mistakes, causing permanent damage, or bringing about the collapse of democracy.

True respect is the difference

True respect is the difference between a fantastic collaborator and an asshole.

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Writing better self reviews

My tips and strategies for writing effective self reviews.

2020 mid-year review

This year has been breezing by at an uncomfortable pace, so it is helpful to pause for a second and introspect a while.

Quality software

This post aims to outline the characteristics of software that we believe determine its fundamental quality.

Just-for-me authentication

How adding just-for-me authentication cascaded into new ideas and possibilities for play.

Using cookies to authenticate Next.js + Apollo GraphQL requests

In the spirit of over-complicating the hell out of my personal website, I spent time this weekend trying to solve one very small and seemingly-simple problem: can I make my website know when I am viewing it?

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Incrementally correct personal websites

It's time to change the way I think about building and maintaining my personal website.

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Automating the boring parts of product design

Building Figma plugins to automate the boring parts of product design.

The meta skills of product design

Exploring the meta skills that product designers can use to learn faster, work on more impactful products, or collaborate with more interesting people.