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I’m not on most social media, so this is a good way for me to keep track of and share some of my favorite links that made me think

8/24

  • We had a great weekend of fly fishing, but toward the end we realized the fish were mostly biting on a caddis variation that were smaller than what I brought with me. Since I plan on fishing the same creek next weekend I came home and started tying a pattern to better match the hatch. It got me to thinking how similar good product design is to fly fishing since you’re always iterating - clocking what works and what doesn’t, thoughtfully changing tactics, dialing in visual patterns, making sure you’re casting into the right section of water, etc. - and lo and behold someone already made a solid writeup of what I’d have to say about it.

  • Saw LA LOM in concert and they were incredible - if they’re passing through your city definitely grab a couple tickets and prepare to have an excellent time dancing.

  • I’ve been taking Codecademy’s “Full Stack Engineer” course to get a better handle on all of the things that make designs come to life. I put at least an hour in every single day for the last 30 days and I’m still only 9% through - it’s fairly intensive and I genuinely feel like I’m learning heaps. Highly recommend.

6/24

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  • I recently started working with an organization aligned with public health, and as part of my orientation & discovery into the problem space I watched “The Invisible Shield”, an excellent four-part series on PBS

4/24

  • It’s a little groovy but I enjoyed this podcast episode on the position we can get in when we create stories about “how things are” - often based on narrow or limited information used to form those narratives. They also mention the book “The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success” which I’m going to read immediately.

  • I fell asleep listening a playlist inspired by Mary Lattimore’s “Arrivederci” and was jolted awake at 4 am by “Green Glass” by Josiah Steinbrick which I’ve since fallen in love with - it’s off of an album that is my new go-to for reading at night with the windows open.

3/24

  • My friend Liz and I went to the Banff Film Festival screening last week and I definitely cried at “Earthside”, a beautiful movie about living life at full volume

  • This is my favorite piece of art at the Denver Art Museum

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  • In a meeting with a colleague today, I talked about how High Country News is consistently my favorite reading material and 5 minutes later we had both signed up for a print subscription ✨

7/22

  • This podcast about coaching / self-coaching was magnificent. I just got back from a week of in-person, immersive dialog with other colleagues. That, plus the podcast, inspired me to spend some time journaling and reflecting on how I can grow based on what I felt from those interactions.

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  • d.MBA: Guides - A helpful collection of business concepts geared toward leveling up design professionals (I really liked the one about economics)

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  • Experience Design; 4 Ways to Make Your Next Event Unforgettable. I miss hosting! There’s the work part of experience design that I like, but I also miss building a playlist, setting a table, arranging lighting, playing games and cooking a meal for friends and family.

  • Sort of related to that podcast: writing acrostics for guests at a dinner party

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02/20

  • Behavioral Design 2020 and Beyond

  • The Side Effects of an Unfinished Internet - Neil Patil

  • Erika Hall continues to be awesome. Her quote: “Teach people those skills early in life, and start valuing conversation—particularly conversations where we feel the stakes are high, or we’re forced to talk about what we don’t know. What I’ve found in all my years of consulting is that if you go to any organization, everyone is terrified. They’re terrified of their colleagues, of the people who report to them, of the people above them. They’re terrified of looking like they don’t know what they’re doing. And it’s all because nobody has been taught to talk to people, or negotiate with people—despite the fact that these things are really learnable.”

  • If you consider yourself a designer but you're not routinely considering the architecture of the thing you’re designing, are you performing design or decoration?

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