I’m the human between the loops helping leaders make the right things. Brand, Product, Design, Engineering, Science. frog alum. Austin.
Austin, TX
Joined January 2007
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Talked with a 40-person design firm in Prague. AI in everything, but still obsessed with human craft, about 30% fewer people for the same output. Low ego, happy doing pieces of a product.
Design firms are driving through fog. Where are we headed, how do we stay useful, and what are you betting on?
Remember when we all used to try to keep up with, or even outrun, the pace of tech? It led to exhaustion, despair and burnout. Huge price to pay.
Now that it's utterly impossible, we can just relish the beauty of each day, and get good at being human again.
Happy Friday all
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Fulham faithful come join us at @BurnetGoTo for a BIG match v Hull City this Saturday at 9am. Great conversation, 🍺, and ☕️. Bring your curious friends & family! You Whites. 🖤🤍
My coach told me this week LinkedIn posts aren't for going viral.
They're for the last ten people who just connected. So they already know how you think before you get on a call.
Persona AI is raising $142M to put welding robots in shipyards. That's the kind of robotics bet I want to see more of.
On a robotics scaleup intro yesterday in SF.
They want the machine to feel like furniture: warm when you need it and invisible when you don't.
Not cute or dystopian. Just useful enough to disappear into the workday. That was refreshing to hear.
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Why does the next Governor of Texas only have 46 thousand followers? Give her a follow!
Texans’ electricity bills have skyrocketed, meanwhile Greg Abbott's ERCOT board gives themselves a 30% raise.
This is Greg Abbott’s record: he helps his friends get rich while working Texans are struggling to pay their bills. bit.ly/4yIyvyy
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Really cool identity work by Kurppa Hosk for Swedish furniture company No Early Birds. The system focus on pure Scandinavian restraint with monochrome palettes, beautiful grid, and super simple wordmark that mirrors the architectural, cross-leg metal structures of the furniture itself.
Great example of letting product photography, tactile paper stocks, and clean editorial pacing carry the brand without adding unnecessary decoration.
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Fasting glucose: 88. Normal.
A1c: 5.7. Not.
Same blood, same day. One of those gets run at every physical. The other one you have to know to ask for.
Wrote the whole thing up. Three months in, next lab draw end of September.
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See y'all tomorrow at 2!
Summer winding down means Fulham winding up. Join us tomorrow afternoon at our official watch pub @BurnetGoTo for our first watch event of the year v Chelsea!! Bring your curious family, friends, and Madridistas! Gonna be an incredible year! 🤍🖤
