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It does the service no harm for the product to be put together or taken apart
Mar 20CommentShare
You must try to decouple your sense of value as a crafts-person from the entity that buys your wares.
Mar 18CommentShare
When you drift off path, oh well, the path's still right there.
Mar 17Comment 1Share
How much of what you do routinely matters?
Jul 6, 2020CommentShare
The lesson then is that this is not the worst. You can think. You can do. You are not without agency here.
Mar 16, 2020CommentShare
Practice really hearingListen now | Getting inside of our users' heads provides context and evidence for the choices we make about what's actually in our control: the serviceā€¦
Jan 20, 2020CommentShare
The end of year reckoning is often a punch to the gut, but it shouldn't be.
Dec 30, 2019CommentShare
Scipio's Villa and the Product Over TimeListen now (6 min) | I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to hisā€¦
Dec 9, 2019CommentShare
We make up deadlines, sure; we make up year ends, too.
Dec 1, 2019CommentShare
It's Halloween šŸ¦‡ The Veil is ThinListen now (2 min) | Back in April I introduced Venerating the Grave UX (medium), which is about regularly ā€œritualizingā€ negative feedback. The idea isā€¦
Oct 31, 2019CommentShare
"Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole." - Our boy, Marcus.
Oct 30, 2019CommentShare
Goal-setting should be constrained to factors in your control: that is, pursue goals that best prepare that arrowā€™s trajectory.
Oct 28, 2019CommentShare
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