Work #
- Worked 37 hours this week
- Opened new bank accounts for SuperFriendly
- Schemed with Adekunle Oduye
- Talked to Noël Jackson about prospective project with Lauren Deal and Kevin Deal
- Tech check for AIGA Portfolio Festival
- Talked to TJ Pitre about prospective project with Lauren Deal and Kevin Deal
- Create site map sketch for new SuperFriendly site
- Talked to Emily Edwards about prospective project
- Account strategy chat with Nicole Hampton, TJ Pitre, and Joe Rinaldi
- Spoke at AIGA Portfolio Festival
- Talked to prospective client about design system consulting
- Biz dev check-in with Joe Rinaldi
- Talked to Celso White about new project
- Talked to Patrick Harrington
- Reviewed SOWs for new side project
- Watched Ellen Lupton’s AIGA Portfolio Festival talk and portfolio review
- Weekly Systems team meeting
- Participated in user interview with Lauren Deal
- Created account reporting template
- Watched Michael Bierut’s AIGA Portfolio Festival talk and portfolio review
- New project sync with Patrice Embry, Crystal Vitelli, and Joshua Blankenship
- Working session with Crystal Vitelli
- Talked to Mike Carbone about new side project
- Spoke to Ladies that UX ATL meetup about design systems
- Superpowers meeting with new account team
- Working session with Crystal Vitelli
- AIGA Portfolio Festival private reviews
- Helped prep existing client to sell CTO on design systems
- Talked to Leslie Camacho about new side project
Personal #
- Tried to photograph Comet Neowise but I couldn’t even find the dang thing. I’ll try again this week.
- Explored a new bike trail with the girls
- Found and killed 2 cicada wasp killers in the house
- Bought 3 new domain names
- Slept an average of 7 hours and 7 minutes per night. Average bedtime: 11:01pm. Average wake up time: 6:28am.
Watched #
- A Kid from Coney Island
- Ratatouille
- Magnetic
- One episode of Chasing Monsters
Notable reads #
- Range, by David Epstein
- X-Men (2019) #4
- Since upgrading to macOS Catalina and losing support for the standalone SVGO GUI, Jake Archibald’s SVGO’s Missing GUI continues to be a lifesaver for optimizing SVGs.
- I continue to be envious of Warren Buffet’s alleged 24-hour meeting policy. I’m getting closer to implementing it myself.
- It seems to be the time of year when I think about starting a few new companies, so I’m doing more research on employee equity.
- Hey! Jen Robbins’s Cooking With Rock Stars is coming back!
- The project management triangle continues to be relevant.
- InVision released their Guide to Benchmarking Your Design System.
- I learned about McKinsey’s three horizons of growth, which apparently no longer applies.
- Girls’ Night In launched The Lounge, a new membership platform for connecting online and IRL.
- Funsize launched a beautiful new Volvo Cars site.