Adam Warner

I’m a UX professional in Seattle who designs and ensures the usability of apps. Christ-follower, avid gamer, and obsessive designer annoyed by bad interfaces :)

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@ZohranKMamdani You’re a disgrace to this country. How dare you whitewash this event.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Encouraging. Detail matters. Care matters. And whether they realize it or not, customers can feel the difference.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO on September 1. The 51-year old SVP of Hardware Engineering has spent 25 years at Apple.

Back in 2024, he gave a commencement speech at Penn Engineering School and did a version of Steve Jobs “paint both sides of the fence even if other people don’t know” attention-to-detail story…about screws for the Cinema Dislay monitor:

“Here’s my first [advice]: the care that you put into your work really matters. My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. These screws were made of stainless steel, and the head of every screw was machined to have a pattern of concentric grooves that shimmered like a CD when light moved across it. I should probably say, if some of you have never seen a CD before, you can ask your parents afterward.

At some point in my first year, I found myself at a supplier facility. I was far away from home, it was well past midnight. I was using a magnifying glass to count the number of grooves on the head of this screw, which, remember, lives on the back of the display. And I was arguing with the supplier because these parts had 35 grooves, they were supposed to have 25.

I distinctly remember stepping back for a minute and thinking to myself, “What the hell am I doing? Is this normal?” And I thought about it, and I realized it might not be normal, but it’s right. It’s right because I’d already spent months working on that product, and if you’re going to spend that much time on something, you should put in your very best effort. Maybe a customer notices, maybe they don’t, but either way, whenever I saw one of those displays on someone’s desk, it mattered to me to know that my teammates and I had considered everything about it and done the very best job we could.”

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It is a perfectly reasonable standard for a society to set that if you murder a child, your life is over. If you wanna let an insanity plea spare them from the death penalty? Fine. But they must die in prison. It’s not about punishment. It’s just protection. If you could snap and kill a kid, you simply can’t be trusted around people anymore. No matter what triggered it. This is in no way controversial.

It’s not like these baby killers are out curing cancer or something. They can rot in jail and ask God for mercy. We have become way too tolerant of criminality and way too compassionate towards the dregs of society. We have to stop wasting our compassion on baby killers and drug zombies. We have fire victims in Altadena and the Palisades and Spokane and Paradise (still) who are completely screwed and we are using up all our energy and empathy on the worst people in society. Snap out of it, folks.

[Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99]

Seattle cops are an absolute embarrassment to law enforcement...no wonder Seattle is drug infested hell hole

[Jeff Dye @JeffDye]

Modern times. 😑

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@RobertS26832003 @Panagio3309288 @CollinRugg Tell me you don’t understand sarcasm, history, and irony without telling me…

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@DanHolbrook @CollinRugg Forget about her license. Someone needs to check on the status and wellbeing of her poor children.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@Ryan_Parkerrr I would show my ID like a normal voter.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@nytimes Hahaha - "restricts." The bias is so on the nose these days. A citizenship list is just a list of eligible voters...

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Or you know it will just require the basic level of ID check required for practically everything in life. The fact that you think this will disenfranchise those who are not white just goes to show how racist you are. We used to call that the soft racism of lowered expectations Bob.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

Suicidal Empathy is going to be the downfall of Western civilization.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Seattle’s leadership is fundamentally broken. I’ve seen this time and time again. They create an untenable situation due to their own policies, then gaslight the public into blaming it on whomever supposedly has “power” in the situation. Marxism is an evil, blame shifting ideology.
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[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@MartyTheElder Too bad the rest of the Halo staff can’t stand in solidarity with you and not attend. Would stop this bullshit.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@MartyTheElder Losers. These people are not Americans. Free speech is fundamental.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@noackitty @ericweinstein You must live far away from our major cities.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Those of us bitterly opposed to communism fall into two different groups.

A) Those who argue that it must be abandoned because it has show us that it doesn’t work.

B) Those of us that are so bitterly opposed to collectivism applied to dissenting individuals that we are relieved that it *cannot* work. A happy accident. Those who don’t care if it *could* be made to work: we’d continue to fight it. Working or not working is irrelevant. It’s just bad. Period. The end.

If Communism could actually be shown to deliver stable high levels of growth and innovation, broadly distributed, with low inequality,
I believe I would still fight it to my dying breath.

My opposition to communism has little to nothing to do with the fact that it doesn’t work as an economic system. So, it’s merely a relief that it doesn’t work. A convenience for its opposition.

Communism and collectivism are intrinsically soul killing for people who are hyper-individualistic . So let’s stop hiding behind the fact that they don’t work as economic or governance systems.

Some of us who aren’t the biggest fans of naked capitalism red of tooth and claw, hate communism not because we think capitalism is intrinsically fair. It isn’t. We oppose it because communism hunts the individual.

For us, It’s not communism vs capitalism. That is a businessman’s argument. Instead, it’s communism vs individualism for me. Show me a system that fights harder to let a dissenting individual thrive more than brutal market capitalism (which also barely works), and I am all ears.

Not everything is a market after all.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

@conrad_xzavier @tpusafaith @russellbjohnson Leave your evil off this platform.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Spot on. “Good enough” has been a cancer on the software industry. I say this with over a decade of corporate UX and 20+ years in design, knowing all the very logical and practical reasons how we got here, but it’s still painful to see.
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[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Wonderfully concise reading of the difference between empathy and love.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Adam Warner @Aldous647]

Thank you Ben for combating this. Take all the arguments about evidence, etc. out of this for a second: The discontent, discord, and chaos Candice and others have generated on the back of Charlie’s death, and against his wife and children, is a vial, evil behavior that fractured an unprecedented unifying moment for the right. She’s not just asking questions, she’s spreading discord for clicks.