Chris Westgate

⚡️⭐️✨ Animator turned product designer. Junk food enjoyer, dog appreciator. Love the 🌏

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

@machinegrlkelly There was a dude at my high school who only wore pants when it was hot and only wore shorts when it was cold

[Maj Gaga SAVE DEMOCRACY @gaga_beth]

I invite all knitters and crocheters to make handmade blankets to send to Uvalde. These can bring comfort to the families and children affected by the shooting. Send to: Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 408 Ft Clark Rd, Uvalde TX 78801

[Christopher Miller @chrizmillr]

They can’t answer why mass shootings are just an American problem because there’s only one real reason: the US isn’t the only country with mental illness or violent video games, but we are the only country with easy access to rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifles

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

If the Democratic Party wants my time, treasure, vote, and faith in them I need to see the tangible consequences Sinema and Manchin get NOW for spending a year obstructing the Dems agenda.

Not from voters and protesters. From the party leadership.

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

@michal__guy @Kurz_Gesagt Good points in there, thanks for sharing!

@Kurz_Gesagt is great at due diligence on multiple sides of topics like these and finding consensus. I'd be really interested to see them do a video about sleep.

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

This from Trevor Noah on taxing billionaires is … pretty perceptive!

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

@biggestjoel *spoiler*

my favorite part was the world war Z mob of police

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

In Lithuania they put ketchup on pizza, that would probably break this chart 🤣

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

The “Acceptable To Italians Index” is my new favorite set of metrics

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

what if you applied to a company with a cover letter worded just like a job listing like:

HEY! I am a ROCKSTAR designer with NO EGO!!
I like to BREAK THE RULES! I hope your company likes WORKING HARD!!!!

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

@Kirsch_Words I was going to say that creatives aren't the best at estimating their work, because they tend towards perfectionism, but at our animation studio, everyone was cutting corners and we were still behind schedule.

From the start it was unrealistic expectations

[Chris Westgate @Chris_Westgate_]

@Kirsch_Words The "pen to paper" work part of creative work takes much less time than the real mental work of imagination and ideation.

So there is a bias that art doesn't take long, especially from execs who are more used to time management for conventional work like reports, etc.

[Ryan Pallett @pallett_ryan]

The whole candle family!

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days.

[Lily Konings @lilykonings]

Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back. When they ask "Do you have any questions for me," take the opportunity to expose what your next 1+ years under this person might be like.

Here are 5 questions I have or wished I'd asked of my future managers:

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

It’s even worse for Black people. The more Black people support a policy, the *lower* the likelihood it becomes law. Anti-Blackness is a defining feature of the political system. https://t.co/Wr6vKfEypG

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

This is so important

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Overpopulation is not a problem. Global population is on track to peak and start declining in the next 30 to 50 years, and the places having the most children these days are countries with the lowest environmental impact (at least from a climate perspective).