Manu

Designer @LeanTechHQ Prev. founding designer @OysterMx

[Manu @manuleone]

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

— E. Saarinen.

[Manu @manuleone]

Sorry my love, no step-free access but you’re free to cycle to your destination.

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

On this day in 1974, bollards were installed in De Beauvoir, Hackney, to manage traffic and prevent danger from passing vehicles. All this happened before the term "low traffic neighbourhood" was invented.

Definitely one of my favourite areas in London, and a dream for cycling

[Katelin Holloway 💙 @katelin_cruse]

A quiet prediction for 2026, from someone who has spent a lot of time studying how humans behave at work:

I think we’re about to see an unprecedented quiet retirement of elder millennials from tech.

Not dramatic exits. Not mass layoffs. Just a steady, largely unannounced backing away.

Many elder millennials hit what was supposed to be the payoff phase of their careers—middle to senior roles, stable compensation, some accumulated growth—at the exact moment life got heavier. Kids entering adolescence. Parents aging or dying. Bodies changing. Energy changing. Perspective changing. (Read: perimenopause and midlife crises...)

At the same time, the last decade didn’t quite deliver what was promised. Most stock options didn’t meaningfully materialize. Homeownership was delayed or derailed. Many relocated during the pandemic “temporarily” for childcare or sanity and never fully returned—to cities, to offices, or to the pace they once sustained.

Then AI arrived. Not just as a new tool, but as a true platform shift.

What I’m watching isn’t resistance or denial so much as a widening gap in orientation. Some people are instinctively reorganizing how they think, work, and create around this new substrate. Others are using it incrementally; helpful, but not transformative. Neither is a moral failure. But the gap compounds quickly.

For a cohort already tired, already juggling more life outside of work, and already questioning the ROI of constant grinding, the incentive to retool themselves again—this time at platform speed—just isn’t there.

So many will choose something else.

They’ll frame it (honestly) as leaning into IRL, into human connection, into building tangible things. They’ll open coffee shops, take over family businesses, learn trades, consult selectively, or turn long-held hobbies into second careers. It will look intentional. And often, it will be.

What fascinates me is not the “exit,” but the alignment: a generational life stage colliding with a technological inflection point that dramatically raises the bar for cognitive and adaptive load at work.

From an HR lens, it’s one of the most interesting workforce transitions I’ve ever seen unfolding in real time... and I think we’re still underestimating how quietly, and how profoundly, it will reshape who stays, who leaves, and what “career success” even means next.

[Manu @manuleone]

I don’t see the point of
@British_Airways having a mobile app. Always buggy and never optimised for searching, manage a booking or check-in without going through a maze of web-views, errors and ultimately useless troubleshooting.

[Manu @manuleone]

Fifth orbit here.

[Manu @manuleone]

@peduarte @raycast that lol

[Manu @manuleone]

not sure what to gift a loved one this season? get them a @raycast Pro subscription

[Manu @manuleone]

@peduarte @raycast it’s a second brain

[Manu @manuleone]

Claro que es penal.

[Manu @manuleone]

Prawn land

[Manu @manuleone]

@lagarfieldmusic London baby

[Manu @manuleone]

How can cyclists report dangerous driving on the roads? Almost three of us and two pedestrians got killed by an irresponsible motorist. @metpoliceuk @DVSAEnforcement @hackneycouncil

[Manu @manuleone]

@rogie Thinking about all the confusing naming conventions, file organisation, lack of documentation and duplication choices I’ve done, AI could really make a difference! Maintaining a neat workspace shouldn’t be something that gets pushed because of the time it takes.

[Manu @manuleone]

British cuisine, best in the world. In all fairness the potato looks sort of cooked.

[Mexican Embassy UK @Embamexru]

¡#GritoDeIndependencia2023 en Londres! 🔔🇲🇽

Acompañada de los Agregados Militares @SEDENAmx y Navales @SEMAR_mx, la embajadora @josefagbom dio esta noche ante la comunidad mexicana el Grito de Independencia 🇲🇽 en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧

¡¡¡Viva México!!!

[Taquitojocoque @taquitojocoque0]

🇲🇽 VIVA MÉXICO CABRONES ❤️

[Manu @manuleone]

@duolingo mntrr

[Manu @manuleone]

@duolingo I lost a long streak over the last week. Despite purchasing freezes and getting Duolingo Plus I just cannot repair it. Can you help? Else there’s no incentives to keep up.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

GP surgery receptionists gearing up for 8am.