Good design takes time. Preferably large blocks of time.
Large blocks of time are increasingly rare these days.
Especially when your calendar is fragmented by countless meetings.
And your output is measured in sprints, points and tasks.
When asked to draw their trip to school, children who walk to school drew a more vibrant picture than those driven in a car. Every student should have the option to walk or bike to school in a safe manner, full stop. (via Margrit Stamm)
i used to think self-promotion was a really icky concept & practice, until i realized that the actual self-centered thing is to believe that people will just flock to your work (based on talent/"merit") without you having to say anything about it/support readers in finding it
The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.
I recently went to a holiday dinner in the suburbs. I decided to walk instead of driving there. It was interesting to physically experience the progressive descent into car-dependency.
Below is a picture 🧵 of my 20km five hour walk (1/44):