Josh Fleetwood

Makin' stuff

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[noah @noahsreality]

paramount plus when you try to do literally anything

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

trap·pings /ˈtrapiNGz/
A horse's ornamental harness.

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

How to fight the system: Become the system and then punch yourself in the face! 👊

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

You don't learn anything when you're talking (well maybe about yourself), so shut up and listen (unless you're by yourself, then talk all you want). #byMyselfOnTwitter

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Do Microsoft commercials not make sense on purpose? Asking for a friend.

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

A bumbling but brilliant scientist, following clues to a time machine she hasn't invented yet that's popping in and out of existence, slowly learns she's the one lost in time. #AnachronisticMacGuffin

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

In the not-so-distant future, a star-travelling CRISPR baby learns something about himself while seeking the Holy Grail, which has been placed on an alien world under mysterious circumstances #AnachronisticMacGuffin

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

I think when it becomes more and more difficult to find useful or interesting instructions for something you're doing it means you're getting pretty good at it. Or I hope it does. Otherwise I'm really bad at following instructions.

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Did the President really just Google himself for the first time? Or maybe slip past the flattering fake Google his handlers created?

[Ben W Dorwin @benwdorwin]

.@movie_goofs
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Production Error

While the film correctly portrays the historical significance of the Ark, the dimensions are the Ark itself are incorrect. In reality, the Ark shown in the film would be too small to carry two of every species.

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Really proud of my team's effort on this, particularly @jdashscott. Can't wait to work with you again :) We are sumUX at Google, join us! https://t.co/obcbzuBWf4

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Heartfelt story from @adamplouff on the crazy choices and challenges of life, work, and what's really important. Proud to know you, buddy! https://t.co/UpALxGnlsW

[Battle Axe @battleaxedotco]

I'm really grateful for the chance to tell a long story about work, dev, Google and family on @motionographer https://t.co/vzvuzTeNn0

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

@marktmcewan Hadn't thought of it, but good idea. Notice some folks get confused pasting from Sketch

[Adam Plouff @adamplouff]

Speak clearly to engineers with timing, motion and easing data all in a single render.

https://t.co/rhGJ2PlMQs

[Google Design @GoogleDesign]

UX Motion folks! Check out these 🔥 new open-source tools → #Sketch2AE & Inspector Spacetime will 🚀 your workflow: https://t.co/J3oAgTZSmz

[Adam Plouff @adamplouff]

Screen designers: getting @sketchapp artboards into @AdobeAE is painful. But now it isn't with Sketch2AE.

https://t.co/Up72Jo32bg

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Got tired of a broken workflow between UX and Motion designers, so we did something about it! https://t.co/wFRFvRwSLj #uxmotiondesign

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

"Don't believe everything you think" - bumpersticker on 85 north

[Josh Fleetwood @perfundo]

Every hour wounds, the last one kills. - Orpheus c/o Neil Gaiman