Published in TimeSaved Engineering·Nov 18, 2020Kill your stand-upHow to redesign your meetings if your team is falling asleep — For a while, this is how stand-ups were for the engineering team at TimeSaved: People are bored The updates sound the same every time You can’t remember why you do it It feels like a chore Why were we even having stand-ups? Stand-ups are so baked into modern engineering culture that we never really considered an…Meetings7 min readMeetings7 min read
Dec 10, 2019How To Sleep WellOver the years, I’ve built up a perfect method to help consistently achieve a deep, restful sleep. I’m sharing all the details here to serve as a reference for anyone who’s interested in improving their own sleep. Looking through the lenses of pharmacology, technology, habits, and setting, you can cultivate…Sleep4 min readSleep4 min read
Published in UX Collective·Nov 7, 2019Why you should be running your design team entirely on Notion + Whimsical + FigmaIt’s time to leave the world of a dozen single-purpose apps behind. — Say goodbye to the giant set of tools that trail in your team’s wake and lay there forgotten, silently draining your budget and accumulating cruft. Say goodbye to Google Docs, Sheets, Airtable, Trello, JIRA, Confluence, Balsamiq, Draw.io, …Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in Prototypr·Nov 21, 2017Choosing the Right Bootcamp For YouAccelerated learning is the fastest and most straightforward way to get into the booming tech industry. But how do you make the life-changing choice of which school and course to take? — “Learn UX Design now!” “Become a programmer in 8 weeks!” “Xcelerated Learning School guarantees you a job!” I’m sure you’ve seen these. I’m sure you’ve heard some version of this basic promise: Quit your job, give us three months (and $10k+), and we’ll turn you into a highly-paid world-changing employee…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Oct 23, 2017I’m breaking my writing barrierFor five years I’ve been planning blog posts, drafting them, taking notes, composing series of articles that never see the light of screens. So here it is. My first blog post. A whopping 49 words. I promise the next one won’t take 5 years.Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
