Personal Growth and Leadership

Afraid of negative feedback for your design work? Try this instead

Learn how to navigate negative feedback or mitigate it completely with this one strategy

How do you break into a UI/UX design role even during a layoff period?

Learn what UI/UX design recruiters are looking for when evaluating portfolios and what you can do to start learning

Personal Growth and Leadership

How do you get stakeholders to buy into variable scope product pitches?

When you're starting to adopt Shape Up [https://basecamp.com/shapeup/] at your company it's common to feel like the concept of fixed time and variable scope [https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.2-chapter-03#fixed-time-variable-scope] is daunting to both stakeholders/leadership and builders: * Stakeholders are unsettled by the fact that they

Personal Growth and Leadership

Asking Open AI's CTO for access to GPT-3

Context: I emailed Open AI's CTO, Greg Brockman [https://twitter.com/gdb] about getting access to GPT-3. In this email, I wanted to tell him about the position I wanted to take, helping independent creators talk about their ideas on Twitter, how it's going to be utilised and how it's

Personal Growth and Leadership

Ending Very Bad Wizards the service

I've been contemplating approaching talking about how we've sort of ended Very Bad Wizards [https://verybadwizards.io/] to try our hand at building products. It isn't easy talking about, but there's a lesson here for you: The wizarding business is something we started out of frustration and disdain for doing

Product Strategy and Management

Early lessons building a service business

If you're starting a new service-based business, there are tons of things learn. It's never been easier to start a business, but it's also never been harder to get it off the ground. The following 8 lessons have helped me along the way starting Very Bad Wizards [https://verybadwizards.io/