"On the one hand, every scientist and medical expert agrees that vaccines are safe. On the other hand, a guy who's taken every kind of illegal drug ever made and once mutilated a dead whale thinks that they're not. It's hard to know who to trust."

The design industry needs more leadership styles. Work with your strengths, not against them.
Your team needs the best version of you, not someone else.
What's your experience with different leadership approaches?
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Agreed! There's still a powerful early design phase I usually call co-design, where I like to get designers/PMs/whomever in a room/meeting, dragging out components, playing around with layouts, highly experimental.

You're just playing with pre-built pieces rather than inventing things from scratch

In other news, since @jessicahische.bsky.social did mention FIDLAR.

... best song ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXTc...

Consider putting the videos or at least a link to YouTube on the site, had no idea there even were videos until the Jessica episode (she mentioned jumping off camera).

Definite value add!

i feel like a lot of folks are starting there and putting in the (absolutely insane amount of) work it takes a ton to get out of it

i'm still on that phase

ah, yes, nothing like a well-armed police force complete with their warehouse of bombs.

I feel this every time I play Factorio.

Am I just doing work for hours on end? And why is it so fun?