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The Future Favors the Curious
If you’re a designer in the market for a job right now, you probably feel behind the AI wave already, and you’re wondering if the skills you’ve honed in your...
47 Years Later, The Palisades Disappeared Overnight
I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was...
We are Hiring at Microsoft AI
Since reflecting on one year at Microsoft almost 12 months ago, a lot has changed. Most visibly to the outside world, we’ve completely re-designed and re-engineered our Copilot consumer app...
We Live in the Golden Age of Ice Cream
I tried some absolutely outstanding ice cream yesterday that reminded me of yet another reason I feel lucky to be part of Generation X: We are living in the golden...
⇗ America’s Best Decade, According to Data
America’s Best Decade, According to Data The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to...
⇗ The Rise of Dopamine Culture
The Rise of Dopamine Culture “Here’s where the science gets really ugly. The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle...
One year at Microsoft
Last week marked one year at Microsoft for me, and what an unexpected adventure it’s been! I thought I was coming in to lead a a stable of popular, but...
Yes, Rubbing Snail Slime on your Face Actually Works
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post on Mike Industries, so I thought I would resume programming with an unorthodox product suggestion that I am pretty sure you will...
I’m Joining Microsoft!
Despite living in Seattle for almost all of my adult life, I haven’t actually worked for a local company in almost ten years. Remote work is great in so many...
How to Automatically Post your Tweets to Mastodon
Over the last several weeks, I’ve gotten in the habit of trying to move all of my Twitter activity over to Mastodon instead. I signed up for Mastodon several years...
⇗ Jony Ive on Life After Apple
Jony Ive on Life After Apple One of our generation’s greatest and most influential designers hasn’t slowed down as much as he has simply shifted focus. A great example of...
Performance is the Moat
There is no shortage of opinions about today’s news that Adobe will be acquiring Figma, so I’ll try not to repeat any of what’s already been said here. A lot...
How to Order Fast Food while Inflicting as Little Damage to Yourself as Possible
Let’s get this out of the way first: I am not a dietician, an economist, or an ethicist. I am, however, a guy who likes to occasionally eat at fast...
Restoring Vintage Fiberglass Eames Chairs
We recently decided to upgrade our second-hand, fake Eames chairs with originals. We got the fake ones for free off of a neighborhood Buy Nothing group, and while they served...
I’m Joining Kraken! 🐙
One of my favorite things about the design industry is that you can have a dozen completely different careers without ever leaving the field. For me, I started in print,...
Here Lies Flash
In just a few short days, on December 31, 2020, we will say our final goodbyes to one of the most important internet technologies that ever lived: Flash. I remember...