Product designer. Always accidentally cooking more food than I can eat. 🍜🍛🥗
Toronto, Canada
Joined December 2010
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There were a few resources that I referenced during my #blend2022 talk, so I thought that I could share them here! I'll also link to some that I didn't mention but were very influential to how I learned to deal with friction:
Here we go! ⚡️
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I signed up for a LARP at #gencon so I reached out to the GM to say I was bringing a 6mo baby and could they incorporate that into my character?
I got a character sheet saying I was a minor noblewoman who had recently had a baby… or so it appeared to others. 1/3
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My daughter asked if she could have a readover instead of a sleepover. Where friends come over and you just read for hours. And now I want one too.
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I've been asking my male friends to do something - *watch if the first response to everything a woman tells you is to refute, say no or something negative*
One texted me later: Holy f*ck
The problem is, constantly putting up with unwarranted resistance is bad for mental health.
I started with Canva - got the general look and feel but _the lines just won't line up_
Then tried Affinity Designer and... it's not the same Illustrator :(
... and as I'm doing this, I start thinking "there's gotta be something I can use without learning something new"
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ideally if you had user guides at all they would work to form a matrix of preferences and needs as a team, kind of like how you would compose a team with overlapping and different skills. teams would set the norms together and they’d shift as people join and leave
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1/ 15 minute Rule?
Remember that what matters is the inhalation dose (D) - which is equal to C x B x t x f
C = concentration of SARS-CoV-2 virions in breathing zone air (inside of mask if mask worn) (#/L) embedded in respiratory aerosol particles.
B = .....
The next time an older relative comments on my weight, I'm going to reply with my latest workout.
"Your wedding is coming up! Are you losing weight?"
"I split squatted 32kg and swung steel maces around my head a bunch of times last night!" 💪
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"Imagine thinking that people who are of Asian descent (a majority of humans) and aren’t male (also a majority of humans) are a “relatively small” segment of the population." @originalspin #TurningRed
theguardian.com/global/2022/… – at Toronto, Ontario
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Mask requirements end today in Ontario. I’ll still be wearing mine when entering shops because it’s a chill & easy way for me to make that space safer for others.
And I’d rather save my risk budget for moments when it’s more meaningful to not mask.
ALT Sam in an N95 mask holding up a peace sign in a floral patterned button up collared shirt
Tax season always stresses me out. This year is so much worse because I have no idea what to do about employee stock options. Figuring out how exercising and selling your employee stock options impacts your tax filing should NOT be this hard, especially since it's so common now.
TL;DR: Taxes should NOT be this stressful. I WANT to file them. Stop making it so hard to figure out 😫
I talked a lot about communication skills and, while we develop and mature those skills over time, Tom Greever's "Articulating Design Decisions" is a great place to start/refresh.
oreilly.com/library/view/art…