Automation & productivity educator. Teaching @NotionHQ on Youtube. Building @FlylighterHQ. Probably eating poke or playing DDR right now.
Des Moines, IA
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Currently 892 hours into automating a 30-second task I do 4 times a year
It's gonna be so worth it once I get everything working
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I think the differentiator is community outside of work.
Regular social interaction outside of work + remote work is my ideal. Without that social interaction, I agree remote work can get miserable.
My strongest “vibes not evidence” belief is that remote work is a cancer that’s making (most) people miserable even though it seems better in the short term.
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Albums might be more interesting than games! I haven't listened to the vast majority of what I'm seeing people sharing.
Mine's limited to one album per artist; otherwise @therealTDH would be half the grid.
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This goes beyond AI.
With this particular example, I remember it becoming a trend before AI was doing a lot of UI work.
If memory serves, landing pages initially used this technique to announce timely things right above the hero text. Then a lot more people started assuming every landing page needed some text there.
A lot of what is abundant, online and now in training data, is that way because a few people did it first with intention... and then a lot more people did it simply because they assumed it's part of what made the initial few successful.
please don't do this.
it's called "eyebrow" text and it's the latest vibecode-slop tell.
it serves no useful purpose. again, it's this "gesturing" LLMs do and you need to be aware of it. it puts this eyebrow text there because it's a landing page typography trope that bamboozles your brain into thinking "yes this looks like a good and proper landing page!"
and you think "the more detail = cleverer model!"
but it's dumb. all this design clutter has no actual thought - it's still stochastic parrot without a trained & experienced designer's guidance. the clever but hard thing is reduction. reducing and eliminating. good design is simple. great design is invisible.
this eyebrow test is just more unnecessary visual clutter the Opus 5.5 is obsessed with.
do not accept the default. take care with your work.
every element is unnecessary until proven essential.
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Nothing other than DDR could take the top spot for me.
Some of the others were pretty hard to choose, especially since they pushed off some greats (sorry Breath of the Wild)
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See also the Curb Cut Effect. (There's a great 99% Invisible episode on this)
Accessibility improvements, when done well, tend to benefit everyone.
a trap that a lot of products fall into is they think that accessibility features are only meant for certain groups of people and so they start considering this work as a checkbox to tick off and move on.
but i think that gets it wrong. accessibility should be about making better products for everyone!
today when i walk around the notion office, i see many of my coworkers now using high-contrast mode (myself included!), not because they are vision-impaired, but because @tamralikecamra and co sweat the details to make it beautiful for everyone.
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Started reading my first Terry Pratchett novel the other day (Going Postal).
Every page is just a joy to read. Why did I put off Discworld for so long?
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Started reading this yesterday. I think a real-world Ignatius would make pretty good money on Twitter
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Half of the AI bubble's valuation is propped up on very opinionated nerds building their own versions of Obsidian
- cogito.md/
- clearly.md/
- writer.computer/
- tolaria.md/
- md-preview.app/
- github.com/GRVYDEV/marky
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Great tips here. One I'll add:
Record the whole video "for real". Then go to sleep. Then record it again the next day.
I've done this a bunch of times. A "for real" take is fantastic practice, and then a good night's sleep makes the second try feel much more natural.
My best tips on speaking to a camera that feel timely given timeline discourse:
- The camera isn't judging you, you're judging yourself
- Speak like you're vibing with your best friend
- Vary pace & tone, don't just recite information
- If you're really bad, go do Toastmasters for reps or improv to kill internal self-judgment fast
- If you're boring at all it literally doesn't matter at all what you're saying, no one cares. Fix that first
- It's more like singing a song than giving a speech, the energy is often more important than the substance in that it gets a viewer to keep watching so you can deliver substance
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Assuming it isn't an April Fools joke, I'm excited about this!
Among open-source CMS options, I haven't been able to find any that offer a writing experience as good as WP's Gutenberg. For all the problems WordPress has, Gutenberg gives you a really nice place to write.
Media handling is the kicker; I love being able to paste images into Gutenberg (as well as @NotionHQ) and have them automatically handled.
Hopefully EmDash handles media similarly. I'm seeing people mention the editor is based on TipTap, which likely means it does.
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I can't not post this meme, but there's a real question behind it:
When does it become truly detrimental to hand taste decisions to a model?
If you've already built up scar tissue and design sense through lots of previous work, giving a sketch to a model and then tweaking the result might be fine.
But if turn that into a habit, when do you get the opportunity to build new design sense?
I don't think you can build it through reviewing generated output, in the same way I don't think you can effectively build coding skill by reviewing generated code. I think the pressure to gloss over the results and move on is too great.
the more I've been digging into the new Figma MCP, the more excited I am about it
something new I'm trying is starting with a very ugly sketch in Figma, and then having Claude Code flesh it out in Figma so I can tweak and edit before sending the final back to Claude Code
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Tell them to go build an offline-first collaborative note-taking app with strong consistency.
Should keep 'em busy for a while.
Last year, I met a person who has never written a single line of code in his life, yet he feels he can build anything he wants.
He told me point-blank:
"I challenge you to tell me something I can't build using AI."
I tried to explain, but I couldn't find the right words.
The most fascinating aspect of vibe-coding is how it has convinced so many people to believe they are better and more capable than they really are.
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Get-Rich-Online Expert A recommends Get-Rich-Online Expert B's paid coaching services (affiliate link, of course):
"Look how well they worked for Get-Rich-Online Expert C! He's so rich now."
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Not only is time tracking possible in @NotionHQ, but you can even create a chart showing the duration for each time you've done a recurring task in the past.
How do you think this chart was built?
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My strongest audiobook recommendations
Non-Fiction:
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (he narrates and it is a treasure)
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
- Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Hardcore History by Dan Carlin (technically a podcast, but 4-hour long episodes are audiobooks. I will not be taking questions at this time)
Fiction:
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman – Jeff Hays is perhaps the single most talented narrator working today. Yes, this book has a single narrator (unless of course you get the full-cast version, because that's an option too)
I am seriously telling you: listen to audiobooks. Listen to them in the car, when you mow the lawn (with soundproof headphones atop), in places where other people don't have you attention.
"I just lose my train of thought with them" yes that's the point
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