Last year I was approached by a recruiter for a company who asked if I was interested in a senior UX design role at a mid-sized fintech company. When I declined, the recruiter seemed confused. “You have five years of experience as a UX designer, you’ve led design teams, and…

I recently had a friend that I considered a promising UX designer and researcher tell me that he was considering dropping out of their boot camp. The guy was picture-perfect for the role: background in marketing, hobbyist designer who had been designing for fun and beer money over the last…

On Friday, Elon assumed control of Twitter, immediately firing most of the C suite, dozens of executives, and then swinging a reaper’s blade through the ranks of employees he could reach. Nonsensically, he demanded engineers print out the code they worked on over the last two months (before reversing course…

The 2007 post-apocalyptic horror movie I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, had a bizarre ending. Humanity has been destroyed irreparably by a virus that turns humans into strange vampire creatures that fear sunlight. Robert Neville is a researcher who spends his days alone, attempting to study these creatures and find…

A friend of mine had just finished her second year as the sole UX designer at a medtech startup in Seoul when she was complaining to me about her job. We were at a Harry Potter café in Hongdae drinking overpriced but amusing drinks while people strolled past the windows…

Moonar Overseer is a brand new incremental game from the partnership of Fox & Farthing and Playfix.io. As an incremental game, your goal is to increase production as much as possible in order to unlock all buildings. You’re overseeing a moon city and want to mine as much regolith (moon…

I know you’ve seen the articles, the videos, the tweets. Six figures in six months! Your gangplank into tech, no experience required. Learn on YouTube, apply online, humblebrag at Thanksgiving dinner this year about your stock options, your company computer, your beanbag chairs and office laundromat. It’s easy, right? How…

A friend of mine is a killer artist. When he draws from life, doodles a cartoon or sketches something on a napkin, it’s absolutely remarkable how the pen strokes go from a disjointed scramble to something immediately recognizable in a few seconds. I always ask him how he got so…

When I was fourteen I wanted a Macbook so bad I was practically bleeding out my eyes. Unable to get one, I decided that I would just design my own operating system to rival the multi-billion dollar behemoth of Apple Computers. Armed with a curve sled, a ruler, a compass…