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A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away.

If you’re in tech and you don’t have at least a little career anxiety right now, you are either overly confident or you aren’t paying attention.

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.

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 career are even useful anymore.

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.

Since reflecting on one year at Microsoft almost 12 months ago, a lot has changed.

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 age of ice cream.

America’s Best Decade, According to Data The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s.

The Rise of Dopamine Culture “Here’s where the science gets really ugly.

Last week marked one year at Microsoft for me, and what an unexpected adventure it’s been!

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 love: snail mucin.

Despite living in Seattle for almost all of my adult life, I haven’t actually worked for a local company in almost ten years.

Over the last several weeks, I’ve gotten in the habit of trying to move all of my Twitter activity over to Mastodon instead.

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.

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.