Dirk Knemeyer

My new project on the impact AI-driven automation will have on creative professionals is going live on February 19. Check our website to hear a preview episode and sign up for our low-volume mailing list: creativenext.org

@andybudd I’ve been proceduralizing and automating my company so it is prepped to later sell to the widest range of buyers and at the best multiple and it’s like you’re spying on the arc of our last 6-9 months.

Step 1: Come up with a comprehensive strategy Step 2: Align company goals with team goals (maybe through OKRs) Step 3: Ignore all that and just deliver what you’ve been told to deliver from the backlog Step 4: Repeat

@bigmediumjosh @brad_frost Congrats, Josh! Thrilled for you both and inspired by the quality and scope of the work.

Psst... It took our team years of fine-tuning, but we've landed on the complete recipe for a multi-brand, multi-product, multi-platform design system. Big Medium’s @brad_frost spills the beans with a complete, detailed tour: bigmedium.com/ideas/design-s…

@SorenJohnson I feel that. It was a reach to spend a meal on that instead of a crowd pleaser like sushi, ramen, etc. But, so worth!

@dknemeyer Very cool - a LOT harder to find on the East Coast. It can be a pretty hard sell. "So, it's like a noodle pancake cooked on a griddle with fish flakes and a thick plum sauce..." and people start to question the life choices that led to dinner with me.

It may be a little short on looks, but this is my favorite Japanese cuisine - okonomiyaki!

@benjaminlistwon Just happened to see this and sorry I missed the poll. For when faced with a similar choice: Snow Crash movie script!

@SorenJohnson This is an epidemic in the @Microsoft ecosystem. I stopped using #Skype years ago for this very fail loop. Recently someone requested I use Skype for a call with them and, shock, still isn’t fixed. Never opening Skype again.

How many times has this happened to you? 1. Login to a website with the correct password 2. Site tells you the password is wrong 3. Click the reset password link 4. Type in the same password 5. Site says you can't use your last password 6. Grimace

@GilesPink Some companies flip it on purpose to force errors that make it less likely users opt out/unsubscribe/whatever action the company doesn't want them to take. It falls into a class of UX called "dark patterns".

Our body is a system. Our life is a system. We humans, together, are a collective system. And the systemic impacts of things we used to think were unrelated are only going to become more apparent in the decades ahead. cnn.com/2021/09/22/hea…

@sbkaufman Fearing something and doing it anyway.

What does courage mean to you?

@TheElsieEscobar Same. I only call ppl (other than professional meetings) when I'm driving for the same reason. Makes my mom a little crazy.

Great anchoring behavior for my ADHD brain - folding clothes while in meetings 🤓

@GilesPink Me too brother.

A friend was chiding me for working on vacation. He asked me the last time I took a real vacation with zero work. Originally I answered not as an adult but then remembered: they had no available internet in North Korea. My only adult full and proper vacation was to North Korea.

@sbkaufman I've found I actually appreciate more intimacy than most people. But, then I also appreciate more solitude. It's dealing with people in groups that I almost never need.

Introverts need intimacy too, don't you know. They just don't need as much novel sociality.

"It... seems intuitive that introverts will fare better than extroverts during periods of lockdown isolation. Some anecdotal evidence supports this contention, but scientific evidence is now stacking up to dismiss the idea that introverts love lockdowns." theconversation.com/have-introvert…

I work with and for smart and lovely people. Hope your work experience is similar, and that you're having a great day today!

Yahoo Answers is shutting down. Back in the Web 2.0 days Y! Answers was important for a minute or three. Logging in for the first time in many years, my Questions and Answers are a weird trip down memory lane of a hyper-specific time for both me and the interwebs. #RIP

@sbkaufman Sounds lovely. Would require a remarkable degree of emotional maturity and self-esteem that most people don’t currently have. How do you propose we bridge the gap?

Imagine if we all had more unconditional positive regard for each other?

Both clients and co-workers, I love the people who I'm working with. So fortunate for my work life to be full of smart and lovely folks.

@gengelstein No I do this as well. I think it is instinctual empathy. Similarly, I'm 6'4" and I instinctively slouch when around shorter people (almost everyone!) because I feel uncomfortable around people taller than me and want those I'm around to feel comfortable.

I constantly catch myself subconsciously imitating people's accents, and I'm a bit horrified inside when I do. I'm concerned people will think I'm mocking them, but it's certainly not my intent. Is it just me?

Birgitte Nyborg is my fictional hero. Related, if you haven't seen the show "Borgen" before it's on Netflix and totally worth.

Eagerness to express my ignorance in order to better understand always ends well, often including better interpersonal relationships thanks to the perceived humility inherent in the act.