Jon Willey

I thought working in pro sports would make me feel alive. Instead, it almost broke me.

Hear me out… The Pitt, but based around baseball teams content departments.

4am vibes

look at how beautiful this is pictures like this really make me feel we should bomb each other and charge thousands of dollars for life saving medication and sit in our car all day and work endless hours to eat jalapeño poppers and pay rent to Blackstone

What baffles me about homophobia is this: gay people don’t affect your finances, your health, or your progress in any way. So going out of your way to spread hate just means you’re just a horrible person. Also, using religion doesn’t make you less horrible.

Creative teams solve problems. They shouldn’t have to invent them. Clear brief → better ideas → fewer revisions → stronger work. Full piece below. Link ↓ open.substack.com/pub/jonwilley/…

designers who understand business become extremely valuable. designers who only understand aesthetics become replaceable.

This. Every word.

Omg yes that’s exactly what I meant to type … gahero

Go to that baseball game alone. Treat yourself to that good seat with the perfect view. Make friends with the strangers around you. You won’t regret it. Life is too short to wait for others to do things that will make you happy.

Early contender for photo of the season

EVERY COMPANY: We'd like to promote mental health in the workplace. EMPLOYEES: How about hiring more people so we feel less pressured & increase our pay so we can keep up with the spiraling cost of living so we're not so stressed out. EVERY COMPANY: No not like that. Try Yoga.

Introducing: Railcut Track-based editing for After Effects. Cut, slip, slide, ripple edit, waveforms, thumbnails. No more round-tripping to Premiere. jakeinmotion.com/railcut

They keep saying “save more” like we’re just bad with money. Save what? Rent is insane. Food is expensive. One small emergency wipes you out. At some point you have to admit it… this system doesn’t work for normal people anymore.

The Phillies made a hype video for their ballboy and it is the greatest thing ever 👏

I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire. It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs. Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ? Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us. Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.

Jeff Daniels, "We've lost decency, we've lost civility, we've lost respect for the rule of law" "We have normalised verbal abuse on the internet" "We have normalised bullying" "And out the window goes character, integrity" "Ideally, we're supposed to elect the best of us" "Not the worst of us" "Trump is everything that is wrong with being a human being"

The companies that figure this out first win the talent war . . . same pay, less hours, better output. That's not a perk — that's a competitive moat. The ones still making people sit at desks for 8 hours pretending to be busy are going to lose their best people to the ones who aren't