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So excited to be speaking at Clarity again! And to be on this roster of very smart folks!!

Such a great book!

Spent the weekend with a bunch of very lovely web friends. Forgot to take any pictures. Did it even happen?

The advice from my talk that seemed to resonate most with attendees. This was my first time giving a talk on leading without formal authority and designing your own career path. Thank you @seattleinteract for being such a wonderful audience!

@gerireid A whole month! Which is both exciting and terrifying. Going to be spending a lot of it out in your part of the world too!

@vlh How exciting, how long are you planning away?

Feeling equal parts excitement and FOMO as I'm getting ready to take my first ever sabbatical. I definitely need some time to recharge, but I'm also in the middle of some exciting projects at work.

@editingemily @sarah_edo I miss you too!

@vlh @sarah_edo Yes you do! We miss you!!!

What I expect @sarah_edo to do every time we see a toxic man who is my type. 😂

I didn't expect to be reading about SEO and alt tags in an article about how AI models are trained, but here were are... "It contains less about how humans see the world than it does about how search engines see the world..." knowingmachines.org/models-all-the…

On behalf of @designtokens: We’re looking to update and refresh designtokens.org. We've got some educational resources planned, but would love to hear what else y'all would like to see included. What would be most useful to you? We’d love to hear your feedback!

@cassiecodes Love the new logo!

Grinning.

Me and a few of my favourite coworkers wrote about what it means to lead as a Principal Designer: adobe.design/stories/our-pe…

Learning all the best questions to ask containers from @TerribleMia at #FrontZurich

One of my favs from last week's shelter dog photoshoot. Ambrose was a very happy model!

25 slides for a 5 min presentation? I might be overdoing it.

@gerireid I think the second might be even better than the first. It still has so many of those so stressful I almost can't watch scenes!

@vlh Loved the first series, Jeremy Allen White is just phenomenal. I got through college working in a kitchen, I find the service scenes so stressful I almost can’t watch 🙈

The Bear is some of the most stressful TV I’ve ever watched, but in the best way.

I write a lot of comments to myself in design files. I assume this is totally normal.

@editingemily It is really cute though!

I’m notorious for not measuring things properly before buying them. Usually they’re too big. This time, I ordered a Jizo garden statue. I expected a normal-sized garden statue. What showed up? This adorable but minuscule thing. Does it go IN a peony?!

Started my day in the circle of travel hell known as flying Spirit out of Newark. It was a dark dark place, but I made it home and things can only go up from here.