Newsletter
The Last Few Weeks is a newsletter about product design and leadership, with a touch of email and climate tech, sent once or twice a month.
- I’m coding more: Using AI but avoiding the slop And using Figma less: Only for general direction, not as source of truth.
- Stars, Bubbles, and the Best AI Model Plus the wrong way to design with code.
- The perils of vibe-coding and getting faster manager approvals Plus some good climate news 🌿
- Management Values I Didn’t Expect to Learn Plus solar-powered data centers... in space?
- Strategy, not vibe-coding, is your superpower Plus burner phones and the return of Digg!
- What happened at Shopify after that memo Plus: politics and tech will always be intertwined
- We’ll all be design engineers in a year And that’s a good thing!
- Vibe coding does have its limits Plus using LLMs as a people manager
- Designers should code 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Or something else, design alone isn’t enough anymore.
- Reviewing designs and senseless UIs Also, remember... most people don’t want to use software.
- How to influence and lead as a staff designer Plus how customer service can benefit from Ai (hint: not chatbots)
- How senior designers get promoted Plus... am I quitting social media? Maybe.
- The State of UX, Social Media, and Agile Development A few small thoughts and good links from around the web.
- BFSBSCMGT? How about buying less? Plus how to craft quality products
- Move fast and break things that can be fixed Plus a short note on the US election.
- How I manage a packed calendar while keeping my sanity A few lessons learned from being a product design lead and manager at a late stage startup.
- A Newsletter about newsletters Plus in the age of Ai and design systems, taste is king.
- Design in a Sea of Engineering An article I wrote in 2016 about being the only designer on my team
- Management is disappointing people at a rate they can absorb Plus unorthodox PM tactics and a really good email marketing course.
- The Road Less Stupid And a quick word on 🇺🇸 politics...