Negativity blackholes, unburdening and resilience

Nobody but you can decide how much you care about your career. Or how much you like your employer, colleagues, or industry. Not everything is in your control, even in a field like software engineering where autonomy and flexibility are widely available. I recommend you choose one of two paths. If you want to move your career or industry forward, focus on the positive parts of your role, and spend energy making things better. Alternatively, if you don’t want to advance your career, spend the right amount of energy to stay where you are. Then, instead of joining that whiny waterhole, go home and mow the lawn, play with your dog, take a walk in the woods with your kids, or whatever you enjoy.

These complaining places aren’t just bad for your career, they’re bad for your mental and physical health too. Avoid them even if the content resonates with you. Especially if the content resonates with you.

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Rants beget rants

But some people out there are consumed by their constant complaining. And it’s infectious. The more you complain the more you find and see things worth complaining about. And that’s not healthy. It’s not healthy for them, it’s not healthy for the people around them. I can’t pay you for every minute you have to face something that annoys you—I’m really sorry—but that doesn’t mean you can still pretend I do and see what happens to your mind. You might be surprised.

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Big Mac, Little Content: Liquid Glass Serves Up Extra Bezels with No Fries

But there’s one nagging feeling I have about reinterpreting beloved things, which is that before anyone attempts to do it, they must first seek to understand why it is beloved. It is only through understanding it that anyone can do the job well.

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Frosted Flakes, Toasted Takes: Liquid Glass Transparency Taxes Content

The fact I’m feeling any relief looking at Android’s UI is not a great sign. But then I scroll something behind the glass button that looks amazing and I want them to stick with this glass effect forever.




“Liquid glass has some trade-offs but when it hits, it’s really fucking rad,” is the most honest way to pitch it in my book. It’s just tough when a platform holder with over 1 billion users tries something bold.




All that said, I can’t help shake the fact that every time I’ve seen a major platform adopt a new design system with heavy transparency, they have all retreated to more opaque designs in the years afterwards, and it’s hard not to imagine this happening again.

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