One of the many things I learned from Gentry Underwood about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*

an author of the big new climate report turned it into haiku and i don't think a scientist has ever communicated so clearly

When I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of college and about to start my first job, my father gave me a handwritten list of instructions.

Here are my dad's rules:

This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes

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Said goodbye to Sunny December (SunnyD!) last night. The house is so empty today without this loving/lovable fluffy goofball 💔

In case Twitter is making you anxious, here’s a man making a traditional teapot.

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This is what an ACTUAL war on Christmas looks like.

This feels like waiting to jump into the abyss. Just in case we land on soft ground: @[email protected]

BREAKING: Glenn Youngkin introduces a new proposed K-5 history curriculum, completely REMOVING all mention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I want to be right, so I keep looking for how I could be wrong.

I ask my coworkers what worries them, how I'm wrong, what I'm missing. I repeat and repeat that I want the bad news, because I can't help fix problems I don't know exist.

Covid-timely…

“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need willpower.”

“What is willpower?” asked Toad.

Oh I can’t wait for Musk’s first congressional hearing …

“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.”

— Martin LeBlanc

Happy Friday peeps. I'm tired. Exhausted, as I know so many are. In addition to midterm stress, I have #notallwhitewomen fatigue. It's a chronic condition. The last thing I planned to do today was another thread but...let's talk about niceness & some other things. 1/

One of the most common questions I get asked is “how can I get my company to invest more in design / research?” 🧵

White voters under 30......

Invited to the cookout.

It's official. I will be the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.

We bet on the people of Pennsylvania - and you didn’t let us down 

And I won’t let you down. Thank you.