🌮 eat at @rayrays 📸 make at @instagram 🧵 find me at threads.net/jw
Napa + SF
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Started asking the folks at Chipotle to individually package my ingredients so I can assemble it all at home.
Am I weird? Or brilliant?
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No way. You can boost your ranking with more exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t understand the folks on this website who are like “I sold two companies for $1 billion each follow me for thoughtpiece advice and learn how you can too!”
My brother, no offense, if I sold two billion dollar companies I’d never darken the door of this website again.
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This NYT illustration from Max Guther is all sorts of triggering.
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Probably turning off the account with 50M followers that promotes the idea that immigrants are an infestation to America would be a reasonable start.
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Today my friends and I are beyond happy to introduce the new Gowalla. We believe the time is right once again for a social app to connect us with our REAL friends in the REAL world.
While you grab it, let me tell you why this means so much to me
👉 gowalla.app
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📏 Turns out @figmadesign is a great tool for decks and slides. Since I do most of my presentations in Figma now, I made a series of 16:9 layout grids you can import into your own projects. Here ya go! figma.com/community/file/813…
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✨ ANNOUNCEMENT: Three-ish years ago I took a quiet step back from startup life, moved out of the city, and started a low-key design practice with a focus on early-stage companies.
Today I have a portfolio site: jw.design
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Just got an email from @duolingo with the subject “You made Duolingo sad”
I love Duolingo, but isn’t there enough going on in 2023 for us to not have to worry about the emotional well being of inanimate software?
Maybe dial it down a dozen, green cartoon owl.
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Hey Twitter 👋
There is a growing need for
💪 an independent
🌎 open source
😀 emoji library.
If you're interested in this
👩🎨 as a designer
👩💻 an engineer
📱 a software maker
😍 or an emoji-loving human
please follow along —
together we'll make it happen! 👇
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Overjoyed to be reuniting with my dad. Overcome with gratitude for so many people. He is safe and in good spirits.
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and on top of that he’s committed to making Iceland accessible for all nitter.app/iamharaldur/status/161…
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Yeaaaah... I even shook a bunch of that really good smoky-flavor Tabasco sauce into a container for the road.
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I live 45 minutes from Chipotle now. If I take it home assembled, it gets cold and soggy.
This is like the McDLT of Chipotle experiences.
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"Hip-hop culture is not responsible for a billionaire white male who has a problem with women." — @Bakari_Sellers 👀🔥
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Family Wedding. Wife's uncle just says to me: "You need to make something like that Pokemon Go."
I may need to walk this one off.
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What’s your favorite hidden gesture UI for a widely used app? Mine is still double-tap and drag to zoom Google Maps.
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Honestly been staring at this for 30 minutes and don’t exactly know what to say. Except it’s real. And I’m v excited. Let’s gooooo! 🥽
Y’all ready to go out again?
Gowalla is coming to your city in 2021. You can up for the Passport waitlist today. 👀🧡❤️💜
go.gowalla.com/
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I've learned a lot today folks. Top 3:
1. Chipotle Twitter is lit
2. I am what the kids call "extra af"
3. Line workers deserve more tips
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This is a photo of my dad, missing since last night in North Texas. He may be driving a white Toyota crew cab truck.
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I love software. Love designing software. Love seeing it come to life. If you work in this industry it’s kinda a gift. Don’t take that for granted. Even in a wonky market.
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About six weeks before this man was killed the same guys swatted my home, and left my family shaken to the core. It happened to others I know too. I'm so angry and sad. people.com/crime/tennessee-m…
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So many dunking on the Bay Area and it’s supposed soullessness, but please, tell me another place in the lower 48 with more natural beauty within a 3 hour drive.
This place is damn magic.
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Stripe got tired of you stealing their old website design so they made you a new website design to steal.
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The risk of spending incalculable time hashing ultimately meaningless design decisions at your startup is high. Get it 90% right & move on.
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yooo, I started working on a typeface some time ago, but it got shelved because kids and work and life and stuff — should I pick it back up?
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.@tedr asked me to make some stickers a couple weeks ago. We finished them last week. Will figure out a way to get them out. #EnjoyEveryDay
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I keep reading about these amazing designers who live perfect minimalist lives.
Three kids will mess your shit up I'll tell you that much.
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One week into Covid shelter-in-place, my family were the victims of a swatting incident. 40 officers in full body armor with automatic weapons and five dogs arrived at my house.
County police. City police. CHP and the SWAT team.
I will be introducing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to discontinue the program that transfers military weaponry to local police departments.
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Me: 24px
Illustrator: 24.001px
Me: 24px
Illustrator: 24.001px
Me: 24px
Illustrator: 24.001px
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One of my personal goals with @gowalla has always been to work with the most talented and creative people:
So I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have @jessicahische revisit the Gowalla logo for us. New letters for a new decade!
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Excited to finally share this: We’re rolling out a new @gowalla website today to prepare for an app launch early next year. We want to make it easy and fun to keep up with your friends in the real world.
🧵gowalla.com
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You’re mad. And I hope Texans will put every last thought, prayer, action, and vote toward removing every bloodthirsty politician like you who mistakes the ownership of a weapon of war as a God-given right.
You’re sick.
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[opens .sketch file]
Sketch: This file was created with a newer version of Sketch and cannot be opened. Please pay $69.
Figma: File imported. All objects, styles, and frames are in tact.
😬
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Vine took the $100M. Shut down.
Path didn't take the $100M. Still shut down.
Don't Monday-Morning Startup QB. It'll mess with your head.
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They're actually surprisingly chill about it. This is also way less invasive than ordering a Quesarrito.
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We thought foursquare was crap, and believed the design nerds flocking to Gowalla validated our attitude: medium.com/work-education/61…
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Design with the confidence of the designer who looked at the Ford Fiesta logo and said "Ship it!"
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iOS 10: Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button > Rest Finger to Open ✅
You're welcome.
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My father, a cancer patient, went missing in North Texas last night. We need help finding him: facebook.com/findmarkwilliam…
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Twitter & Facebook reached over 350K people with news of my missing dad. A single comment on FB led us to within 2 miles of his location.
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Which messaging service should you use?!
- Facebook: reads ur contacts and serves u ads
- WhatsApp: also Facebook, but shh!
- Signal: funded by WhatsApp guy that got religion
- Telegram: Russian, powered by crypto—fancy!
- Apple: ur messages may be out of order
What a time!
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We don't talk enough about how incredible @basecamp's 🔑Adminland is. It is a Settings design masterclass.
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Are you a 🤔 curious, 👀 attentive, and 🙌 motivated junior or mid-level designer interested in growing your career? I am looking for a full-time Design Associate interested in branding and product design for early-stage companies. 1/
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Soooo, uh yeah. Here's a Magic: The Gathering card creator for Figma. figma.com/c/file/77343949718…
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Yesterday my daughter told me her class had determined they could skirt the school’s content filtering by loading URLs through Google Slides.
Just got a text from the school to let me know that Chrome books have been collected until further notice.
😂
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1. Run as outsider
2. Win
3. Realize cluelessness
4. Hire insiders
nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/po…
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It has been a privilege to run design sprints for over 30 startups the past few years. I’m excited to be working with @rsg to bring these processes to a new generation of early-stage companies.
Today we are announcing a new form of investment that provides design sprints to seed-stage companies alongside every check we write.
formcapital.com
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Post COVID, many people will chose to co-work with friends nearby, rather than return to their office full-time.
I suspect we’ll see the emergence of a new type of third-place that is more than a Starbucks, but less than a WeWork.
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Designers: Do you have secret fonts that you don’t tell others about because you’re saving them for your own projects?
And if so, what are they?
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In the near future, more companies will have "work clubs" instead of offices: notably downsized studios where people work together in collaboration once or twice a week. The best companies will subsidize work-remotely solutions.
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Your periodic reminder that nobody drinks a milkshake better than Zuck.
Turns out API freeloaders and scrapers may be the least of Elmo's troubles. apps.apple.com/us/app/thread…
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Having done the WFH off/on for years, some things:
- make your bed
- get dressed
- walk / run / ride before work
- afternoon break / walk / siesta
- “re-center” before dinner / family
And if you work after dinner:
- don’t work where you sleep
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Ryanair has entered the chat.
the look of a man who might not have access to Air Force One in the future and will have to fly commercial
don't worry Eric, we have €9.99 fares next time you're in Europe
#Election2020
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The architecture of the Torchy's in Odessa, Texas actually makes me want to move to Odessa, Texas.
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Anonymous neighbor left us note implying we’ve left our Biden/Harris sign up too long.
Guess what? Congratulations, it was going to come down on the 21st, but you just gave it a time extension! 🎉🇺🇸
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I hope Reels was worth it, because after years of following interesting and creative artists, typographers, and illustrators, @instagram is cramming a bunch of barely clothed dancing “influencer” reels into my feed.
Super gross.
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been thinking a lot about LA and its growing influence on tech (@andrewchen taps this in his latest newsletter as well). while Miami, Austin, and others are getting the hype, LA may ultimately be the biggest winner in this latest balkanization of creative startups
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Purchase one pair of Snap Glasses and another pair will be donated to a Millennial in need.
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#SOAPBOX: Universal Heathcare would do more to encourage entrepreneurship and boost small businesses in America than any other government policy or incentive.
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been thinking a lot about Tony Hsieh lately…
profoundly sad how his story ended, yet he inspired so many founders a decade ago… he delivered happiness, and that's something we should all aspire to do again
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when this office was first opened the Hacker Way sign was often referenced as a metaphor as to what would happen to Facebook if it stopped innovating…a visceral reminder that you are always waiting to be replaced
I wonder how many who work in the newer buildings have seen this
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Spent the last 3 hours on a plane with no Wi-Fi. What a day to launch into.
Overjoyed for my team.
Sad for our industry.
Need some tacos.
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