I know I’m jinxing it by even saying so, but the fact that our brand-new puppy Zev Bialy Costanza has not had a single accident in the house feels gratifying and exciting. We brought her home on Wednesday from the two darling corgis who gave birth to
Lemonade almost three years ago.
Browsing around for my favorite blog post for
Fabruary, I just ran into Lou Plummer’s
What Were Your First Seven Jobs? I say “browsing” but I was really just going through only his archive. I knew when I decided to participate in
Robert Birming’s Fabruary that the post I would submit as my favorite would be something written by Lou.
There’s a reason I keep thinking Millennials are the new Boomers, and that reason is me. Here are some thoughts on how I finally came to welcome AI as a friendly member of my UX toolkit.
Yesterday, as I was going through what seemed like the most severe after-lunch dip in recent memory, I logged on to ADPList to meet a designer from Denmark. It’s miraculous, the effect unexpected kindness can have on the body. After 30 minutes, I skipped out of my meeting booth ready to take on the rest of the afternoon, which I did, and it rocked.
Here’s a summary of her booking request:
In a fortnight, I’ll be celebrating one year of employment at Gerimedica, the healthcare technology provider I was keen to join last spring. Coincidentally, I’m working on one of my professional development goals right now: turn coworker feedback into concrete goals for the second quarter. It seems a fitting moment to reflect on the past year as a whole.
As expected, healthtech is the bomb diggity I’ve never made a secret of this: Gerimedica had me at hello.
My coworker Mattia is a gem; a man of deep thought and good ideas. He asked me today if I knew of any writing on the topic of language learning and inclusion.
One trait common in Dutch speakers (at least in the Randstad) is that, as soon as a non-native speaker joins the conversation, they will switch to English. I can speak only for myself: it’s an act of inclusion, of liberation.
