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The halvening is nigh

My shitcoins right now:

We takin' off

My sensible co-worker:
why don’t you just DCA eth or btc like a normal person

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The myth of anonymity

Like how on earth is “anonymous feedback” supposed to work in a tiny team setting?

Do we have to write each other’s feedback to obfuscate the original author? Or do we all tell ChatGPT to do a rewrite so there’s just one voice?

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Terrible human being award

We recently hired a couple of people (who were already working for us) who were let go from their previous agency.

The douchebag who let them go tried to invoke a poaching clause.

You’ve already fired them and now you’re trying to stop them from getting a new job?

It’s not as if they quit. YOU. FIRED. THEM.

What kind of a next level salty tool are you really?

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Loss inspo

“You’re too talented to just be maintaining a website. You should realize your potential… elsewhere.”

Was not expecting to hear this today, but it’s probably something I needed to hear for awhile now.

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Trusting the process

Sometimes we create things that seem like rubbish at the time.

But strangely, they come in handy and swoop in for a creative rescue a few weeks and/or months down the road.

It’s a fine line between psychic powers and a mental illness of compulsive hoarding.

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Bottom of the barrel

I was so close to sending this back to the rando cold email (from someone with arguably one of the most punchable faces I’ve seen this year) trying to sell his amazing SEO services to help fix our topical authority:

Spoiler: no one really knows how topical authority works
Screenie from https://ahrefs.com/blog/topical-authority/
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Small wins

I lasted 11 days into 2023 without wanting to stick an axe into anyone from the other team at work.

It’s going to be a long month.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Petty

Over two decades in tech and I’m still running into insecure manbabies who are petty and whiny as they are unkind. Just to be fair, I’ve run into the female equivalent as well but that’s currently at a grand total of one (maybe two?).

These people with small crayon energy ending up in management roles are the reason why we absolutely cannot have nice things in the world.

We collectively suck and need to do better.

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Designers and developers have one thing in common

And that is their collective hate towards people in marketing. I finally understand why.

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Conversations with another CD

SY: Design skills are translatable, just need to have a lot of common sense AND always design with a purpose
SY: Design is not guessing

Me: I threw the designer’s credibility out the door when she said she’s pretty good about designing without content

Note: also the same man who told me to straight up lower my expectations ?