Home sick.
Only lived in NYC for about 3 months but we connected hard, so much that I feel home sick while away. Walking down her streets the other day, say this street art, felt pretty on point.
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Cracked self portrait.
Found this full sized cracked mirror on the sidewalk while walking though downtown NYC.
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Decided to cash in an all but forgotten GC and give in to curiosity, purchasing a pair of Meta Ray Bans. Way back to the hotel, saw someone wearing them, asked how she liked them. Turns out she works at Meta. Viewing this as the universe’s thumbs up that it’s gonna be ok.
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NYC Public Library.
“Peter, at 1:40 this afternoon at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition. It blew books from shelves at twenty feet away. Scared the socks off some poor librarian.”
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Having breakfast on 35th St, saw a man on a bike crash into a man walking in the street. They stood up, made sure each other was ok, hugged, fist bumped and went their own ways. Kindness and care still exist, sometimes in the most unlikely of places.
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Reading the Fall edition of Fast Company on the train to NYC, connected with this line in their gen AI article …
“Faced with an all-you-can-eat buffet of words, images, and sounds, we taste everything yet savor nothing. “
Feels about right.
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Taken in Iceland a few weeks back, I remember it being really cold and me being annoyed by camera settings … think I accidentally nailed the “annoyance” vibe. Flattering? No. Makes me smile? Yes.
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Rather than summarizing my email, would love to see a support based AI /app integration. Imagine a browser that could auto detect when content isn’t loading and tell you what settings in the app to modify to get things to render properly. Totally be down with that.
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Spending the day archiving data off of a work laptop that belonged to a great person and good friend that died from cancer a few weeks back. It’s really fucking weird. He created all of this content, organized it across his desktop. It hasn’t been touched since he last touched it. Messed up feeling.
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A big fan of hybrid working from work / life balance to attracting amazing talent. Read this recently, never thought about it so granularly but it makes sense.
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Sorry for all the repeat pics showing up, going away, showing up … Trying to sort something out between Glass.photo and Micro.blog.
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When Twitter broke, I landed on Mastodon as a replacement. Onboarding was a little rough as was wrapping my head around the fediverse. Then Bluesky showed up, felt like a solid option but was missing one thing … people. That looks to be changing. Going to give it another go.
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And this is why you always want a quality lens hood. Luckily this little fella took the brunt of it and the camera is fine. Iceland 1 - Leica Q3 0
#LeicaQ3 #Leica
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“Someday I’ll be gone and you’ll be me, asking yourself this same question … ‘how will you carry on this legacy?'”
Heard some shit news today, was feeling pretty down and this, for reasons unknown, helped. As a fan of the the quality, craftsmanship and artistry of Leica, the video delivers. Maybe that’s part of it, too. A beautiful execution to be appreciated, even when things go south IRL.
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Some throwback photos of office art from yesteryear. This is what happens when you find a conference room with two tape dispensers or a series of windows that have blinds that refuse to stay straight … and then add designers into the mix.
#Photography #OfficeLife
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Going down a Prince rabbit hole on the YouTube and the idea of him being on Hot Ones just hit me and I can’t shake it.
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This morning, I woke up to a gentle jingling sound … which happened to be Juno discovering the zipper on my hoodie. Belated #Caturday
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Every year, we say “never forget” yet I think it’s inevitable that we will … but not today, not this year. 🍎
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An afternoon spent at the local wine bar for a South American wine tasting followed by some mochi doughnuts … one hell of a good Sunday.
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I am constantly reminded of how amazing our UX team is, both in quality of work and character. If you are a hiring manager, I can’t stress enough the importance of putting effort into the hiring process. Getting the right people opens the door to moments of delight and joy.
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Dramatically lit Juno is very dramatic indeed. Bit of a late #Caturday post.
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Got to see my first Premier League football match tonight in Philly … even managed to be the team I support, Liverpool FC. Amazing experience seeing Mo Salah score and lead the reds to a 2-1 win over Arsenal.
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Great brunch at the local pub. Good food. Good beer. Good people.
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Took some internetting and more than a little trial and error but I have Ubuntu successfully running on a Surface Pro 9 w/ touchscreen support. Always liked the hardware, just not the OS so much. Hoping it drives usage but at the very least, I get to learn something new.
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Have it stuck in my head that I need to try installing Ubuntu on my unused Surface Pro 9. Feeling the need for something more stripped down and clean. 🤞🏻