Words & Letters
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard Feynman
“Home sickness is a bit like sea sickness. You don’t know how awful it is until you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.”––Roald Dahl A little under the weather this week, but the show must go on. Enjoy the links, […]
As a design manager, I’ve looked at several hundred applications for open design roles over the last few months and I’ve noticed a series of painful missteps from the applicant pool.
or, How a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Came Together to Make Pretty Things with Computers During the first 30 days, I lost almost half my team. As the brand new manager, how am I supposed to recover from this? Did my presence, or the change I represented, cause this? What is going on. Eight months […]
Lessons from the real-world Noel Constant that I didn’t ask for The creative workplace is a peculiar place. In some ways its very different than other parts of the working world, and in some fundamental ways it’s not. Creatives (I know we hate this term) come from all angles. Some study at four-year colleges, others […]
You just finished version fourteen of your design. The Art Director (AD) has finally given his blessing and you have one more hurdle before this job is done. The Creative Director (CD) must give his final approval. He’s already seen versions of this along the way. It should be no problem, right? Every manager (also […]