Stoic Designer
Michael SchofieldCool-headed, practical thinking to help put the real work of design and engineering into perspective. Craft virtuously and keep your shit together.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 63 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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Vigil #2 • Product Engineering and Product Management are Consolidating
Product Engineering1 and Product Management are consolidating. Product engineers who are not proactively making strategic product decisions about what to make and why - will obsolesce. So, too, product managers who aren’t building the thing...
Lesson 90 • Efficiency Washing
Summer’s so far been defined by a weak job market machine-gun riddled by layoffs - citing efficiencies1, with thanks2 to AI3. We likely see this language throughout our day work without giving it much thought. Improve load time by making th...
Lesson 89 • Design Systems that Survive Error
Investor sentiment is at its most pessimistic in three decades. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index has hit its highest levels this century. Google just lost a landmark antitrust case over its ad tech dominance, which is not something I t...
Lesson 88 • Quit
The moment is quiet when craft becomes obligation. It is the capital entropy of art: hobbies trend toward jobs.
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It is subtle at first. We show up. Lapses of motivation are compensated by guilt. The sen...
Lesson 87 • Bright-side OS
I am late, but I couldn’t write you about Stoicism — not this week. My tolerance for death-cult realism (“memento mori”) is a mite low. It’s been a long January, and I’ve benchmarked and kept my shit together like a champ - but today I need...
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V.P., Engineering. Librarian. Janeite. I make an award-winning, fully cast, low-fantasy mystery podcast called "The Thief," and I write about engineering, storytelling, and my experiences trying to make my fiction pay for itself.
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