Cap Watkins

@capwatkins
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Sr. Director of Product Design @ Lattice. Dog dad.
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Who wants one?
After years of wearing hats other people made, finally made my own.
I've been play-testing absolutely every twitter "replacement" (including Bluesky) and the general vibe I get is this: most former power-users want something exactly like Twitter but w/o the nazis and grifters. Bluesky is attempting to start conversations about federation now and users are not having it. They want a centralized platform w/a clear and consistently enforced TOS. Federation remains a very hard sell to the average person.

Someone asked me recently, what is one quality that is career limiting that many people don't realize is career limiting?

My answer? Being unable to deal with ambiguity. The more senior you get, the more there are is no right answer or plan figured out. That's your job.

Finally decided to drop buggy-as-all-heck Apple Music and move over to Spotify. Is there an easy way to move my entire library over (not just playlists)?
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A cool thing about @medium is that sometimes friends ask me "but what do you do about hate speech and racism etc, isn't that part so complicated" and it just... isn't!

Medium's rules are super simple: "We do not allow content that constitutes/promotes violence, harassment, or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity." that's the policy, and has been for years.

This is why I do not like Substack: they do not want to take responsibility for hate speech. Substack is a safe haven for racists, transphobes, homophobes, anti-vaxers, etc. and they condone it because they profit from it. https://www.tiktok.com/@decoderpod/video/7221602731998498094
TikTok - Make Your Day

I just legitimately said "back in my day" in a design meeting and oh my god what is happening to me.
Seriously can we arrest the RARE developers? Has the statute of limitations expired??