George Penston

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Product Design leader who digs design, movies, and video games. Attempting to make my dent in the universe. #CureFA
websitehttps://gpenston.webflow.io/
Solve the problems you have, not the problems you wish for.
#UXDesign #ProductManagement
The carpet! #Picard
*chefkiss*

People are saying mean things about Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav making $39 million last year (and $203 million the year before), but he earns every penny of it with brilliant business decisions like:
* repositioning CNN as light beer Fox News
* shelving the finished Batgirl movie
* greenlighting a 70+ hour Harry Potter remake nobody wanted
* inexplicably renaming HBO

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-david-zaslav-pay-39-million-2022-1235568306/

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay Revealed

Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav’s pay package topped $39 million in 2022, down considerably from the staggering figure he hit in the year prior, thanks to a massive $203 million sto…

Variety
Great roundup for services you’re prob paying for but didn’t now it came with free games. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/free-video-games/
Free Video Games You Can Download Right Now

Plenty of services want to give you video games for free, and we’re here to tell you where to find them.

Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World
Please update your memes to the most recent version. #Startrek #Picard
Readwise Reader is the Best Read Later Service for Apple News Subscribers https://birchtree.me/blog/readwise-reader-is-the-best-read-later-service-for-apple-news-subscribers/
Readwise Reader is the Best Read Later Service for Apple News+ Subscribers

I recently started giving Apple News another shot. I'm an Apple One subscriber, so I figured why the hell not, I'm paying for it, after all. My issue is that my reading habits are based around RSS and a read later service (Readwise). Personally, I want to find things to

Birchtree

Good lord I’m so glad I don’t do UX at a company whose core success metric is how long people people use our software.

The general directive I get is “make it nice, but as quick as possible, and if you can do it completely invisibly and automatically, do that.”

https://overcast.fm/+QN1pcYbM0/16:42

Spotify’s redesign, streaming boxes suck, and Gigi Sohn withdraws from FCC nomination — The Vergecast

The Verge’s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss Spotify’s changes within its app, what happening this week at Twitter, Gigi Sohn withdrawing her nomination for FCC commissioner, and a whole lot more. Further reading: The Cybertruck wiper does not appear to extend Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube Spotify is going big on video podcasts After layoffs, SiriusXM looks to star-studded podcasts Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th All the streaming boxes suck now How a single engineer brought down Twitter Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire The FTC’s Twitter privacy investigations have ramped up since Elon Musk’s takeover Hey, where’s the Twitter Blue revenue sharing Elon Musk promised a month ago? Tesla under investigation after Model Y steering wheels fall off Congress rolls out new bill allowing nationwide TikTok ban Gigi Sohn withdraws her nomination for President Joe Biden’s FCC…

Great news! I Think You Should Leave is coming back on May 30 https://www.avclub.com/i-think-you-should-leave-season-3-premiere-may-30-back-1850211208
I Think You Should Leave is coming back on May 30

Netflix announced the third-season premiere date for Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin's beloved sketch series earlier tonight

The A.V. Club

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