Good management balances on the edge of being deep enough in the work to support it without inserting yourself in every decision. It’s about guidance, not hand holding.

Coming from being a hacker and a maker, this is so, so hard. Your natural instinct is to *help fix it*.

Sometimes though, your helping isn’t helping.

If a Herzog film was instead focused on profound love, curiosity, and beauty, you’d wind up with Fire of Love. One of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time.

Also, Miranda July is a treasure.

https://youtu.be/kz95Xjd3l00

Anyone else have tons of Instagram spam from accounts named like karen383749273? They don’t even have link bait; I can’t figure it out.

Maybe it’s just clout bots?

It’s a little ridiculous how good this track is. Impossible not to bop your head.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4W1VDzvrBBG0lZvC221Qh5?si=g7e_MoudTUGs-se4q4AJPg&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZEVXbxhNaTCDCPMj

If anything, these layoffs should dull the sparkle that working in tech may have for folks, for better or for worse.

To borrow from the sage Kanika Tolver, “marry the dream; date the job.”