Rumble

https://open.spotify.com/track/1GfBLbAhZUWdseuDqhocmn

Linda is a designer, creative director, and as her website says: &#39;Your friend in design.&#39;  Her story starts in small-town Georgia, and since she has had an illustrious career, from being a designer at companies like Mailchimp and Dropbox, to her time as an Art Director at UENO, and most recently leadership roles at Help Scout and Mux. Linda shared some of her most meaningful lessons, and how they have affected both her leadership style, and her personal approach to life. 

Episode 8 — Linda Eliasen: Bricks and Mortar — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/linda-eliasen-bricks-and-mortar

Dan is a designer, creative director and photographer based in London. He has had a fascinating story so far, from the early days of the world wide web, to being part of the early blogging scene, to becoming a prolific photographer. 
We talked about his path towards design and the creative field, how he found his way onto the internet, and how he always gravitates towards writing and teaching as a means to clarify his thinking.


Episode 10 — Dan Rubin: Sketching in Public — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/dan-rubin-sketching-in-public

A magical get-together of some lovely internet friends.

Kinference

Vika is a designer and co-founder of Super. In our conversation, we talked about the challenges and lessons from her early career, and some of her values and wisdom she likes to share with others now. Most notably, we covered her experience as one of the foundational Product Designers in Facebook&#39;s New York office, and how she and her co-founder Lindsay approach building, growing and leading Super. 

Episode 7 — Vika: Twelve Dropdowns in a Row — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/vika-twelve-dropdowns-in-a-row

Didier studied to be an economist before making a pivot into design. Since then, he has been a design lead at Flipboard and led a large part of the Uber design team. Most recently, he co-founded a fintech company in Paris called Bloks.
We spoke about the genesis of his career path and the big lessons that he’s learned along the way. Some of the notable topics we dug in to were: working on mobile apps in the early 2010s, how to deal with working at a company that is experiencing major adversity, and the challenges of getting off the hamster wheel to take a long sabbatical, and figuring out what to do afterwards.


Episode 18 — Didier Hilhorst: Mediocre at Best — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/didier-hilhorst-mediocre-at-best

Everett is a multi-talented creative who is currently on the publishing team at Stripe as the executive producer of films and brand content for Stripe Press and Works in Progress.
We talked about his path from East LA to the Bay Area and spoke about some of our shared formative experiences from reflections on our time at Facebook in the early 2010s. We dug into his perspectives as a generalist vs. being a specialist, and what the next creative challenges are that he wants to take on.


Episode 9 — Everett Katigbak: Pounding the Pavement — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/everett-katigbak-pounding-the-pavement

Josh is a digital product designer and prototyper, currently working at Humane. 
We talked about a ton of things. We went in depth about his extended periods of time spent at Apple and Instagram. Weaved into this, he shared how he thinks about prototyping, and how he draws the relationship between his acting education and design.


Episode 22 — Joshua Dickens: Big in Japan — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/joshua-dickens-big-in-japan

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/maya-gold-patterson-fairy-god-dad

Halli is an entrepreneur, creative, design leader and musician from Reykjavik, Iceland. He previously founded and led UENO. Currently, he is building 1000 ramps in Iceland, releasing music under the name Önnu Jónu Son and just launched his restaurant, bar, and mini theater Anna Jóna.
We spoke for a short period of time during the happy hour of the first day of Kinference in Brooklyn. We talked about his experience being a recovering alcoholic, cover some meaningful stories about what drives him, and what projects he is focusing on next.


Episode 13 — Haraldur Thorleifsson: Live at Kinference — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/haraldur-thorleifsson-live-at-kinference

https://full-stack-whatever.simplecast.com/episodes/andrea-mignolo-the-winding-path-FdduYF0k

Jessica is a lettering artist and author who has created custom lettering artwork for established brands, films, classic books, postage stamps, and so much more. She’s traveled the world speaking at creative conferences and colleges and has befriended innumerable internet strangers while navigating the depths of social media.
Most recently, she wrote and illustrated her latest children’s book: “Who Will U Be?”. We talked a bit about her career and the meaningful moments within it. And we chatted about befriending tons of people by being extremely online and the differences in connecting with people nowadays versus the past decade and a half.


Episode 16 — Jessica Hische: Feeding the Beast — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/jessica-hische-feeding-the-beast

Matthew is a designer, entrepreneur and a co-founder of Letterboxd, a social media site for film discussion and discovery. 
We talked about his path, how he bootstrapped and incubated Letterboxd, and how he has approached leading the company, and evolving the product, in the decade-plus that it has been around.


Episode 14 — Matthew Buchanan: Growing Slowly — Full Stack Whatever

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/matthew-buchanan-growing-slowly

My mind is inspired and my heart is full. #kinference

Looks like we keep continue to launch e-comm sites like they're creative student projects.

Meanwhile they lack a ton of site performance and are leaving double digit % of conversion on the table because they are terrible to navigate.

Who knew that in 2023 Skrillex would mash together all of my favourite aspects of music while clubbing in my late teens...

https://open.spotify.com/track/1GfBLbAhZUWdseuDqhocmn

What is up, CV fam!

This week, I'm excited to share a conversation with the inimitable Linda Eliasen, recorded at the beautiful Friends Work Here space.

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/linda-eliasen-bricks-and-mortar

Episode 10! This week: the inimitable Dan Rubin.

Topics were: his path towards design, how he found his way onto the internet and always gravitates towards writing and teaching to clarify his thinking.

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/dan-rubin-sketching-in-public

Some early snaps from Kinference.

https://shoebox.photo/s/65d001i2dva1

🎙️ Episode 7 is out, with Vika, co-founder and CPO at Super.

We talked about her early career and her path into design, the big lessons she learned, and the values and principles she and her co-founder Lindsay are building Super with.

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/vika-twelve-dropdowns-in-a-row

For your long weekend consideration: @hilhorst  is an economist-turned-designer, known for his work at Flipboard and Uber.

We talked about leading through adversity, how to figure out what's next, etc.

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/didier-hilhorst-mediocre-at-best

This week's episode: multi-talented creative Everett Katigbak!

We talk about his path from East LA to the Bay Area, generalist vs. specialist, early days of designing Facebook's brand and culture. 

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/everett-katigbak-pounding-the-pavement

Anyone have any Bay Area portrait photographer recommendations? I get this question regularly and don't know who to refer.

Two new absolute fire episodes for your consideration: 

Episode 22, Josh Dickens: https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/joshua-dickens-big-in-japan
Episode 23, Maya Gold Patterson: https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/maya-gold-patterson-fairy-god-dad

This week: a very personal conversation with Halli, during a happy hour at Kinference. 

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/haraldur-thorleifsson-live-at-kinference

One does not simply... redesign a flagship app. 👀

Massively proud of everyone involved in a project that could only be done in very few companies. 🧡

This week: Andrea Mignolo!

Andrea has had a winding path into tech, design, and leadership coaching. This one is full of career tidbits for someone with a non-traditional background.

https://full-stack-whatever.simplecast.com/episodes/andrea-mignolo-the-winding-path-FdduYF0k

What's up, y'all! Happy Monday. ☕️

I'm humbled and excited to share a conversation I had with @jessicahische about the differences between being a human online now vs. a decade ago.

Please enjoy!

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/jessica-hische-feeding-the-beast

This week: co-founder and creator of Letterboxd, Matthew Buchanan!

We talked about his path, founding Letterboxd and growing slowly.

https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/matthew-buchanan-growing-slowly

@andy If your comment is too long it doesn't post but your app doesn't tell you that 👀

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