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Design systems are an incredibly positive evolution of the technology industry. They allow more people to contribute to the creation of software without having to be an artist or master craftsman. A more productive and more accessible industry will enable more companies to produce more products that are cheaper and more reliable.

Adam Michela, Yes, design systems will replace design jobs

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Feedback is a gift. When you actively welcome opinions, advice, and even criticism into your work, you open yourself up to learning something new and making better decisions. The challenge is when opinions come in at the wrong time (when it is too late to be helpful), at the wrong level (discussing a tree while completely missing the forest), or with the wrong context (proposing an impossible change that lacks the background for why a decision were made)

Julie Zhuo, from The Looking Glass: Avoiding the Camel

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Wordless prayer... is humble, simple, lowly, prayer in which we experience our total dependence on God and our awareness that we are in God. Wordless prayer is not an effort to "get anywhere," for we are already there (in God's presence). It is just that we are not sufficiently conscious of our being there.

William Shannon, "Silence on Fire"

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Korean-style soy sauce chicken 닭 간장 조림

Ingredients:

A whole raw chicken or whichever parts you want. My mom uses half a chicken usually.

Carrot, potato, whatever veggies

2 tbsp Mirin 미린

1/2 tsp pepper

2 tbsp sugar

A little sesame seed oil

Green onion

4 tbsp Kikkoman soy sauce

3-6 cloves of garlic

1/2 tsp ginger

Put a little (~1 tbsp) water and the chicken into a large saucepan on medium heat until the chicken is about half cooked

Add the roughly cut carrots, potato, other veggies, to the pot. Add more soy sauce if necessary and boil until done. If too salty, add a bit of sugar to taste.

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Types of meat used in Korean cuisine

Seolleongtang 설농탕: mixture of tripe, leg bone and beef (round top or franksteak)

Gomtang 곰탕: pure bone soup (the knee, 무릅)

Sagolgook 사골국: kneebone soup, just bone and water

Oxtail soup 꼬리곰탕: oxtail (곰 means simmered for long time)

Bulgogi 불고기: sirloin or ribeye steak (slice thinly, chucksteak is also ok)

Flower ??? 꽃등심: rose 구이 rib eye steak or tenderloin

Pork meat 돼지고기: any pork loin

Pork belly 삼겹살: fatty pork belly, like thick slices of uncured bacon

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Eggplant banchan side dish 가지 나물

steam Asian eggplant

chop up / rip apart to cool

add

sugar

soy sauce

sesame oil

vinegar

black pepper

miced garlic

chopped green onion

to taste.

Chill or eat warm, will last 5-7 days in th fridge

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Cold cucumber soup  오이 냉국

1/2 English cucumber, julienned

1 stalk of green onion 파

Little soy sauce

Black pepper

Sugar

Vinegar

Optional: a little sesame seed oil 참기름, maybe a little salt

Once the above tastes right, add cold noodle soup broth 냉면육수 or water

(the above is the same recipe for cold cucumber salad, just without the water)

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Sundubu jjigae recipe - 순두부 찌개

Broth: dried shrimp (little ones), dried anchovy 멸치, kelp 다시마, white onion, 1 clove garlic

Spicy paste flavoring:

3 tbsp red pepper flakes 고추가루

1 tbsp red pepper paste 구추장

2 tbsp soup soy sauce 국가간장

1 tbsp garlic 마늘

1 tbsp cooking alcohol 청주

1 tbsp 3 crabs fish sauce 액젓

black pepper 후추 to taste

Put the soft tofu 순두부 into boiling water in a separate pot and cut into 4 chunks.

Put seafood/meat/mushroom into the pot with the soft tofu 순두부. 

Add the spicy paste to taste. Add egg after taking off the stove.

If you use raw pork, prepare it ahead of time in a marinade:

a clove of minced garlic

chopped green onion

black pepper

sesame seed oil

soy sauce

sugar

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How to Trust Yourself: Insights from 6 Top Women Leaders in Design & Tech - Bridge

On April 19, 2016, Designer Fund hosted the fifth Women in Design event at Medium’s office in downtown San Francisco. Historic buildings painted a stunning background for the evening, during which top designers were treated to an intimate look at the inner worlds of six prominent female leaders in design and tech. Maria Molfino, women’s Read more…

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Here's How To Use A Bullet Journal For Better Mental Health

A way to keep it all together when things are falling apart.

Thorough example of how to use bullet journaling for tracking and reflection, not just to-dos.

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72 quotes about design and creativity - InVision Blog

We asked some of our favorite creatives to share the quotations that have stuck with them throughout their careers.

“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations. We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.” 

–Tim Brown

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Every successful relationship is successful for the same exact reasons

I asked 1,500 people for relationship advice, and kept getting the same answers.

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"Here’s the key: if you want to follow through on something, stop thinking. Shut down the conversation that goes on in your head before it starts. Don’t take the bait. Stop arguing with yourself. Make a very specific decision about something you want to do and don’t question it. By very specific, I mean things like: I will work out tomorrow at 6 AM or I will only point out the things my employee does right or I will say at least one thing in the next meeting."

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“Wild” by Cheryl Strayed -  favorite quotes

As I read Cheryl Strayed's book "Wild" it really moved me and affected me because her personal tragedy felt so real. Below are some of my favorite sentences from the book.

Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.  

Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I'd see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realized in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I would be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.  

My old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. The real me was beneath that, pulsing under all the things I used to think I knew.  

Without my mother, we weren't what we'd been; we were four people floating separately among the flotsam of our grief, connected by only the thinnest rope. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please. 

I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again. But the truth was, at least so far, I was consumed only with my most immediate and physical suffering. Since I'd begun hiking, the struggles of my life had only fluttered occasionally through my mind. I'd imagined endless meditations upon sunsets or while staring out across pristine mountain lakes. I'd thought I'd weep tears of cathartic sorrow and restorative joy each day of my journey. Instead, I only moaned, and not because my heart ached.  

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my test, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.  

He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life--classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise. As I stood next to him, I had the feeling that any moment he'd reach for my hand and together we'd parachute off a cliff, laughing as we wafted gently down. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really--all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else. I had only just begun. I was three weeks into my hike, but everything in me felt altered. I lay in the water as long as I could without breathing, alone in a strange new land, while the actual world all around me hummed on.

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Why work doesn't happen at work

Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. He calls out the two main offenders (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make the workplace actually work.

...it's an incredibly disruptive thing to do to people -- to say, "Hey look, we're going to bring 10 people together right now and have a meeting. I don't care what you're doing, you've got to stop doing it, so you can have this meeting." I mean, what are the chances that all 10 people are ready to stop? What if they're thinking about something important, or doing important work?

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Companies often think of a one-hour meeting as a one-hour meeting, but that's not true, unless there's only one person. If there are 10 people, it's a 10-hour meeting, not a one-hour meeting. It's 10 hours of productivity taken from the rest of the organization to have this one-hour meeting, which probably should have been handled by two or three people talking for a few minutes. But instead, there's a long scheduled meeting, because meetings are scheduled the way software works, which is in increments of 15 minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour. You don't schedule an eight-hour meeting with Outlook; you can't. You can go 15 minutes or 30 minutes or 45 minutes or an hour. And so we tend to fill these times up when things should go really quickly.

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How better tech could protect us from distraction

How often does technology interrupt us from what we really mean to be doing? At work and at play, we spend a startling amount of time distracted by pings and pop-ups -- instead of helping us spend our time well, it often feels like our tech is stealing it away from us. Design thinker Tristan Harris offers thoughtful new ideas for technology that creates more meaningful interaction. He asks: "What does the future of technology look like when you're designing for the deepest human values?"

[Couchsurfing] set their goal as the need to create lasting, positive experiences and relationships between people who've never met before. And the most amazing thing about this was in 2007, they introduced a way to measure this... let's say you take two people who meet up... and then after they spend that time together, they ask both of them: How positive was your experience? Did you have a good experience with this person that you met? And they subtract from those positive hours the amount of time people spent on the website, because that's a cost to people's lives. Why should we value that as success? And what you were left with is something they refer to as "net orchestrated conviviality," or, really, just a net "Good Times" created. The net hours that would have never existed, had Couchsurfing not existed.

Can you imagine how inspiring it would be to come to work every day and measure your success in the actual net new contribution of hours in people's lives that are positive, that would have never existed if you didn't do what you were about to do at work today? Can you imagine a whole world that worked this way?

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A comic about a glorious undersea creature.

Amaze.