👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
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Acknowledge your privilege, be compassionate (to others, and to yourself), and consciously do the best that you can to affect a positive result on any, and every, scale.
A snapshot of someone’s life on Instagram tells you nothing about that person’s actual life. That’s how we should treat all those things: As pure entertainment, not as inspiration for life.
’Why Am I Not Rich & Famous?’ the Delusion of Our Times
Usually if I learned a concept a long time ago, it means that I’ve lost touch with what it’s like to learn it for the first time today. So running an explanation by a few people who don’t already know the concept helps to catch incorrect assumptions I’ve made.
Patterns in confusing explanations
Step one is to create space between emotion and action. It’s OK to have fear and trust issues. But it’s not OK to let them hold you back.
Don’t Wait to Train Your Successor
People who practice self-compassion treat themselves with kindness, care, and concern in the face of negative experiences.
Self-handicapping: when we avoid effort to protect our self-esteem
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People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers—even though intimate and loving relationships with their families are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.
But they often lie; elite opinion often overrules expert opinion, especially on topics with strong moral colors. And elites are selected far more for prestige than expertise.
Workers aren’t just looking for higher pay, more time off, or more days at home (though those things would surely help in the short term). They’re actually questioning the whole meaning of the daily grind.
The Biggest Truth Most Leaders Misunderstand About ‘the Great Resignation’
The regrets that will trouble us the most are not the mistakes or errors we made, but rather the actions we failed to take.
The psychology of regret: how inaction affects our sense of self
The choice and successful pursuit of a profession is but one tool for achieving your purpose. But without a purpose, life can become hollow.
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The future is drafted by people doing work they don’t have to do. You need to be one of those people—and hire them, too. There is too much wondering and talking, and too little doing. So don’t talk: do. Care indiscriminately. If you’re willing to actually do the work, you’ll have more influence than those who simply do their jobs.
Pay transparency applies only to the numbers. However, there are cases where various factors determine why an individual’s salary can be higher. It could be something simple like geography, cost of living, or working conditions — to something more complex, private and specific to an individual.
A future where engineers, executives and PMs make the bulk of the conceptual decisions because the barriers to entry when it comes to making design decisions—in the form of craft skills—have all but been removed.
A failure to identify the true costs of something you’re pursuing, with too much emphasis on financial costs while ignoring the emotional price that must be paid to win a reward.
When you feel lost in ambiguity, ask a different question. The perfect question is a key to clarity. It unlocks truth and opens minds.
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Jaycelle partnered with Nature’s Apothecary to promote their Tea Starter Kit. They’ve got nice visual design on the box, leaflet, and on the tea containers too.
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When the choice is to go with gut instinct or conduct research, they often choose gut instinct. Conducting research takes time and costs money and resources. Gut instinct is immediate and has no associated costs.
In a lot of cases, obsolescence is triggered by external changes in a world in which things are connected: when one evolves the others have to evolve as well.
Conversely, when I see programmers not launching features quickly, the issue is often overengineering. Or when engineers do launch quickly but the quality is bad, then the issue is usually under-engineering or sloppy code.
Your answer will help you identify what has to happen to get to the outcome you desire. And your answer will be rooted in your values. All of these components give you agency and a kind of control.
Without a dedicated designer on the scrum team, what you have is a software engineering team and, while that team will absolutely deliver a user experience, it will not be of the same level of quality without a designer’s input.
