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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Periodic office hours are tremendously helpful as well.

    Block an hour, once or twice a week, for people to come by an ask you (and your team) about literally anything they want. And open it to everyone at your organization. Have your team stop answering one-off questions and tell people to bring it to office hours.

    Team leads and tpms should help with logistics, messaging and hand-slapping.










  • I’m a liberal WA resident, and there’s entirely too much influence here by big tech for me to trust national legislation regarding privacy baselines coming from legilators based within my state.

    This is the sort of area where I’d like to see legislation forged from a partnership between a fiercely left-leaning state that supports individual rights (OR? MA?) and a similar libertarian-leaning right-wing state that shares similar beliefs on individual liberties (WY? MT?).



  • American audiences are no longer the sole demographic for Hollywood. The audience is global, and high budget films are planned with that in mind. The lowest common denominator is the result.

    During his Academy Award speech, Cord Jefferson (who won for the American Fiction screenplay) argued for more low-budget films at the cost of a single big-budget mess. More movies means more types of stories, allowing more niches to be filled. It also creates more industry jobs, and deepens the bench with talent development.

    The best way to come up with good ideas is to figure out how to have a lot of ideas in the first place.


  • The Production Design category had me scratching my head about why Barbie didn’t take it until I remembered the Mattel headquarters. That was one part that felt under-thought. Every square inch of Poor Things was a feast for the eyes.

    The real stinker award was Best Animated Short going to a wish.com Christmas Truce story based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono songs about how war sucks. All of the other nominees were better films.