Brad Lauster 🧢
@bradlau.net
Design and Product Director working on health, well-being, and fitness. Food and outdoors enthusiast. NY guy doing SF things. bradlau.net
Once again, I am begging @caltrain.com to establish quiet cars
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Once again, I am begging @caltrain.com to establish quiet cars
“vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part”
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The insidious way things get worse is deliberate, rewarded optimization. These steps made Hotweels measurably cheaper (or improved margins), with no measurable loss of quality. Because the quality was hard to quantify, or noisy, or deemed low value by a secondary metric (no sales impact).
July 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The insidious way things get worse is deliberate, rewarded optimization. These steps made Hotweels measurably cheaper (or improved margins), with no measurable loss of quality. Because the quality was hard to quantify, or noisy, or deemed low value by a secondary metric (no sales impact).
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If a system can enable victimisation, sooner or later it will be used to efficiently victimise.
June 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If a system can enable victimisation, sooner or later it will be used to efficiently victimise.
Every company says it wants holistic, coherent experiences, but almost all of them align designers with specific products. I’ve spent so much of my career fixing this problem.
I don’t think designers should be assigned to product teams. Sure they can and will work on product problems but they should be assigned to strategic initiatives and programs. This assures that there is holistic systems thinking and coherence across the entire experience.
June 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Every company says it wants holistic, coherent experiences, but almost all of them align designers with specific products. I’ve spent so much of my career fixing this problem.
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I’ve heard the song “Norwegian Wood” easily over 100 times in the last 50 years and never once did I think the narrator was setting fire to her house at the end
a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is holding his hands to his face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck is holding his hands to his face .
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May 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’ve heard the song “Norwegian Wood” easily over 100 times in the last 50 years and never once did I think the narrator was setting fire to her house at the end
It is my dream to see Diana Ross perform Upside Down
The Stern Grove Festival lineup is here 👀 who are you most excited to see and why is it Diana Ross?
April 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It is my dream to see Diana Ross perform Upside Down
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Dreaming of a world where I am not constantly being sold to.
April 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Dreaming of a world where I am not constantly being sold to.
Anyone recognize this keyboard? Some helpful keyboard enthusiasts on Reddit have convinced me that I can build one for myself.
March 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Anyone recognize this keyboard? Some helpful keyboard enthusiasts on Reddit have convinced me that I can build one for myself.
How are you all cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon? I see some iOS apps, but I’d rather use something web or MacOS-based. Any tips?
March 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
How are you all cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon? I see some iOS apps, but I’d rather use something web or MacOS-based. Any tips?
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A huge problem with organizations is that there is often an obsession with the information architecture (the org chart) and no one deals with the interaction design (how people communicate and collaborate in order to achieve coherent goals).
March 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A huge problem with organizations is that there is often an obsession with the information architecture (the org chart) and no one deals with the interaction design (how people communicate and collaborate in order to achieve coherent goals).
Tapestry has completely changed (and improved!) how I access my social follows, Reddit, YouTube, and RSS feeds. With today's update, you can show a different timeline in each window on your iPad. An 11" iPad can show 3 windows and iPad Mini can show 2. (cc @iconfactory.bsky.social)
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Tapestry has completely changed (and improved!) how I access my social follows, Reddit, YouTube, and RSS feeds. With today's update, you can show a different timeline in each window on your iPad. An 11" iPad can show 3 windows and iPad Mini can show 2. (cc @iconfactory.bsky.social)
Picked up The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman from the library and this quote appears right after the dedication: 😅
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, 'What the hell good would that do?
- Ronnie Shakes
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, 'What the hell good would that do?
- Ronnie Shakes
February 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Picked up The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman from the library and this quote appears right after the dedication: 😅
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, 'What the hell good would that do?
- Ronnie Shakes
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, 'What the hell good would that do?
- Ronnie Shakes
I'm at the "getting rejection emails for jobs I didn't even apply to" stage of my job hunt. Anyone hiring a design director?
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm at the "getting rejection emails for jobs I didn't even apply to" stage of my job hunt. Anyone hiring a design director?
I'd planned to try out my new iPad Mini setup in a coffee shop today, but the rain in San Francisco is just too much. Instead, I'll stay home and watch Interstellar.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'd planned to try out my new iPad Mini setup in a coffee shop today, but the rain in San Francisco is just too much. Instead, I'll stay home and watch Interstellar.
This is the share menu for a PDF on iPadsOS. Is there any way to force the Files app to show up in this list of apps that I can share to? Why is Apple trying to prevent me from saving PDFs from my iPad? 
February 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is the share menu for a PDF on iPadsOS. Is there any way to force the Files app to show up in this list of apps that I can share to? Why is Apple trying to prevent me from saving PDFs from my iPad? 
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Kicking myself for not making my own pizza sauce sooner. Much better than store-bought, and it only took two minutes. 🍕
February 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Kicking myself for not making my own pizza sauce sooner. Much better than store-bought, and it only took two minutes. 🍕
If you like jazz, you should listen to the Severance: Defiant Jazz playlist on Apple Music. It's outstanding. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Severance: Defiant Jazz on Apple Music
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January 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
If you like jazz, you should listen to the Severance: Defiant Jazz playlist on Apple Music. It's outstanding. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
I wish the Bluesky app wasn't trash on iPad.
January 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I wish the Bluesky app wasn't trash on iPad.
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The "personal computer revolution" (1977-1999, roughly) lead us away from these critiques, and it's interesting to see how these 70-year-old ideas are more relevant now than ever.
*Those notions are 70 years old and yet they're also very "Big Tech," very surveillance-capitalist, and very AI-anxiety
January 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The "personal computer revolution" (1977-1999, roughly) lead us away from these critiques, and it's interesting to see how these 70-year-old ideas are more relevant now than ever.
Ok, I joined pixelfed. Maybe I'll see you over there if you wanna see me, my cat, the dead whale I saw recently, or my Green Apple Books toque. pixelfed.social/bradlau
Brad Lauster 🧢 (@bradlau@pixelfed.social)
2 Posts, 4 Following, 0 Followers · Health and wellness UX. Food and outdoors enthusiast. NY guy doing SF things.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ok, I joined pixelfed. Maybe I'll see you over there if you wanna see me, my cat, the dead whale I saw recently, or my Green Apple Books toque. pixelfed.social/bradlau
I just learned that Trader Joe's has discontinued their mango shave cream. I've been using that product for at least 14 years!
January 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I just learned that Trader Joe's has discontinued their mango shave cream. I've been using that product for at least 14 years!
lose-lose-lose
Folks at MIT Sloan looked at multiple studies of return to office (RTO) mandates & found they are lose-lose-lose. No reward from Wall Street for “getting tough,” an actual decrease in productivity & revenue, and loss of top talent. youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY...
RTO Mandates: Hard Truths for Leaders
After Amazon imposed a strict return-to-office policy that takes effect in January 2025, other companies followed suit. But are RTO mandates a way to boost productivity and charm Wall Street - or just a way to lose your best performers? In this short video, Brian Elliott, who has studied RTO mandate
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January 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
lose-lose-lose