Michele Hansen
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Michele Hansen
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👩‍💻 CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io

📚 Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Expanded edition out now!)

Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside

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The joy a dog feels for their ball is one of the purest joys on this earth
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Picked this up in London last week and it’s fantastic. I loved his “Adventure History of France” and this is just as good (maybe better). Graham Robb somehow combines high scholarship with casual, fast-moving writing.

Word to the wise: definitely get it in print for ease of referencing the maps
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Found yet another Laravel friend on our England trip, this time in London — @danjohnson.xyz!
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Found another Laravel friend in England — this time in Stoke! @jbrooks.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Mini @larabelles.com meetup (plus a friend) in Cambridge! @zuzana-k.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Update: my onion seller costume!
October 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great idea from @robwalling.com at @microconf.com re: user research recruitment:

Use LLMs as part of your research process to find real people to talk to. Ex, “which subreddits have discussions about ,” then recruit from those places
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
On my way to @microconf.com EU! Looking forward to seeing everyone and giving a talk about — what else — talking to people
September 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The cat's out of the bag about the Room of Full of Dead Puppets at Laracon 2017...

listen to this week's bonus Sweet Hang episode of
@mostlytechnical.com for more 👀
September 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My misadventures in attempting to record LinkedIn videos continue...
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
this is amazing
September 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Late to the thread, but finally cold enough to break out my Bean slippers
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s decorative gourd season, m’fers
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
casually giving a skeleton a manicure
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
TIL the cloth on the back of an airplane seat/chair is called an “antimacassar”, named for Macassar hair oil that pretty much all men used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It stained fabrics easily, so these cloths could be removed and washed.

It’s also why sailor’s uniforms have neckerchiefs
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
What happened between 2019 and 2025 to cause a massive uptick in computer occupation-related unemployment?

The 174 changes that took effect in 2022.
September 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Section 174 made it 5x more expensive to hire tech workers. That’s a senseless policy *they* instituted and now they’re using the negative effects of their own policies to justify hurting immigrants. Disgusting all around
September 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I’m only three episodes into “Allo, Allo!” and I’ve already decided I’m going as an onion seller for Halloween
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I love this time of the year when I can just go outside a pluck a snack from the garden
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When life gives you brown bananas, make banana bread
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New duckie stickers have arrived just in time for @friendlyrb.com!
September 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Onto a book I’m confident I’m going to like after that disaster
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Come to watch videos from some great founders on why they’re in TinySeed…stay for shots of me in the background occasionally gesticulating wildly during my talk 😂

why am I doing what appears to be the Thriller dance during a talk on negotiations??

we ALL have questions
September 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
also it's now #1 in Marketing & Consumer Behavior!

But I genuinely *do not* understand how Amazon product rankings work. What's a subset, what's an umbrella, what's a side category? It's been #1 in Consumer Behavior, #1 in Market Research, #1 in Market Research Business
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Raspberries are starting to come in
August 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM