SimpleContraption
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SimpleContraption
@simplecontraption.bsky.social
I make things simple.
Design leader, ex-Google, MSFT, Expedia, frogDesign.
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April 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Translation: decades of time invested in building institutions and organizational knowledge across dozens of government agencies demolished.

In exchange, we saved enough money to buy maybe half of an Elon Musk at current market prices.
April 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In related news, Ghegis Khan is ushering in a new world of open space and freedom, uncrowded by so many living people. But he’s not explaining it very well.
March 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Spineless. This is the hour when your country is desperately calling you to lead and all you do is roll over.
March 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Enemy of my enemy is still my unhinged barking mad enemy.

There’s room in the jail for both of them.
February 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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December 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Excellent guide.

I'm about a 7 on the "Not-So-Sure-About-AI-o-Meter" but I would 100% be in favor of an AI-powered feature that would just do this for every image uploaded to anything, everywhere.
December 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The Innovator's Dilemma is still relevant.
December 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM
My detailed and nuanced take: "so?"
December 4, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Smart is common. Nice is both rare and hard.

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November 30, 2024 at 3:07 PM
"We hereby demand..."

🙄 Ugh. He's not even in office yet and I'm already tired of this guy talking as if he is making medieval royal proclamations.

Make these announcements with trumpets, the unfurling of a wax-sealed parchment scroll, and the release of doves like it is supposed to be.
November 26, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Yes, the tech stackis tricky and a bit arcane.

Getting management to pay for a11y support is 10x harder in my experience.
November 23, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Its such a cliched senior prank at this point, we should be surprised that anyone still does it. 🙃
November 22, 2024 at 1:53 AM