Natural History Museum on Saturday. Handy for when your kids start asking questions about how life on Earth started.

Work and Learning

This week I’ve been working with a local council and a Korean startup to facilitate some app usability testing with wheelchair users. Everyone learned a lot, including me. I didn’t put enough thought into the accessibility of the consent form. Language and font size, yes. But not the act of holding and signing it (we were outside, no desks) making it awkward and not a great experience for some people who had difficulty using their hands. If anyone has any advice on how to design consent forms (that need signing) for accessibility, or knows of any tools (would docusign be better?), I’d receive it very gratefully.

Embrace the Cringe

This is what I needed to read this week having started to break the back of writing some stuff to post on LinkedIn. Yes I want to be visible and top of mind for people. But I also want to write posts and share tools that people will find helpful.

If you wanna do anything cool, you gotta risk being called cringe. Embrace the cringe. One man’s cringe is another man’s cool. As my old boss Greg Isenberg says, “Trying isn’t cringe. Cringe isn’t trying.” If I wasn’t willing to look cringe to some people and write bangers online, I would’ve never been able to quit my boring job or start a blog or get a book deal. You wanna peak in high school debate club and never do anything exciting in your career? Or do you wanna go do cool shit no one else is doing? You need stop overthinking shit and start underthinking it. Just go balls to the fucking wall.

This guy is a modern day Aristotle. Seriously, here is Aristotle: "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

That's it from me this week. Much writing coming soon.