Andboo Haunton 😷🎃

andrewhinton.bsky.social

18 October 2026 20:43

This weekend I am, once again, putting the "pro" in "procrastinate".

Erika Hall

erikahall.bsky.social

18 October 2026 20:41

A contributing factor to [all this] is that people who just want to do the work and live their lives are uncomfortable (or simply, reasonably bored) with things like power, sales, negotiation, and self-promotion, while the monsters and grifters are very interested and adept indeed.

Erika Hall

erikahall.bsky.social

18 October 2026 20:40

Right now the standard is "good design is whatever I can get mid-six figures for" which fine whatever for anyone's purposes of getting a job, that's between them, their conscience, and their mortgage, but I'm seeing a lot of bad faith rationalizations in public.

ishyamo

ishyamo.bsky.social

18 October 2026 20:40

From my general perspective (and I’m a bit out of the picture these days), but it seems like it has been that way for awhile. Not only in the U.S., in the U.K. too.

Erika Hall

erikahall.bsky.social

18 October 2026 20:40

Design is my chosen profession because I think it can be useful. Design discourse is rotted (in the US) because so much of the work went in-house and the self-styled leaders are now speaking foremost on behalf of employers/potential employers who mostly hate people and other living things.