Brad Lauster

In 1980, when I was five years old, my parents noticed me singing along with songs on the radio and offered to buy me some records. I chose my three favorites: 1. Another One Bites the Dust, Queen 2. Upside Down, Diana Ross 3. 9 to 5, Dolly Parton RIP Dolly

🎵oh my god I was wrong! We were the sea people all along!🎵

The non-profit I work for is holding a free online event this Sunday: Finding Calm in the Chaos: Understanding Your Nervous System. Our speaker is Yikai Xu, of the Culture, Emotion, and Health Lab at NYU. Please share with others who may be interested!

Happy Independence Day

Augmented reality glasses would be hugely popular if they had just one feature: hide all ads

Earthquake!

Wild that there are six artists on this list I've never heard of before, and two artists I actively avoid listening to.

Mandami is so good, he's got me watching press briefings about trash collection in NYC. I live in San Francisco.

1000%

It’s been nearly two decades since I worked at Stanford. I used to pass through the main quad regularly. It’s usually bustling with students and tourists, so I was thrilled to capture this people-free shot of the covered walkway that encircles the Inner Quad courtyard.

Remember to set your clocks one hour forward before bed tonight for #DeLaSavings ⏰

Once again, I am begging @caltrain.com to establish quiet cars

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).

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’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

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.

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?

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).

Earthquake?

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'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.

how might we not

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/...

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.

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

I can't find any restaurants rated lower than 2.5 stars on Yelp. Surely there are two-star restaurants in San Francisco, right? ⭐️⭐️

To this very day, I can’t reconcile with the fact that hundreds of thousands have been laid off in tech the past few years, And we are the ones who bear the entire burden. But the ones who failed to run their businesses? All fine. They’ve still got homes, healthcare, cars, etc.

if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌 if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins

What’s the difference between the 🚄 and 🚅 emoji? I’ve always assumed they represent two recognizable Japanese trains.

Once again, I am begging people to ask their representatives to abolish the Electoral College - a system that actively discourages millions of Americans from voting.

Congrats to the team, but this news is very disappointing for Pixelmator Pro users. Apple will kill Pixelmator Pro and merge one or two of its features into an existing Apple product - just like they do with every acquisition. www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11...

RIP Phil Lesh. Glad I got to see him at Stern Grove a couple years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtuX...

Stylish designers (and non-designers!), whose black T-shirt are you wearing these days? I’m looking for something heavyweight but soft that holds up well to frequent washing and wearing.

Threads is live. Kicking the tires, here: https://www.threads.net/@bradlau.info

If whatever you’re doing isn’t working, don’t do it harder. → Accurate advice for every area of life (especially sex) from Martha Beck, author of The Way of Integrity.

Looks like they’re letting anyone onto this app now…