I reversed engineered my slack etiquette when reacting to messages at work. < 25 yrs old => use :blob-party: when happy > 25 => use 🙌 when happy

it's actually incredible how good some people are at choosing and giving gifts. maybe unsurprising to others, but it took a while for me to realize...

Started a substack for my writing goals this year😅. First post reflecting on people's relationship to work and a framework for navigating it: mickeymdang.substack.com/p/whats-your-r…

Completely demoralized waking up early for a meeting just bc the customer is in EST 🫠. Need a nap.

Do opposites actually attract or are they just similar in subtler ways? An idea I tried explaining in: mickeymdang.substack.com/p/layers-of-si…

Wouldn't be surprised if the biggest benefit of ChatGPT for Microsoft is simply that it encourages people to try Bing for the first time & realize it's not that different than Google search. Typical marketing tactic in enterprise software.

City I dislike: Seattle City I think is overrated: Seattle (x2) City I like: San Francisco, Lisbon City I love: Vancouver, Hong Kong City I feel most myself in: Toronto City I still need to visit: Tokyo, Taipei City I dream of living in: New York

I’ve now slept in & missed a meeting 3 times ever since getting an iPhone because I’d accidentally change my “every weekend” alarm rather than my “every weekday” alarm time, is this just a me problem?

I finally built a personal website ✨. Inspired by my curiosity of geospatial data, each pin on the map & point on the timeline captures a different project, hobby, musing, etc... Check it out & lmk what you think 😄!

All I wanted this week was to read a book in peace.

For some reason I always feel like I’m the only one who thinks this way at work. It’s like catching a wave. You time it wrong with the proportion of nap:walk:coffee and sorry everyone 🤷‍♂️ you’re stuck waiting until tomorrow for the problem to get solved.

Hello again Waterloo 👋 , come say hi before Socratica if you're passing through!

free career tip: be so competent they forget you’re unmanageable

so excited to host a cozy sundays x claude create-a-thon with Zainab Jangda and Anthropic on june 1 in nyc at the beautiful Ambrook space 🤎 if you’ve been meaning to meet the coolest builders around, try out your vibe coding with artifacts, and grab some tasty snacks, comment