Had an amazing time teaching Design at Scale Conference! Many thanks to Team Rosenfeld Media for excellent speaker support and being kind humans. Even more thanks to my participants for their courage and presence- excited for your teams to receive your #upskilled #communication #badassery

SO EXCITED to join the adjunct faculty California College of the Arts to teach Communication in the Masters' (M.Des) program this fall! Every time Josh Silverman and I get to collaborate and combine our superpowers, magic and badassery ensue <3

"Compassion fatigue" is real, especially when you're responsible for leading and caring for others in a time of crisis. Thank you to my wise friend Dr. Samantha Soma for sharing solid coping strategies #putyourownoxygenmaskonfirst

Great discussion started by Jina Anne with added awesome from Erin C. tl;dr YOUR IDEAS COME FROM SOMEWHERE. Attribution is important (and lack thereof is appropriation, and plagiarism, and gross).

Hi Kim Scott, Q: I've been giving #radicalcandor to students/clients for years- no better framework to teach the combo of care AND challenge. But the "kickass boss" reframe of the new edition makes some ICs wonder whether it's for them. Any advice?

Dear poetry peeps: please share recommendations for MOAR POEMZ to read with my 11YO son! He is a huge Mary Oliver fan (The Fish is his favorite: famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mary_oli…) We've read American Primitives and Why I Wake Early many, many times now - what to read next?

Ada Limón became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020. Her next book, "The Hurting Kind" comes out this spring. @adalimon told @msmagazine, "Feminism informs what I create, because I’ve always been taught that I have value no matter who or what tries to take that way from me." #IWD2022

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! This female small biz owner is updating her portfolio of services offered! Q: can anyone think of an equal-in-perceived-status yet non-gendered name for "Master Class"?

I have the same question as my pal Ryan! Brand designers you recommend, self-employed BIPOC/women/queers and genderqueers to the front, pretty please and thank you!

Anyone else with #synaesthesia feel like making a good salad shares a similar type of joy to the experience of making music? #relaxingsunday #synesthesia

Great piece by Robin Camarote about #lateralleadership includes this #truthbomb: "our hesitance to assert a leadership role with our peers is exactly how silos form." Managers: if you're defensive about ppl "in your lane," YOU might be the problem: inc.com/robin-camarote…

What I've loved most about this platform: direct conversations with kind, interesting humans about super specific long-tail shared interests. There's nothing else like it, and I am having a hard time letting go after so many years.

On LI I'm a coach and OG UXer, on Insta I'm a collage artist, on FB I'm a music nerd, knitter and home chef, with my peeps I'm a mama, a writer and queer femme. Here (like in life) I'm to be D, all of the above. If we've had a connection here, pls know that I loved it. Fiercely.

Please let's stay in touch <3 linkedin.com/posts/billiema…

My queendom for a way to teach the robot Bluetooth voice how to pronounce my name properly EVERY TIME my headphones connect #voiceUX #UXfail #notallUXhasaUI

What fresh hell is the latest MacOS + iOS update? Who the F decided that "focus" settings should be the same on my laptop and my phone? No one who's watched a real entrepreneur trying to use Apple devices to manage her business AND her life, that's for sure #UXfail #productfail

GREAT ADVICE for writers (and designers, and job seekers, and entrepreneurs) = learn from rejection! Fits with something Dr. Gabor Maté wrote that hits hard in the best way (paraphrasing here): If you're DEFENDING you're not GROWING <3