Randall Koutnik

I’m excited to be speaking at LDX3 London this year! Join me and a whole bunch of excellent leaders (and get 15% off with my discount code). I'll be talking about the many challenges of copy & paste.

After a bit of back and forth, I've discovered the word my daughter was asking me to spell was "birch"

of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.

lawsuits take time, because they require the *precise* language of what they're objecting to, plaintiffs to establish standing, complaints & briefs to be written, etc.

everyone who was screaming at ACLU, LL, etc. to "do something" should sit right the F back down.

A friend tried to convince me that the US was banning TikTok because "China invented a new kind of bank entirely on the Internet so the US can't control it" and to be honest I can't wait for the ban to happen so we can start having normal conversations again.

Mainstream/AAA video games peaked a long time ago.

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Listen, if you grew up eating Red Delicious apples and think all apples are equally atrocious, you're missing out: applerankings.com

Noooooo that's how you fall to Chaos and turn into a Daemon Prince!

i’m grateful for this thread, i’ve learned a lot and had some things that i wrongly believed corrected.

I take a deep breath and remember that a reality crafted by an algorithm to keep me addicted is not representative of the actual world I live in.

There are far more helpers than villains, even if the latter gets all the attention.

You ever think `007` is *really* dumb permissions to have on a spy?

Oh don't get me started on undo! (I'm related news, I just submitted a talk on our copy/paste stack)

Folks in tech who worked elsewhere before starting your tech career, what did you do (and what lessons did you bring with you?)

google tries to tell me that One Eye should narrow her "eyes" her name is ONE EYE for a REASON

nah google, I don't think that's a correct correction

I think that the tweet genre of “this person (who might be a bot) had a bizarre opinion that made me think less of humanity and so the right thing by to do is screenshot it and show it to the largest number of people” is silly.

Monday the thirteenth strikes again!

Some of them are pretty big, and there's occasionally a blue one. Important things to consider.

So I've been learning a whole bunch as I've been onboarding at Figma. Turns out there's like, a lot of different rectangles out there!

wikipedia article "DEI (disambiguation)" says "Dei or DEI may also refer to... Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, a fictional company in the Phineas and Ferb animated TV series"

wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to

ChatGPT is excellent for writing talk proposals, I ask it to write one and it produces such a terrible result that I have no choice but to write a much better one out of spite.

Rawr!

First world problems but it is really dumb that the only version of Minecraft that works on a MacBook is incompatible with the iPad version

The real question is when we hit peak peak oil joke

agdq’s crazy taxi run has a mosh pit

Knew a director once who had a disabled spouse and needed the health plan to support her. Different kind of good, but it meant he had to be very politically astute at work.

Oh no what now

a screenshot showing several images of an Ivysaur plush that is advertised as "life-sized" as a raffle prize for donating to Games Done Quick.

HOW CAN IT BE LIFE-SIZED POKEMON AREN'T REAL #gdq