Amy Hoy: Pro Edition

Hello friends, I am back on the job market and looking for Elixir opportunities..if your company is hiring or you come accross opportunities please DM me.

Retweets appreciated 🙏

#elixirlang #elixir

Jobs had many flaws, but the man had taste, loved good art, and could tell you *what* he loved about the artists he loved. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen spent decades of his life learning guitar and built a museum dedicated to Hendrix. We used to have a better class of robber baron.

writing, famously a career where job opportunities are easy and plentiful and pay well… jk writers who just write for a living are often living in hell

Aluminum badge on a metal box that says good design with a stylized g as a logo.

"Good design is tasteful." "Good design is user centered."

Wrong, wrong, all wrong.

Good design is only when you name your brand "good design" and put a badge that says "good design" on all your products.

Amy Hoy hey, it's a blog!

hi!

i wrote recently about new tools i'm trying on my new mac — was that what you meant? that's on amyhoy.com

and thank you!

truly they know no shame

1. they're not a "personality"
2. they don't even show their face
3. they don't talk
4. they don't have a cool set with cool lighting
5. they don't do long videos
6. they don't do weird hype shit

they "only" offer interesting, useful, consistent, well-presented recipes for the air fryer audience

YouTube video by Rosario Cooking Ground Meat + Air Fryer = My Easiest Dinner Ever!

feeling bogged down with a list of things you think you "have to do" to succeed?

try opening your eyes to see the many, MANY forms of success all around you.

this cooking channel gets hundreds of thousands of views on a majority of videos while not doing ANY of the "youtube requirements"

saw somebody trying to promote their youtube channel on here with the following (paraphrased):

> You should check me out on Youtube. I work real hard on my videos and they're really cool.

this is not the way to sell anything, guys 😭 nobody cares.

oooh, interesting

preparing to record a landing page teardown for a client by following our own landing page teardown rubric

it sure is nice to systematize

what's that? i'm out of the loop

you have no idea how many times i relate this to random customer service people whose computers suddenly malfunction when it comes to my account

The Product Picnic Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

One cool thing about Beehiiv (Substack but without nazis) is that you can have a webring like it's 1996 again and the internet is still good (although they call it "Recommendations" but real ones know).

All of you should start writing too, and then add me, and we can have a #uxsky webring

aside from the terrible design (left-right content jog BAD)

this is an excellent example of a product comparison page:

wonderful!

ah! those sound like conventions from omnigraffle, although it does have "magnets" that make the line jump to the center for you

unironically, this is what you get when you mistakenly believe your "peers" are a valuable source of business ideas and feedback

this pack of peers is extra shitty but it's always an ouroboros

oh yes?? tell me about it. this is the nerdery i love. it's been on my list of things to try but haven't yet

bad things happen when you confuse your actual Best Customers with your Ideal Customers

or deeply funny things. depends on your perspective.

@brianclark.social hey hey, can i dm you?

this is so good 🥹

recut is a sharp, *focused* tool for editing a/v content

And if you enjoyed that, I definitely recommend jml’s post in a similar vein - notes.jml.io/2021-07-10-1... - I wish I’d read it before starting on mine!

some people say that the reason children are so spoiled is because we don’t hit them any more. news flash, you can still psychologically abuse your kids. just give them OKRs

ughhhh so good

i can't wait to get a 3d printer and get some gridfinity going!

you're very welcome! hope it helps!

oops i meant contribute useful posts/comments

not karma

need my 2nd red bull before posting

you want a reputation of "that helpful person who also does x" not "that person trying to sell x"

1. lurk first to get the feeling for each subreddit - they all have different cultures

2. contribute useful posts/karma

3. link in bio

4. only after you've built up a decent amount of karma, start slowly dropping mentions of your work / product but not in a sales way, use it to teach/explain