Julie

today’s my birthday. the best gift i could wish for is more birthdays for the children of Gaza who are barely surviving today. watching innocent kids and babies die from starvation and bombing should break everyone’s heart. it surely breaks mine. please, donate what you can — money, words, whatever you have — and hope food reaches the families in Gaza. ive donated €500 to UNICEF this week and plan on giving more. together we are so much more powerful.

🤍

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la nôtre sait pas encore dire non mais elle nous fait non avec le doigt une centaine de fois par jour. trop hâte qu'elle dise autre chose que "ça" en pointant tout ce qu'elle veut.

nooooooooon

déjà là à 15 mois, en dehors de la sieste je suis rincée. il se passe quoi à deux ans? 😭

new theory: parents become writers during the first few months of their baby's life because what else are you supposed to do when your baby is napping?

yay!

fiction, fantasy. what are you writing?

today i shared the first chapter of the book i’m writing with someone.

it felt like doing a design presentation but a thousand times more stressful.

at least no PMs were involved.

i think i should definitely say this in public so people stop pretending

people who say “i know you used AI to write this doc”… ok?
yes, i did. because writing it wasn’t the job, sharing the info was.
i’m not wasting 3 hours making a PRD look human when i know half the team will just ask AI to summarize it.

tell me!

3 weeks ago i went to ikea and bought a bookshelf
it’s still in my car
and it's not a small one

your real best friends for life are the ones you trauma bonded with at work

my alarm changes every day.
sometimes it’s a soft tune.
sometimes it’s a cat meowing.
most days it’s a baby calling.

not procrastinating. just anxiety vibing.

what i’ve learned while writing a book:
if you love a sentence too much because it sounds clever, it probably needs to go

my cat has a lot of thoughts to share during the daily standup
none of them are on topic

*creates a demo and shares it with an engineer*
eng: we should hire you as a frontend
me: i didn’t code that, i just prompted
eng: exactly. i prompt all day too.

you know you're writing a book when you've got 50+ tabs open and they're all thesaurus.com

imagine being a grown man and thinking “you know what the world needs? a video of me making fun of teenage girls”
the algorithm might be broken but their self-awareness is dead 💁🏻‍♀️

PTO used to mean paid time off.
now it means parenting ‘til overwhelmed. still no regrets

too many people confuse “communication” with “mind reading”

remote workers are always on time.
office workers are 3 to 5 minutes late because “the room was booked” or “wifi isn't working”

Un choix stratégique

you can write your own horoscope.
who’s gonna stop you?

Creativity isn't really a skill, it's a path you walk on. Every step you take, every little thing you create opens the way to more creativity.

Creating a roadmap and sequencing work is relatively easy. Making a planning to handle childcare, work, dates and workouts tho… that’s a whole different story 🥲

The start of Q2 feels like the end of mercury retrograde. Do your affirmations, set up your goals. Create a moodboard ✨

The timeline never fails:
1. Designer announces they’re leaving XYZ (a product known for its design)
2. A few months later you check XYZ’s website, and it looks like someone’s aunt redesigned it in Google Slides
3. XYZ is soon replaced by its competitor

I’d like to speak to whoever is responsible for daylight savings.

I have some feedback...

Tomorrow I have 7 hours of train (3h30 each way) for a 1-hour meeting.

Debating if I should work or catch up on sleep...