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328: Thinking About 2020
Episode Summary
In this first episode of the new decade, we look ahead to 2020 and enumerate some personal and professional goals for the year to come. And as always, we share some cool things (this week, with the help of a listener and VIP Patron!), including an IRL magazine, a couple grumpy websites, and the final season of a show.
Episode Notes
In this first episode of the new decade, we look ahead to 2020 and enumerate some personal and professional goals for the year to come. And as always, we share some cool things (this week, with the help of a listener!), including an IRL magazine, a couple grumpy websites, and the final season of a show.
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Follow-up:
- Marshall chilled this break, and watched a bunch of shows and read some books:
- [Watchmen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(TV_series)
- [The Boys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(2019_TV_series)
- Mr. Robot
- [Unbelievable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbelievable_(miniseries)
- [Alone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_(TV_series)
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
- [Mission Impossible series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:Impossible(film_series)
- Expeditionary Force
- PocketCasts shipped some great new features, highlighting the deletion of Design Details – oop!
- The Mishalorian is a vacuum cleaner for design files. Us, too!
- Paweł Ludwiczak asked about keeping design systems separated by platform.
Listener Question:
- Zack Aronson asks: "Thinking about my 2020:Q1 career goals and not sure where to start. I have 9 years of professional experience as a product designer and currently an IC at Venmo. Any thoughts? Inspiration? Words of wisdom? I thought you gents could help!"
- Marshall set some goals for this year:
- Ship an app with SwiftUI
- Update my personal site
- Make good progress on my screenplay
- Get a promotion at work
- Return to Tokyo
- Overhaul my wardrobe and shoes
- Stop biting my nails
- Work out more
- Brian also set some goals (and also wrote more details about them, here):
- Visit new country
- Learn conversational Chinese
- Software side project that generates revenue
- Learn a new programming language - Brian already started with a small personal utility app for bookmarking favorite links! See the thread of the app getting built.
- Write monthly on the new https://brianlovin.com/overthought
- Gain 14lbs
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!