January 08, 2020

328: Thinking About 2020

46 minutes

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

Cool Things:

Cameron Campbell shared Offscreen Magazine, an independent print magazine that examines how we shape technology and how technology shapes us.

Brian shared MacOS Design Review and grumpy.website, two mini-series websites cataloging the annoying and buggy parts of modern software design. It's like Little Big Details, but for bad things. grumpy.website is maintained by Nikita, who also blogs about the current state of software design

Marshall shared Mr. Robot Season 4: "the ending is fucking perfect." What more could you ask for? Don't do too much research, go in blind, and enjoy.

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