Josh Silverman

@jhsilverman.bsky.social

Designer, entrepreneur, educator, optimist. Founder @PeopleWorkPartners. I help founders and design teams hire well, build culture, and find their footing.

Pushing a major update to my personal site in advance of a podcast ep dropping next week. While it’s exciting to be updating it after so long, working with Claude and Netlify and GitHub has me recalling an adage from my agency days: “solving problems by creating them” 🥴🫠😬

BOY it’s been SO LONG since I’ve traded glances with someone on the train — eventually saying hi before my stop because I saw him GLARING — bro if you’re not gonna make the first move then I absofreakinglutely will! 🔥 Relatedly: just posted a Craigslist missed connections 😮‍💨🙏🏻

Man it was both hilarious & hard to rewatch Sorry to Bother You tonight at Roxie in SF. Boots and LaKeith and Tune-Yards were back for I Love Boosters & I super enjoyed what a visual romp it was. A critical skewed skewering of SF. I appreciate how far he takes the joke. The absurd and the awful.

Having something to say and saying it beautifully are distinct pursuits. We can talk about the AI em-dash situation all you like. But another pervasive issue for me is the use of a foot mark where a proper apostrophe should be (option-shift-]). Here are just a few recent examples 🙄 #copyediting

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