John Voss

@jovo.design

Head of Product Design at Descript, cofounder of @queerdesign.club. Queering design, ethical tech, and dogs. Husband of @seldo.com. I write and speak, no matter how much people beg me to stop 🌎 jovo.design 📍SF / Sea Ranch

I've determined that 2-3 of the ravens that follow me are juveniles demanding their parents still feed them. It's equal parts annoying and cute.

I thought it would be fun to befriend the three ravens that perch outside our house. There are now a dozen ravens that perch outside our house. It's not about having raven friends any more. It's about not making raven enemies.

Never. Ever. Find yourself owner of a vendor contract at your company. In unrelated news, has anyone successfully gotten their teams off Figma?

I love an opportunity to paraphrase Bette Davis: You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Lindsey Graham is dead. Good.

Do you think we’ll make it to August before everyone who’s writing about integrating agents into your design systems starts writing about how to unslop your design system?

According to my wellness tracker, I had the best night’s sleep in terms of REM and deep sleep in months, but I feel like shit. What gives?

Is there like an open source email safety course? Sea Ranch is mostly septuagenarians, and based on listserv activity, our critical infrastructure is at severe risk.

I’ve been befriending our neighborhood ravens, and the Nest cam I have pointed at our deck to spot wildlife consistently tags them as “Person.”

Finally got my stimulants after a couple of weeks being off them. It’s about to be like Jekyll and Hyde, but Mr. Hyde is the one who can function in society.

Caught up on The Bay and started the Boroughs this weekend. There’s got to be a theme to my weekend viewing. I’m not sure what it is. But it’s definitely there.

Put a gun to my head and I’d side with folks who are vehemently opposed to AI for anything over people who want to put it everywhere, but I don’t really have the energy to engage with either attitude seriously.