Video from today's Live Q&A

Core ideas from the book + answers to questions

Hi everybody. 70 people signed up and about 20 joined today. I haven’t done one of these in awhile and was a bit under the weather, resulting in me forgetting to set people’s video to default to off. As a bonus you get the periodic entertainment value of a handful of folks joining, realizing their camera was on, looking embarrassed and then disappearing. My fault folks :)

Office hours are still on this Thursday at 9am PST. Bring your questions and situations. Register here. We may have a special guest: my Mom.

The first twenty minutes is me talking about the book, followed by Q&A. This was my first live version of this and I already have notes to make the next one better. Thanks everyone for joining.

Links & references mentioned:

• Twitter poll about what makes design hard, and related poll on this substack

• The top 9 difficult situations designers face (Part 5 of the book)

• Marty Cagan on empowered product teams

• George Orwell’s rules for writing clearly

• A summary of my advice on writing