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Full Stack Whatever

Full Stack Whatever is a series of conversations with creatives and technologists about the work behind the work. Technology, design, and art are all subjects powered by an immeasurable amount of time invested by humans. And too often, we find ourselves only talking about the superficial aspects; job titles, launches, campaigns, etc. With these conversations, I want to dig deeper and uncover the lessons, insights, and motivations of some of the best and brightest in our industries. I hope to

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01:01:17

Behzod Sirjani: Personal Trainer for Your Organization

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/08/29

Behzod is a researcher, consultant, and advisor who focuses on helping organizations and teams make better decisions. We talked about his career path from being a TA to his formative roles at Facebook and Slack, and how he’s evolved his consulting practice to support leaders at companies of all sizes. At the end, he shared some of his thoughts on how AI can support the research practice.

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00:49:41

Frankie Gaw: Fun Little Side Quests

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2023/08/22

Frankie is a former digital product designer turned food writer and photographer. He’s the author of First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese American Home and founder of the food blog Little Fat Boy. We talked about his path, from studying industrial design to unexpectedly landing a job as a digital product designer, and from there taking a side quest to leave tech and fully focus on food.

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01:36:39

Alex Cornell & George Kedenburg III: Zoom in Real Life

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2023/08/15

Alex and George are two very talented designers with very complementary skillsets whose paths intersected at Facebook. We sat down to talk about design, careers, technology, and all the things.

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01:08:40

Annie Fryman: I Didn't Sleep Much

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2023/08/08

Annie studied architecture, and after a few years as a practicioner pivoted to tackle the laws that govern our built environment, and the systems that shape it. Most notably, she was a policy staffer for California State Senator Scott Wiener during his first term in office where she was responsible for some of the biggest state housing bills in recent times. She shared her reflections on her career so far, and her perspectives on housing and politics in California.

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00:42:19

Rachel Lee: Double Black Diamond

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/08/02

Rachel is a designer and creative who currently works on the ride-hailing experience at Cruise. We discussed her path from double majoring in Psychology and Sociology to hustling her way into a design career. We covered her experience as a first-generation immigrant and how she deals with her ambition, and the expectations she puts on herself.

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01:10:31

Geoff Teehan: Canon DocuColor 1632

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/07/25

Geoff is a designer, design leader and was one of the founders and partners at Teehan+Lax. We talked about his early career, got a glimpse into the founding of Teehan+Lax, and the rationale behind entertaining an acquisition. We spoke about design leadership and the lessons he learned while leading various teams at Facebook, and we sprinkled in many small tangents.

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01:00:33

Bryn & Sarah Jackson: Rawdogging a Squid

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/07/18

For over a decade, Bryn and Sarah have been entrepreneurs and in creative or operating roles. However, the place where they truly feel at home is around food and building community. In this conversation we talk about their paths, and we get a candid, personal account of the challenges they’ve faced. We end by learning more about how things are going with their latest endeavor: Cult Flav.

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00:59:35

Michelle Morrison & Madelin Woods: Creative Friendship

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2023/07/11

Michelle and Madelin have enjoyed a long creative friendship. They overlapped at various different companies and collaborated on an equal amount of creative ventures. In this conversation, we talked about their creative connection, we shared our thoughts on strong collaborative relationships and remote work, and we got to hear some interesting stories from their times at Square, Facebook and Dropbox.

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01:00:22

Cameron Koczon: Spider-Man With the Venom Suit

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2023/07/04

Cameron is the founder and CEO of Fictive Kin, and co-creator of Brooklyn Beta and Kinference. Cameron has had a significant impact on a pocket of the technology and design industry. We talked about the state of technology, the state of design within those technology businesses, and many more other things.

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00:53:38

Maya Gold Patterson: Fairy God Dad

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/06/27

Maya is a digital product designer and design leader. She is currently the VP of Design at Riverside. We discussed her career path and dug into the lessons she learned from her time at Facebook and Twitter. We spoke about her attraction to the audio medium and how it is to work remotely across ten timezones.

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01:14:20

Joshua Dickens: Big in Japan

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/06/20

Josh is a digital product designer and prototyper, currently working at Humane. We talked about a ton of things. We went in depth about his extended periods of time spent at Apple and Instagram. Weaved into this, he shared how he thinks about prototyping, and how he draws the relationship between his acting education and design.

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01:23:38

Hans Peter Brøndmo: Arctic Guerilla Warfare

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/06/13

Hans Peter is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and photographer. Most recently, he led Everyday Robots at Alphabet. We talked about the experiences he gained from the companies he founded, his time at Nokia during the rise of the iPhone, and his reflections on leading robotics at Alphabet. Towards the end of our conversation, we talked about our mutual love for photography and got a little nerdy about Leica and photo management.

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00:47:57

Kim Bost: Finding Our Way

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/06/06

Kim is a designer and leader with a very colorful track record including past roles at well-known companies like The New York Times, Etsy, and Dropbox. She is currently part of the Experience Design leadership team at Netflix. We covered a lot of topics, including burn-out, management styles, values alignment with your team and your employer, our shared thoughts on research, as well as her deep interest in food and wine.

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01:05:17

Aaron Carambula: Reducing Future Trash

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/05/30

Aaron is one of those great individuals who is both a great designer, as well as a fabulous leader. He recently joined eBay as their VP of Design, where he continues his quest to bring re-commerce to the masses. We talked about his path into design, from his days in service design to realizing he wanted to go in-house, and eventually ending up having a long stint at Facebook, where he most notably was pivotal in the success of Marketplace.

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01:04:32

Didier Hilhorst: Mediocre at Best

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2023/05/23

Didier studied to be an economist before making a pivot into design. Since then, he has been a design lead at Flipboard and led a large part of the Uber design team. Most recently, he co-founded a fintech company in Paris called Bloks. We spoke about the genesis of his career path and the big lessons that he’s learned along the way. Some of the notable topics we dug in to were: working on mobile apps in the early 2010s, how to deal with working at a company that is experiencing major adversity, and

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00:54:56

Mia Blume: Goofy-looking Cacti

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/05/16

Mia Blume is an entrepreneur, design leader, and leadership coach. She is the founder and CEO of learning & development company DesignDept, and the founder and host of the design leadership conference Within. We discussed her career and how she went from service design to in-house to starting her companies. We spoke about how she guides and supports design leaders through her workshops and coaching practices, and dug deeper into the importance of having business acumen as a design leader.

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00:55:37

Jessica Hische: Feeding the Beast

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2023/05/02

Jessica is a lettering artist and author who has created custom lettering artwork for established brands, films, classic books, postage stamps, and so much more. She’s traveled the world speaking at creative conferences and colleges and has befriended innumerable internet strangers while navigating the depths of social media. Most recently, she wrote and illustrated her latest children’s book: “Who Will U Be?”. We talked a bit about her career and the meaningful moments within it. And we chatted

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01:01:55

Michael Sharon: Creative Monkeys

Full Stack Whatever ·

2023/04/25

Michael is an entrepreneur, investor, and product person. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at Taika, making beverages that fuel creativity. He was Facebook's first mobile product hire and subsequently led their mobile product development and strategy—including the company's pivot to mobile—for more than five years. We talked about his path from South Africa to the US, his career-defining role at Facebook, and his path since.

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00:38:16

Matthew Buchanan: Growing Slowly

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2023/04/18

Matthew is a designer, entrepreneur and a co-founder of Letterboxd, a social media site for film discussion and discovery. We talked about his path, how he bootstrapped and incubated Letterboxd, and how he has approached leading the company, and evolving the product, in the decade-plus that it has been around.

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00:31:59

Haraldur Thorleifsson: Live at Kinference

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2023/04/11

I’m excited to bring you a conversation with Haraldur Thorleifsson, or Halli, for short. I met up with Halli at Kinference in Brooklyn, and he was gracious enough to give me some of his time. We recorded this in the venue during the conference happy hour, so please bear with us as there’s going to be a lot of noise. Halli is an entrepreneur, creative design leader, and musician from Reykjavik, Iceland. He previously founded and led UENO. Currently, he is building 1000 ramps in Iceland, releasing

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