(2023-03-06) Critchlow A Fever Dream Figma Thinkers First Cohort

Tom Critchlow: A Fever Dream & Figma Thinkers First Cohort. I had a fever dream last night about the flower and the chessboard - a vivid image for an essay I want to write about finite and infinite careers, about how "game playing" is frowned upon in careers...

Being machiavellian and playing politics at work is seen as distasteful. And yet these skills are powerful, important and worth learning. It is, after all, simply humans all the way down. (hmm, see There are 3 Games of Product Management)

This metaphor of the flower and the chessboard speaks to the value of the flip flop - back and forth between becoming an excellent game player, and rejecting the very premise of the game. (Finite And Infinite Games, (2022-01-11) Chin The Dangers Of Treating Life As A Game)

also:

Figma Thinkers is a course designed to teach non-designers how to use Figma. More than pushing pixels around, Figma is a new kind of communication and it's totally re-wiring my professional life as an indie consultant. So I've partnered with Nate Kadlac (a real designer!) and we're launching the first cohort for the course next week.