The Faker You Are, the More Successful You Can Be by Pablo Stanley

While specifically targeted at designers and the design industry, I thought this was a rather (comedic) talk on the culture of the technology at large. It’s kind of written in the spirit of the old tale “The Emperor’s New Cloths”, a way of saying “look at these moments in your professional life and realize that nobody is wearing any clothes”.

A couple quotes I liked:

that’s the spirit of the creative: always carrying that soul-crushing insecurity

the more buzzwords you use, the less you have to explain your actual design thinking.

“empathy map”, “user journey maps”, we’re kinda crazy about maps, I don’t know what it is, probably because we’re lost [as an industry].