If interviewers can ask you to present a case study, you can ask them to present something right back. "I would like to understand how UX research and design shaped the latest release, would you be able to walk me through that?"

Conversations about taste in the context of design are always fun because some designers are all too happy to call something out as "bad taste" without having any idea of what taste is *for* and the ways in which an object can be good or bad at achieving that purpose.

Smaller teams move quicker, but having the correct team composition and mandate is much more important than size. Unless your team has decision authority, you will fall behind again while getting stakeholders caught up to your progress and insights.

leadership AI: rand(5) 0: I'll know it when I see it 1: We need to take a step back and think bigger 2: Can you come up with some OKRs and then make sure you are meeting them 3: Looks good, now go convince eng to build it 4: You did a terrible job 5: roll twice & combine