Brian McConnell

Ratatouille is a warm fruit salad.

Halloween in north Brooklyn is like, costume or hipster?

You can not buy authenticity.

“Everyone has a boss, unless you’re Beyoncé.” Me explaining stakeholder management to a mentee.

Many people confuse "Hybrid office" with "Colocated", but they're very different. For global teams distributed across timezones and offices, Hybrid is basically, "zoom at the office". You need to reorg by geography to get the same velocity, innovation, and efficiency gains.

Engineering lead: why do we need a bespoke design system? Why can’t we just use something pre-built like Material? Me: why are you rebuilding an off-the-shelf CMS? Engineering lead: Because it doesn’t… oh.

Fun work moment: presenting remotely to 100 people when my wife gets locked out of the house.

I finally met one of my teams at work IRL after two years of pandemic. Nobody was the same height as they were on zoom. 🧐

Me: I just finished a massive bike ride. I should eat healthy to speed my recovery and maximize performance gains. Also me: half a pie is one serving, right?

I think the GQP platform is… We can’t allow women to abort fetuses. We need them to grow into children so we can shoot them. Absolutely shameful.

If you’re horrified at how 18th century colonialists would strip a Caribbean island bare to build sugar plantations and ships using slave labor leaving an ecological disaster in their wake then wait until you hear about Bitcoin.

When a Billionaire says they want to do something to promote freedom or fairness, check your pockets.

Charoset with pepitas tonight because walnuts are garbage.

I have convinced my 5yo that the objective of the Easter hunt is to capture and kill the Easter bunny to serve at the Seder dinner.

Bearings make the world go ‘round.

Every once in a while I forget why we have design systems. Like, when has creating a bureaucracy ever made our lives better? And then I watch designers on the same team redesign buttons over and over and it's like, "Oh. Yeah."