My job right now is building a website. I let it get to my head that it had to "look great" and "be flashier" after getting some feedback from higher ups who have no knowledge of understanding of my project. They got to me and I spent weeks trying to figure out how to make this damn thing look good, and I did. But when I showed it to my boss this Monday she pointed out that while it looked nice, it didn't have any content. What's worse, my design was pretty but rigid, so adding content broke everything.

Monday night, at home after that meeting, I scrapped everything I have design wise. Now I'm just cranking out good content and slotting it into a mediocre, but navigable, design. It's not pretty, but it's so much better.

Outside of that, I've been lurking a lot. I'm trying to pay a lot more attention to the conversations that happen around me in media and what I'm absorbing. I'm also trying to think more before I speak. It's kind of amazing how many places I go to interact are just ignorant shouting matches. Haven't really learned too much from this experiment yet, but it's been interesting.