This week, we talk through our playbook for shipping personal projects. In The Sidebar, we weigh the tradeoffs of building an online persona. Should designers thought lead?

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In this week's Sidebar, Karl asks: Where do you both land on the idea of having a web presence that is focused on showcasing your opinion versus showcasing your work?

Follow up:

We reflect on our 2020 goals, and think about the year ahead. Listen to our 2020 goals episode from a year ago.

• 2020 goals:

  • Marshall: ship a SwiftUI app, update personal website
  • Brian: Write more, revenue generating side project

• 2021 Goals:

  • Marshall: Be more like Ted Lasso whenever possible
  • Brian: Shifting creation:consumption ratio

Tweets:

• Keaton Taylor asked for an example of the variant grid in Figma that Marshall uses. Here's Marshall's sample file.
• Gabriel Valdivia made concept show art, among many other podcasts. We dig!

Main topic:

Michael Knepprath asks: Do you have a checklist you run through when launching new products or features? Also, is Product Hunt as important as it used to be for this?

• Check out lily dex on the App Store!

Cool Things:

• Brian shared Darkroom, a fantastic iOS, iPadOS, and now macOS application for editing your photos.
• Marshall shared the iFixIt Pro Tech Toolkit, a wonderful set of tools for getting into the meat of your electronics.

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