Officially registered for the 2025 #NYCMarathon, running for #teamforkids, at the halfway mark in fundraising!!!

This has been a personal goal of mine since I started in 2010!! Thank you all for your support ♥️.

“Let’s gooooo!!!” 💪 🏃‍♀️ ♥️

donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...

It’s not just me. #metaLayoffs

From Business Insider: Meta’s “Low Performers” are fighting back on LinkedIn #solidarity

archive.is/202502180925...

Real Talk about getting laid off from a super famous company: I’ve been cycling in a loop between the same library of emotions. Anger, sadness, relief, optimism, calm, anxiety. Meanwhile everything you read about it is true. Lotta high performers were laidoff to meet quota.

It’s been exactly 36 hours since I was canned from Meta and I already have 3 recruiter phone screens this week with a few more in the pipeline from Hiring Managers and even got a cold-call from an Atlassian recruiter (they are the project management standard in tech).

#metaLayoffs update: wow quite a day with a lot of great leads on new opportunities! It feels super validating being a designer in this crazy universe. Wish me luck!

Part 5: a big part of being a senior (aka lead) #ProductDesigner at #meta is being able to scope and manage large projects that have big impact and satisfy/promote the product and business need. I know I can do this again somewhere else, I’m just sad at the loss of potential success.

Part 4: I’m still in shock and sad and irritated that I won’t get to see my year-long project all the way through. I spent so much effort and time getting support from all areas behind it. Multiple meetings selling it and promoting it and writing proposals for it.

Part 3: these glowing reviews brought me to tears because it was the type praise I never received from anyone else there, even though we regularly had to seek peer feedback every 6 months during our review cycles.

Part 2: the most heartwarming and empathetic -was getting multiple amazing referrals on LinkedIn written by peers who gave me glowing reviews. All by engineering partners and managers and leaders, who I worked with on multiple projects designing solutions for.

Yesterday I learned that almost everyone I knew who got laid off at #meta were high performers and completely blindsided by the sudden low rating and dismissal (including me). Many have reached out to me in support and empathy which I truly appreciate! #metaLayoffs (part 1)

Im so sorry, a lot of people with amazing ratings were thrown under the bus.

Part 4: so if you’re looking for a senior product designer who can lead large initiative, that’s me! Send me a direct message because I am on the hunt again. I like to be continuously moving.

Part 3: I have about 13 years of experience as a product designer, with the last 3 at Meta doing large scale projects across orgs/disciplines; in Infrastructure which is a highly technical space. Before design, I have 15 years of experience as a software engineer in full stack so I can “speak nerd”.

Part 2: this comes as a big surprise to me because I had gotten amazing ratings all year, and my manager did not bring up any issues at all leading up to this point. Personally, I don’t think this is about performance, I think this was about money.

🫡 my time at #Meta has come to an end, today I learned I am part of this most recent layoff cycle. Even though they claim it’s performance based, I had absolutely no notion of performance problems at all leading up to this point. I actually have been getting really great ratings so far. (Part 1)

Grateful for this “random veggie”
discount farm box I got this morning. Tomorrow morning I’m picking up another!

snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot . ALT: snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot .

Is it a 2-coffee kinda day?

TiL Jennifer Love Hewitt released an album named Let’s Go Bang in 1995.

Gulf of AmeriKKKa.

Peaches - TEACHES OF PEACHES documentary teaser YouTube video by PeachesTV

Also #teachesOfPeaches documentary is coming out…

@bubblepipemedia.bsky.social @pengarr.postes.club

…who also never update the graphics when a new song comes on so you’re constantly guessing if it’s Soundgarden or Temple of the Dog or Alice in Chains because all these members played together at different times on different projects together.

Props to this German-language Apple streaming radio station (with bumpers in German too) that plays the BEST stuff from my High School grunge obsession that I will never shake.

a man playing a double bass next to another man playing a guitar with the words chickity china the chinese chicken ALT: a man playing a double bass next to another man playing a guitar with the words chickity china the chinese chicken

Raise your hand if you can still recant all the lyrics to this Barenaked Ladies song 🙋‍♀️

Meal #4 today is the snack between lunch and dinner. FYI I eat ALL THE TIME now.

a bald man wearing glasses and a suit is sitting in front of a microphone with his hands outstretched ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a suit is sitting in front of a microphone with his hands outstretched

Me trying to express my love for you but also being an old person

Ebony Ebony was the co-leader of the Locos and later joined the Mall Rats. Ambitious, manipulative and cunning, Ebony is a complex character who is neither good or purely evil - she often betrays the Mall R...

Don’t lie - you were in love with Ebony weren’t you.

thetribe.fandom.com/wiki/Ebony

two young men are standing next to each other in a room . ALT: two young men are standing next to each other in a room .

Anyone else fondly remember The Tribe (a NZ tv show about kids surviving a post-apoc world after all the adults die)?

How I label my dry goods

Some of the stuff we brought back from Barb’s house after the first clean-out

Finished this on Sunday.