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Mar 2023
25m 20s

457: How to Find Focus

Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
About this episode

This week, we talk about finding focus when there are infinite things to learn to become a better designer.

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Main Topic:

This week, Blucose asks on GitHub: how do you decide what to focus on? How do you make sure you become a master, rather than a jack of all trades?

Cool Things:

  • Brian shared Posts by read.cv — a new app for designers to hang out and talk shop; it's like Twitter, but for designers, and it looks fantastic.
  • Marshall shared bockwild.com — a wonderful site built by listener Dakshi that highlights some of the buck-wild things Marshall has said on the show.

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