285: Deadly American Idol
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English - February 27, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 361 ratingsTechnology Arts Design product design ui design software design ux design design design details technology brian lovin marshall bock Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, we discuss spoken accents, answer a listener question about salary negotiations, and Marshall dives deep into the design of Apex Legends. And as always, we share a couple cool things, like a hip hop musical and a way to bring joy back to your Twitter timeline.
Intro:
Jak McCormack wants us to attempt English accents. No thank you, Jak 😜
Follow-up:
Anton Osipov shared a helpful visual for using a unit-based vertical baseline.
Zain Khoja shared studentswho.design, a podcast bridging the gap between students and the design industry - by students, for students.
Listener Questions:
An anonymous listener asks: "I’m about to change jobs and soon I’ll have initial call with someone from one of the companies I could potentially work for. I don’t want to invest too much of my time in multiple calls and meetings with them before being sure the offer meets my expectations, especially in terms of salary. But I also don’t want to be considered as one of those guys who care only about money. So my question is: what’s the right moment to talk about this? Should that be something to talk about during the very first call? Or maybe later? For context: it was the company who reached out to me whether I’d be interested in the role."
HBR wrote about what people want from their jobs.
Explain Like I'm Five:
Marshall goes deep into the world of Apex Legends.
Charlie Deets explains the magic of communication in Apex Legends
Battle Royale, based on the novel by Koushun Takami, is a film from 2000 in which the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act
PUBG, Fortnite, and Call of Duty: Blackout are popular games in the battle royale genre
Respawn Entertainment is the company behind Apex Legends, who are well known for the Titanfall series
Watch Apex Legends to get a better feel for how the game works
One Cool Thing:
Marshall shared Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording), an album from the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Brian shared Tokimeki Unfollow by Julius Tarng, a tool to help you bring joy back to your Twitter timeline, based on Marie Kondo's KonMari method
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