l<. – life, work, etc.

Grade A Content

This is pretty much everything good (funny) on Twitter in the last 6 months. I stick around for the laughs at this point.

Wordle content

Me: How about we go out to the steakhouse tonight?

Her: ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜

Me: We could try the new Indian place

Her: 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨

Me: I’ll pick up Indian, bring it home & eat while we watch 4 eps of Project Runway

Her: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— Scott Simpson (@scottsimpson) January 10, 2022

[youth pastor voice] wordle? you know whose WORD 'LL change your life?

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️
⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️
⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️
⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️
⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️
— J.R.R. Jokin (@joshcarlosjosh) January 9, 2022

BuSiNeSs Content

Gonna be hell when LinkedIn finds out about this tree. https://t.co/VElGB60dn2
— Nick Walker (@nickw84) January 8, 2022

Made this with CSS. Tutorial coming soon pic.twitter.com/mie2qdfWWh
— Ale ☻ (@pokecoder) December 12, 2021

If you work at Facebook, and you don’t end your reviews by asking your manager, “how about a sweet baby raise”, what are you even doing
— Joe Groff (@jckarter) December 1, 2021

“What’s a product designer?”

Me: pic.twitter.com/fLkSKmA3mf
— kris (@krismendoza_) July 29, 2021

Relatable Content

actually i don’t need gas anymore pic.twitter.com/ZleVKHKJ5j
— Nojah (@novaslaps) December 5, 2021

me this year pic.twitter.com/RQsBhOiwjT
— oryn (@3dLooks) August 14, 2021

I only have 2 moods. pic.twitter.com/SjHUHTp6TZ
— yoon (@sojyoo) June 7, 2021

me and the girls after one glass of wine pic.twitter.com/9yM46ZItQY
— Carrie Wittmer 🐊 (@carriesnotscary) July 1, 2021

I love garbage day get that shit out of here. Thank you
— Perfume Genius (@perfumegenius) May 21, 2021

me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles

god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying
— Shelf (@shelfcomedy) September 30, 2021

Some of you have huge “I have married parents” vibes
— Michael Benjamin (@mfbenji) September 7, 2021

do you ever leave a social situation and you're just like mmm that was not my best work
— Delia Cai (@delia_cai) August 24, 2021

Solid Meme Content

Whooooooo did this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/dCGH5bTxhS
— The Notorious JSC (@jenniesweetcush) August 23, 2021

britney spears invented anime pic.twitter.com/bMl64lccSA
— j (@beysupdates) July 2, 2021

Text messages between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani today at the #Theranos trial.

Holmes:
"You are the breeze in desert for me."
"My water."
"And ocean."
"Meant to be only together tiger."

Balwani: "OK"
— scott budman (@scottbudman) September 22, 2021

And because I still follow a few people making cool stuff, I’ll end this with some Not-Funny Content

Good, Eye Candy Content

RISO animation on card catalog cards
(!! it WORKED!! ) pic.twitter.com/kaJjiEhIk1
— kelli anderson (@kellianderson) January 4, 2022

Few old ones pic.twitter.com/tcb76cXyAa
— James Gilleard (@jgilleard) August 10, 2021

This is really beautiful work, and EXACTLY why I look forward to being a part of the future of #WordPress themes/design.✌️ https://t.co/FwzFJfgdkT
— Brian Gardner (@bgardner) August 2, 2021

july patreon wallpapers 💙🌊🐠 pic.twitter.com/xhEQw1Zzxv
— Nadaskii (@nadaskii) July 9, 2021

pic.twitter.com/p8KpzJRX4v
— Liminal Spaces (@SpaceLiminalBot) July 5, 2021

I spent time on Friday doing one of my favorite things: building something weird with WordPress. 🙂

Read about it here: https://t.co/W9fZg1DRN5 pic.twitter.com/QIEfuoTcVd
— kjellr (@kjellr) June 7, 2021

Kelly Hoffman

January 17, 2022

Thoughts
Wordle

We’ve been doing the NYT crossword together every night for the past several months, which is a lovely way to end the day. This week, we started playing Wordle after seeing half the internet playing it. It’s so good. Here are the first four results, which are just fun to share. Can’t tell if we have beginner’s luck or if the crossword playing is helping. Probably a bit of both.

Wordle 204 2/6

⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 205 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 206 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 207 5/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Kelly Hoffman

January 11, 2022

Thoughts
Books in 2021

I’m still listening to books with the only exception being the physical books I bring along with me on camping trips in the van.

The books that have stayed with me
Ones I couldn’t stop thinking and/or talking about.

Ones I revisited

Getting Unstuck & From Fear to Fearlessness are recordings of Pema Chödrön giving talks on weekend retreats. I love listening to her and went back to both of these several times throughout the year.

Full list
with a ★ next to books I’d recommend to most anyone who asked.

The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig ★

Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney

Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson ★

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ★

From Fear to Fearlessness
by Pema Chödrön

Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

Getting Unstuck by Pema Chödrön

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★ (oops, I had this on last years list)

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis

How to Weep in Public
by Jacqueline Novak

The Gifts of Imperfection
by Brené Brown

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Searcher by Tana French

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Group by Christie Tate

And the books I’m in the middle of that I’ll carry into 2022 are Dune, Outline, and Hidden Valley Road.

Kelly Hoffman

January 9, 2022

Thoughts
AIARE 1 avalanche course
I took a 4 day avalanche course by Baker Mountain Guides the week of Christmas in the Mt. Baker backcountry. I’ve been casually doing some backcountry stuff the past few years, but never pulled the trigger on buying avi gear or taking a class, which isn’t super smart or safe. The first two days were over Zoom with a firehose of information – logging it all here for future reference.

General info & videos to review regularly
Trip planning
- NWAC Avalanche forecast for Baker
- NWAC Avalanche forecast for Snoqualmie
- Windy TV weather
- NOAA Point Forecast
- Mountain Forecast
- Hill map
- Caltopo maps
Where we went

Day 3 was our first day in the field. Built a snow pit to analyze the snowpack and practiced recovery using our beacons, probe, and shovel.

Forth and final day, went on a tour we planned the night before. Was an epic powder day with waist deep snow.

Photos
Kelly Hoffman

January 8, 2022

Thoughts
ggslides.com

Grandmother & Grandfather always took pictures using slide film and we’d watch them on a projector in their living room – from their travels and just daily life. My cousin scanned 1,500 of them, from the 1960s to the early 2000s. They were scattered across different Google Photos links and I wanted an easy way to look at them and share with others so I created a site: ggslides.com. A few faves:

Kelly Hoffman

January 7, 2022

Thoughts
Storm edit

Grabbed a few pow laps this afternoon after a 2 foot dump. Brought the GoPro along to make a quick lil edit and because it has been a while since I strung some clips together to music. After a slow start, it’s turning out to be such a good season.

Kelly Hoffman

January 4, 2022

Thoughts
WordPress ♡ Design

Really excited about all the design work we put into WordPress this past year. Both within the product itself as well as in our external communications, as seen in this video I worked on that highlights all the cool stuff we are about to release. Super proud of the team working on this with me. We’re really just getting started and I’m ready to keep going to make WordPress an intuitive, well-designed experience for all.

Kelly Hoffman

January 3, 2022

Thoughts
Strava 2021 year in review

Big fan of Strava’s year in review design.

I use Strava record all my rides, runs, and snowboard adventures since 2016. The past couple years I’ve hovered around 2k miles on the bike, which feels pretty solid. My favorite times on the bike this year were bikepacking with friends and I hope to keep that up this year. I’d also like to add a lot more days on snow.

Kelly Hoffman

January 1, 2022

Thoughts
Favorite books of 2020
I listened to a bunch of books last year. On walks with the dog, on the way to and from mountain biking and snowboarding, and on countless road bike rides around town. These were my favorite:
OVERALL, FICTION
Ealonor Olyphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
This book was hilarious but also wrecked me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and has stayed with me more than any other book has.

OVERALL, NONFICTION
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
I mean, who doesn’t want to know what therapists really think, how they work, and what they talk about with their own therapists? Also, it’s hilarious.

SAD
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
I need a good sad book every once in a while.

BIZ
Powerful by Patty McCord
Practical and no-nonsense. I listened to this twice and then re-listened to certain bits. I was going through a tough time at work and this book was one of the things that helped me through it.

ENTERTAINING
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Love the format, almost felt like you were listening to a music documentary. Read by a bunch of different actors. Made me start listening to Fleetwood Mac again.

LOVE STORY
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Who knew I needed a love story? A full life lived.

Full list:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Powerful by Patti McCord, Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, Ealonor Olyphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, The Nix by Nathan Hill, Where’d you go Bernadette by Maria Semple, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, In the Woods by Tana French, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, There There by Tommy Orange, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, Self Compassion by Kristin Neff, Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter.
Kelly Hoffman

February 25, 2021

Thoughts
Solution mode
I tend to think about things for a bit before sharing with others. I also really like to fix things. This combination can sometimes lead to jumping into solution mode really fast when I’m discussing with others. This happened yesterday when I realized the person I was having a conversation with didn’t even agree on the same problem I was coming to him with. And I was already talking about potential solutions! Our conversation didn’t get far and I had to back up and start again.

Since a big part of my job is coming up with solutions, I think it’s important to get it right. It’s also important to know when solutions are necessary. I jotted these notes down based on my conversation yesterday and others that I’ve learned from in the past:

When someone is coming to me with a problem:
1. Listen.
2. Give them a very quick high level overview of what they are saying so you know you have it right.
3. Ask if it’s something they want help with solving or if they are just venting. If they are just venting, move on to other topics.
4. If they want a solution: Agree on the problem(s) they would like to solve. Contribute additional info and suggestions if needed.
5. Ask them for their thoughts on how to solve. Add your suggestions and agree on a path forward.
6. Follow though and follow up.
When I’m going to someone with a problem I’m observing that directly effects me:
1. Clearly communicate the problem from my perspective.
2. Ask if they understand to get on the same page with them about problem I’m trying to solve.
3. See if they agree it’s a problem to solve. If it is, ask the other person for their thoughts on how to solve. Add your suggestions.
4. Agree on a path forward. Make it clear who will do what.
5. Follow though and follow up.
Kelly Hoffman

January 18, 2021

Thoughts

Wordle content

BuSiNeSs Content

Relatable Content

Solid Meme Content

Good, Eye Candy Content

Where we went

Photos