What keeps you up at night?

Answers from the Design Details podcast

Adam Polselli

Apr 11, 2016

Two things are coming to mind. One is, can Dropbox be successful at this? It’s going to be hard and there are some complex challenges. We feel very up to...

Matt D Smith

Feb 24, 2016

The first thing that pops into my head - one of my four children, they wake up in the middle of the night, and it takes away from my sleep....

Kassie Scribner

Feb 24, 2016

Trying to find the balance between my day job which I love—which is UX/UI and doing really awesome web work for really awesome clients—[and] doing my own personal work, which...

Jeff Smith

Feb 24, 2016

It’s kind of an egotistical answer, but ultimately at the end of the day I want to have a large impact on the world. I think for different people that...

Charles Pearson

Feb 24, 2016

There’s a few things. I’m a Dad. My life is really fucking hard. My wife works. She’s got a career, I’ve got a career. We live in The Bay Area....

Aubrey Johnson

Feb 24, 2016

I think the thing that keeps me up at night is relevancy as a designer. I worry about that. I’ve been designing for about 10 years, I’m getting older, and...

Meg Robichaud

Feb 22, 2016

Hustle. I haven’t quite figured out my opinion on this. It’s something I want to talk about but I haven’t figured out how to articulate it. I’m still only half...

Mackey

Feb 22, 2016

What if? As far as I can remember, I very rarely sleep through the night. It’s a constant question that runs through anything I’ve ever done. Just, what if? It’s...

Daniel Burka

Feb 1, 2016

The two things that keep me up at night are, one, that I might get complacent. Working at a venture capital company is a very comfortable job. I get paid...

Randy Hunt

Dec 2, 2015

Something that troubles me—I think it relates to our work—we really like things to be fast. I think there’s a culture of speed. It really worries me because it doesn’t...

Justin Edmund

Nov 25, 2015

What am I doing and is it the right thing? I left Pinterest at a place where normally I wouldn’t have done that. I did it to force myself to...

Joel Califa

Nov 25, 2015

For me it’s hiring. Hiring is really hard and that’s a big source of stress for me lately and is actually probably keeping me up some nights. But more than...

Jessica Harllee

Nov 25, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about taking care of myself and being a basic human. It’s so easy to throw yourself into work or get caught up in something...

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