Brett Marlin(@brettmarlin):"Refuse to confuse done with good." "Give them room to explore and protect the strange." "The best practices haven't been invented yet." Katie Dill delivered all three today at Lenny & Friends, talking to leaders about how to treat designers right now. I got chills for real. We're all out here building with AI and choosing, whether we know it or not, between raising the bar and regressing to the mean for the sake of speed. Katie's talk was a clarion call for choosing the harder one. There's a theme emerging across the talks: how to do fewer things better, even as we're able to do everything faster. More on that later

2026.09.10 19:58

"Refuse to confuse done with good." "Give them room to explore and protect the strange." "The best practices haven't been invented yet." Katie Dill delivered all three today at Lenny & Friends, talking to leaders about how to treat designers right now. I got chills for real. We're all out here building with AI and choosing, whether we know it or not, between raising the bar and regressing to the mean for the sake of speed. Katie's talk was a clarion call for choosing the harder one. There's a theme emerging across the talks: how to do fewer things better, even as we're able to do everything faster. More on that later