UX designer by day, suburban dad/husband by night. he/him @aelman@masto.ai on Mastodon, @aelman.bsky.social

Joined April 2007
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As far as I can tell this was my first tweet. Seems an appropriate one to go out on.
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hey @Lowes, thanks for ruining my and my wife's entire day by promising to deliver a fridge today bet. 9 and 1, only for us to discover - at 3PM, after HOURS on the phone with your customer service - that the fridge was sitting at the store, with no plans to deliver today.
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And this is after screwing up the *first* delivery time by promising to deliver between 12 and 4 yesterday when I ordered, then the night before inexplicably shifting the delivery window to 9-12 yesterday, leaving us no time to actually empty the existing fridge.
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And of course the online order tracking still says it's coming today. We're cancelling the order and buying from a competitor. I know you guys are understaffed and overworked, but this is RIDICULOUSLY inept. Thanks for nothing.
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…and the fact that the President of the United States feels the need to point this out is mortifying. How low have we sunk as a society?
I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
Just like using a keyboard, #VoiceTech & #CAI allows users to communicate with a computer. Watch @aelman from @alexa99 talk to @LisaFalkson and Chris Seifert in their #VOICE22 session, Better Together: Using Multimodal Design to Create Delightful #CX: bit.ly/3OSCJ11
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I went and joined Post, but I think everybody should really move to the Fediverse. 😀post.news/article/2I3Hr94dNB…

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OK, that wasn’t my last tweet. And this might not be either. But I’m definitely reducing the time spent here after the frankly evil actions of the current owner of this site. Come find me on Mastodon/the Fediverse at @aelman@masto.ai .
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
19 Nov 2022
Voiceflow is hiring for several roles rn: - Sr Account Executive - Sr Customer Success Manager - Sr Product Designer DM me!
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
18 Nov 2022
it appears we are back in the darkest timeline. Cool. Cool, Cool, Cool.
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
I would just like to say thank you to all the amazing people who built and kept Twitter running. The good has far outweighed the bad. For a good long time this was like the best cocktail party ever.
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
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While a number of people in the replies are taking this literally, this is a joke. Just a few days earlier, this same user claimed to have been laid off by a different company: twitter.com/anothercohen/s…
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RT @ayabdeen: No WNBA player should ever go to Russia to play basketball ever again after how the country treated Brittney Griner, who's be…
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
For all the diligent people still working on the birdsite, if you're thinking of quitting but worried about the customers of your products, don't worry about us. Take care of YOU first. We'll be just fine.
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.
This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley.
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
4 Nov 2022
Goes without sayin, but actual free speech isn’t dependent on whether Arby’s buys enough ads to promote two for one roast beef sandwiches
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Adam Elman aka @aelman@masto.ai retweeted
I'm just gonna leave this here for the next few days, in case anybody hasn't seen this. 500 year Columbus memorial in Cusco. Click through, read the translation, etc. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
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