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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I only met Dave once at the wedding of a mutual friend but we connected w/ his beautiful fam & stayed in touch. He wanted to teach but died before he could finish school. His family is building this lovely scholarship to honor the impact he would’ve had on students. Donate here: gofund.me/c118f2833

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Donate to Support The Dave Perreault Memorial Scholarship Awards, organized by Matthew Perreault

In September of 2024, we tragically lost our very dear friend… Matthew Perreault needs your support for Support The Dave Perreault Memorial Scholarship Awards

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Also it’s been a long time since I blue-sk’d. Feels good. Hi.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I like this take specifically bc it is from a writer. If writing technology isn’t working for writers, the technology has to change.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is officially happening now. I'm gonna publish at least one draft today 💪 #MediumDraftDay "it's such an important time to tell human stories"

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I’m looking for a senior/staff level content designer to do some contract work at Medium. Lmk if you have a referral, send me links! Part time to start, but worth building on—great place on the internet to write for product. ✍️ #hiring #contract #contentdesign #writing

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I have a zillion drafts on Medium and I am excited to use Draft Day this Friday to finish at least ONE of them. Join me, let's hang out and write! blog.medium.com/your-story-m...

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Your story matters: Join us on April 25th for Draft Day 2025

Hit publish with us and find connections at Medium’s second annual (Finish Your) Draft Day

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It’s very nice to make something by hand every now and again, and I am proud of this cushion I made. She’s simple, but sturdy.

A sturdy denim looking (but soft) fabric cushion, long and plush with nice straight seams.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm very proud to work at a company where people live by their values and are willing to state them clearly, even when (and especially when) it isn't expedient to do so. 👏👏👏

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not the world I want to live in

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Our team is listening to a Medium user, Isaac Harvey, a writer and disability advocate, an inspiring human being who is trying to build his Medium following. Give him a follow here: medium.com/@iamisaachar...

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Isaac Harvey MBE – Medium

Read writing from Isaac Harvey MBE on Medium. Disability advocate, content creator who is sharing unique stories from overcoming barriers to embracing life.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Found this behind mom’s dresser while moving her in this week. Throwback to anyone who was in Ohio 13 years ago

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today is my third 6mo follow up for glaucoma testing. There’s never any issue, I simply seem to have large optic nerve sockets, so I can’t figure out if this is my eye drs money making scheme or maybe just what good preventative care feels like. Fine line?

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

There’s nothing I like more on social these days than a highlight notification. ✔️Someone read a thing I wrote ✔️ It meant something to them ✔️ They wanted to share back with me, the writer No ego or manipulation. In its simplest form it’s connective & interrogative. We need more spaces like these.

An email notification from Medium telling me Harris Sockel has highlighted a line from one of my stories

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Final inspection tomorrow for the accessible addition we built for my mom. Permits were approved Mar 1, 2024 after a long battle with the city. A million tiny decisions & sacrifices since. In some ways the journey is just beginning. Still some bits to finish. But I’m proud of this. Lifetime proud.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Doing this tonight. Reliving high school

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Something people won’t know about Medium is that we have absolutely world class offsites. I’ve never seen or been a part of better ones, and this last in Newport was the best. This is almost entirely courtesy of @brikolson.bsky.social But don’t steal him, he is very beloved here. Thank you Brik.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I love interviewing. And I hate it. It‘s amazing to meet so many inspiring people, & terrible that I don’t have options for everyone. Medium attracts people w/ heart & this process is so gruelling for them, I know. Keep writing & sharing. The heart is infectious and always worth something.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Washed my partner’s iPods in the laundry. He says they came out sounding better 😂

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My best advice right now is ask questions before you waste energy getting mad. If you have all the info and are still mad, more power to you—what will you do about it?

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We're hiring a Principal Product Designer @medium.com & I wrote a little bit about what the job looks like, what kinds of things you'd work on, what to expect from me as a manager, etc. Have a look! #hiring #design medium.design/opening-a-ne...

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Opening a new Principal Product Designer Role at Medium

We’re looking for a new super senior designer to join our excellent team. Here’s more about what the job entails.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Nothing quite prepared me for life at a startup like having two kids. Change is the only constant.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Visited The Lynx bookstore this weekend with Mom and it was every bit as wonderful as I imagined, what a Florida haven. Spotted @kristenarnett.bsky.social on the staff picks 💅

Big bookstore with long tables, wood floors and beautiful books

Mom and I outside the store in front of the painted lynx mural

Mom with her walker in front of the lynx mural

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Enjoying being back at my alum’s annual design show at UF, c/o 2006 I can hardly believe it’s been this long

Lecture hall the back of heads, a slide on screen says Ligature 34

Me outside with building in the background

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

this tariff thing is a classic systems design error. pulling in one area thinking it won't effect the others. it's disappointing and hurts a lot of people, but i'm trying not to let basic errors infuriate me b/c they are surely a tactic and distraction from something even more insidious.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Today’s project. 50 baseboards, ten doors (two sides, two coats each)

Baseboards in a row laying across boards to dry outside

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I sang my brother happy birthday on a voicemail and he says he’s posted the audio file and tagged me on linkedin. Once a brother always a brother 😂 *nervously goes to check LinkedIn*

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hi new friends. 👋 What starter pack are you finding me from today? 👀

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I still think there’s a way to do social media that is in alignment with your values and fully living your life. Like contacts. Subtly there. Enhancing.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

this is such an american poem. it isn't indifference. it's horror, weariness, paradox, an incongruous sublimity. recognition it could happen to any of us + we're doing it to ourselves. a scale of suffering that links everyone/thing. this captures all of that. www.rattle.com/la-is-burnin...

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Finally published my first piece of the year on Medium – my "2025 Disclosures", a breezy confessional type thing. It's still hard to press publish no matter how much I've done it in the past. cassiebegins.medium.com/2025-disclos...

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2025 Disclosures

An annual statement on what I believe & how it influences me

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Marie Kondo is wrong about socks.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"You've been nominated as a Top Woman Leader, please register for $495 to be listed as such"

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Back to work today! I'm all about photos & vacation stories. We're reading The Culture Map for book club at work & it showed me, having worked in UK & Canada, I need to know my colleagues &—if at all possible—be friends! Caring about lives outside work is a big part of my building trust AT work.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

nerding out & getting organized for back to work tomorrow. 🤓 there's a lot to do for Medium but am also prioritizing: ✔️school pickups & outschool lessons for kids ✔️meal plan & cooking w/ kids (less eating out) ✔️long weekend PTO in Feb, post-work travel ✔️turning my hot compost daily (6wk experiment)

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Zen and the art of scraping ice off your windshield

Me eyebrows furrowed scraping ice off windshield in a Tim hortons parking lot surrounded by snow and grey skies

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Not sure where the sudden influx of followers has come from, but hi, I love bonafide community! 👋 Here’s a scarf I just finished, life has been at knitting pace the past two weeks which has been quite nice

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A friend of mine is trying to buy nothing next year (other than groceries). Maybe I’ll try that? I haven’t thought it completely through, what could go wrong

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I’m a beginner knitter, but it seemed sweet to knit a bookmark together with my girls for my grandma’s birthday (she taught all three of us to knit). She is 99 today, born Dec 21, 1925.

A narrow knit bookmark, rustic purples and blues with a tapered end and tassels

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

i think i just presented to 80% of the company with marmite on my chin 😂

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

you know how if you need a new dishwasher or washer/dryer/fridge, or you want a new light fixture or to paint a wall or two, maybe build a patio... you might spend a week on any one of those decisions, each a big project in their own right. we are doing ALL that for my mom's this week, it's insane

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Today I REALLY needed solitude. I found it (it was given) and I feel 1000x better.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just finished a config talk submission, and man am I excited to tell this story one way or another.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We posted a new role last night for @medium.com. Hands on, super senior product role w/ a huge amount of influence, working with really wonderful people on a mission unlike anything else that exists in our industry today (& in a profitable biz!) #hiring #product medium.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

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Principal Product Manager

Job Opening: Principal Product Manager at Medium in Remote - US.

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Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lead = present tense. "I will lead," or "I am leading." Led = past tense. "I led that project last August." Mistaking these words for each other is egregious b/c we generally expect leaders to be able to communicate well (and to, well, spell well). xo, your Tuesday morning spelling police.

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