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Guy Segal

@guysegal.com
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Design director working on design systems and people systems. Can fake a decent guitar riff. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. He/him. Views are my own. 🩷💜💙 I talk to cool design folks on my podcast designdowntime.com Toronto, ON, Canada

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Belmonium @belmonium.bsky.social · 4h
Reading is a wonderful hobby because it lets you bedrot with moral superiority.
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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/09/2026
✍️ The AI Artist Paradox heydonworks.com/article/the-... Where AI is *either* intelligent or unintelligent, its usage precludes you from making art.
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The AI Artist Paradox
Whichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist.
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bringing dead batteries back to life is revolting
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 26/09/2026
I feel honoured and blessed to read LinkedIn posts like “my husband and I celebrated 20 years of marriage… and, as usual, I can’t stop thinking about business.”
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 25/09/2026
The fact the replies aren’t just a stream of Kim Gordon photos is a real shame. (Photo with 2nd correct answer as a bonus)
Kim Gordon and Kim Deal from the Little Trouble Girl video
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 24/09/2026
I had a lovely chat (in English) with @stephanietuerk.net about all the languages she knows!
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Stephanie Tuerk Loves Learning Languages | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
No need to break your Duolingo streak, when Stephanie Tuerk joins us to make a case for learning languages. She traces her journey from high school French to PhD-era German to humbling Russian, arguin...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 23/09/2026
Happy Bi-visibility Day!
Bisexual flag on a flag pole
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 17/09/2026
We went extremely fast from “no AI written code will be released without human review” to “humans review the really important updates”. The next step will arrive even faster.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 13/09/2026
Am I really going to rewatch Tommy Wiseau’s Big Shark today? Why, yes. Yes, I am.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 13/09/2026
This one felt really good I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 13th 2026 (Hard), in 05:05 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 10/09/2026
I’m betting cash money they asked an LLM what the title should be
Announcement from Sony Pictures: “It’s official! The live-action film of the legend of Zelda, currently in production, will be titled the legend of Zelda “
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 10/09/2026
I wish people read articles before commenting based on their own projections of what they say, but I’m afraid world peace is a more attainable goal at this point.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 10/09/2026
The second biggest Zelda event of the week! Listen to my chat with @bell.bz about Link and the gang. This episode (Hy)rules!
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Andy Bell Loves The Legend of Zelda | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this episode where Andy Bell joins us to talk about his lifelong obsession with the Legend of Zelda. He explores what makes the franchise compelling: its creativity, h...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 09/09/2026
“A design system is like Lego…” Or is it?
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Why LEGO was never the right metaphor for a design system - zeroheight
Guy Segal explores what the LEGO metaphor gets wrong about design systems, from governance and maintenance to adoption and trust.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 08/09/2026
Vibe coding fans focus on “everyone can make a thing” as a way to break free of tech monopolies. I’m still waiting for “vibes support” and “vibe maintenance” to enter the picture.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 07/09/2026
The only bad thing about celebrating Labour Day is all the US posts misspelling the name of the day.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 07/09/2026
Scariest teaser trailer
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 05/09/2026
“Claude, make me hate brisket forever”
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 31/08/2026
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 18/10/2024
Hello new followers! I'm a design director from Toronto, working on design systems. I also host a podcast called Design Downtime, where I talk to design professionals about a hobby or interest of theirs that has nothing to do with work, because it's ok to not be about productivity 24/7!
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Design Downtime
"Design Downtime" celebrates the joys of living a balanced creative life outside the pixels and wireframes. Join your host, Guy Segal, a design director, on this journey to redefine what it means to b...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 01/09/2026
The intellectual laziness of saying vibe coding is just like using a compiler, because they both turn input into lower level code, is astounding.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 31/08/2026
Your seasonal reminder that DHH is still a xenophobic white supremacist, and all-around garbage human.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 30/08/2026
This news makes the movie a must watch
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A woman invites her brother over to see her new smart home gadgets.
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Sophie @localghost.dev · 29/08/2026
Returning to owning things in a streaming world: buying CDs again (and rediscovering some old loves) localghost.dev/blog/returni...
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Returning to owning things in a streaming world - localghost
In 2011, I sold my CD collection; in 2026 I bought it back again. (Well, the good bits.)
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 29/08/2026
A college professor goes to Europe to return his dad’s journal.
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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I really enjoyed this conversation. Guy always had a good follow up question to build an interesting narrative. If you draw or illustrate but not professionally this might be for you!
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 27/08/2026
Art, experimentation, aphantasia, and perfectionism! All these and more in this episode of Design Downtime, featuring @folletto.bsky.social
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Erin Casali Loves Illustrating | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
A picture is worth a thousand words when Erin Casali joins us to share about her illustration practice. She reflects on not being able to visualize images in her mind, which makes her process generati...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 26/08/2026
10/10 album
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blayne the hag @ewhag.com · 25/08/2026
hot take but those who claim to want progress while posting to nazi-forward substack are very similar to those who claim to support trans people while accepting harry potter roles
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 24/08/2026
Pavel is clearly in the clutches of Big Meeting with this “talk to people” and “align on stuff” nonsense.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 23/08/2026
The mighty butter tart
A plate of delicious butter tarts with a Canadian flag
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 23/08/2026
I miss the days when discourse (online or otherwise) was more "tell me more about what you mean" and less "here's why you're wrong"
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 22/08/2026
I’ve listened to this album so many times
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Mass Romantic
YouTube video by The New Pornographers - Topic
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 21/08/2026
Normalize not reading substacks
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 20/08/2026
I love it when people on the podcast talk about things I know absolutely nothing about!
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Jenny Dee Brecheisen Loves Barrel Racing | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Saddle up and start your stopwatch, when Jenny Dee Brecheisen joins us to talk about her passion for barrel racing. She shares how it completely transformed her life, from city dweller to 10-acre land...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 21/06/2026
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by AI psychosis
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 16/08/2026
“I’m excited to see how AI will make us more human” I have good news for you - you can be human without it!
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 16/08/2026
If you prioritize “moving fast” over “quality”, you never get to complain about any product’s UX ever again.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 16/08/2026
Not publishing your newsletter on a Nazi platform has never been easier!
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 14/08/2026
“Save your receipts”
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 14/08/2026
A phenomenal board game publisher where the publishing criteria is “does this game have something to say?”
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 13/08/2026
Reason #1,703 to run away from Shopify
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 13/08/2026
Being in a band is cool, claims @lurkmoophy.bsky.social It also helps that it’s a really good one, like the @brutalligators.bsky.social
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Luke Murphy Loves Being in a Band | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
It's not all mosh pits and crowdsurfing when Luke Murphy joins us to talk about nearly 20 years of band life. They talk about the sharp contrast between recording an album and the rush of performing i...
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 12/08/2026
I really like @404media.co, they feel like one of the last few independent outposts of tech journalism. So why the fuck are they using and promoting shopify?!
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 11/08/2026
99% of “this is how you use AI for maximum output” posts prove that people have no idea how LLMs work.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 10/08/2026
People prompt an LLM and declare “I have made the thing”, only for the recipient of said thing to do the Tim Robinson “you sure about that?”
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 08/08/2026
I have never scrolled below the fold and I don’t plan to start now.
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 08/08/2026
These posts are why I keep paying the $3.99 monthly Bluesky subscription
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 06/08/2026
Anyone else here used to unleash a kaiju on their city in SimCity? New episode out now!
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Odette Jansen Loves City-Building Games | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
We built this city, or rather Odette Jansen did, as she joins us to explore her deep love of city-building games. She talks about being drawn to games with genuine depth and resource management challe...
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