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Mike Davidson

@mikeindustries.com
4.1K followers 223 following 701 posts

Head of Design for Microsoft AI. Designed some other products you have probably used like Twitter (sorry!) and ESPN.com. Showerhead connoisseur and conscientious shoelace objector.

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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 18/09/2026
Finally finished the series finale of The Boys on Amazon. Truly one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as @minakimes.bsky.social would say. I even loved the candid shots of the actors and crew as the credits rolled. Must have been so fun to make. A+
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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/09/2026
Nicely done. 🫡
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 08/09/2026
Been feelin' this a lot lately. Having more fun building a meticulously dialed app for myself and some friends than I ever have for the masses. www.nyn.me/blog/the-sin...
nyn.me
The Singular Viable Product
Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 31/08/2026
Can't believe it took me this long to sort my Downloads folder in dialog boxes by date. Giant timesaver, and it's persistent.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/08/2026
I do not recall Holiday Grapes ever coming this early in the year. We may be heading towards violent heat death of the universe, but we will be extremely well-graped when it happens. 🙌🔥🍇
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No, he took a swing at the president, noting that the president would rather spend time with her on his plane than do his job. If I complain that my son is spending all his time at the beach instead of doing chores, I am not actually "taking a swing at the beach"
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 16/08/2026
I almost never buy things at duty-free but if you are in Heathrow anytime soon, the Yamazaki 18 is a great deal right now. A few hundred bucks off.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 01/08/2026
Feature request: Airpause. Pause your spouse’s AirPods remotely instead of saying the same thing multiple times before realizing they can’t hear you.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 31/07/2026
Imagine commissioning a 33-bedroom house and building only one extra bathroom across the entire thing.
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 29/07/2026
The supply of exceedingly tiny violins has also hit an all-time low in New York.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 26/07/2026
Gen X captcha
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 23/07/2026
Yet another bizarre permutation of the term “out of pocket”. At this point, I am convinced people are just substituting the word “pocket” for any other word that appears after “out of”.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 19/07/2026
Fun little game. Guess the World Cup winner by different categories. I got Life Expectancy and Happiness right and CO2 emissions very very wrong. www.dataguessr.com/world-cup-20...
dataguessr.com
Dataguessr World Cup 2026 edition
Pick a metric, guess the champions, and see the knockout phase play out.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 13/07/2026
Wrote a little about Om, a guy I will miss. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...
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A Loving and Well-Loved Man » Mike Industries
A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 12/07/2026
Hooboy, that final sentence slays. Don't cheat. Read the whole thing. lizleatrice.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/07/2026
Cheddar people: I have crossed the frontier into 5-year extra-aged, and I can confidently report that it is a bridge too far. 4-year is the sweet spot. Beechers if possible.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 30/06/2026
Words that have never been spoken: “This tastes over-buttered”.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 22/06/2026
Longest pizza day of the pizza year! Can’t believe I waited this long to experiment with pastrami.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 07/06/2026
Met my wife 20 years ago today. Started dating her 19 years ago today. Still can’t believe she is willing to associate herself with me but I will take it! 🙌
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 06/06/2026
Honestly, the thing I've learned the most while Claudecoding is the important of "idempotency". A word I had never heard before, still don't know exactly what it is, or how to pronounce it, but am constantly reminded of its importance.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 04/06/2026
Imagine being a 17-year old kid at a show at the Triple Door, and the musician asks if anyone in the crowd can play any of his songs, and you are the one person to raise your hand, because you can play *1* song, written 5 years before you were even born. And then you go on stage, and you crush it. 🙌
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 29/05/2026
I built an app over the last few weekends that is already my favorite app on my phone. I have about 15 people on the TestFlight but I kind of never want to release it to genpop. Has anyone ever released an app as “friendware”? Not accessible on the AppStore, but by private invitation only.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/05/2026
Can’t believe I haven’t turned on Stage Manager in MacOS until now. Worth it for the clean desktop alone!
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/05/2026
When a multi-year Kickstarter dream comes true, here’s to you. 🙌 @genmon.fyi
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 14/05/2026
Florence… at the past and future home of the Seattle Supersonics. 🙌
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 04/05/2026
I am pretty sure the cute little thing where Claude Code tells you it's "going to be about 4 weeks of work" is a deliberate, time-release humble brag.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 30/04/2026
Still works! #IYKYK 🐣
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 25/04/2026
“It’s great seeing this design work at low fidelity.” “This is not low fidelity.” 💀
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 18/04/2026
I wonder why Apple even allows apps to spawn app-store review prompts that don't use its built-in logic. It might be too hard to prevent. You could at least prevent it by policy and then ban for non-compliance. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
daringfireball.net
Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
Link to: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ratings-and-reviews#Best-practices
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/04/2026
"This was an entirely unforeseeable usage of the tombstone functionality of Oregon Trail. If anything, our zeal for the social sharing of sensitive medical information was way ahead of its time."
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Oregon Trail is Changing So That We Share Less of Your Private Dysentery Information
“If you died of dysentery between 1986 and 1993 while playing Oregon Trail, that information was likely shared with your cousins, neighbors, or other persons...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 13/04/2026
Haven’t been much of a Gatorade fan since the days of glass bottles, but this Lower Sugar stuff is really good. Only 50 calories for 28 ounces, nice mild flavor, no gross aftertaste. Could even dilute it down another 25% if you wanted.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 12/04/2026
Even *this* guy knows how to concede.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 12/04/2026
"Everything that can be figured out based on disparate clues scattered across different documents *will* be figured out, in the next few years." www.thediff.co/archive/long...
thediff.co
Longreads + Open Thread
Religion, Reading, Bugs, Japan, Science, IPOs, Barbell Portfolios
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/04/2026
#cat
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/04/2026
New favorite protein bars. 16g protein, 160 calories, 6g sugar and no other sweeteners. Tastes like the biggest marshmallow you ever ate. All flavors good. a.co/d/0bu0jJJY
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melō protein bars (6 count, Sampler Pack)- high protein, low sugar, fluffy marshmallow-like center, gluten free snack with no artificial sweeteners
Amazon.com : melō protein bars (6 count, Sampler Pack)- high protein, low sugar, fluffy marshmallow-like center, gluten free snack with no artificial sweeteners : Health & Household
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/04/2026
"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." (via @anildash.com) www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...
liberalcurrents.com
After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech
Carter was panned at the time and long after, but has been vindicated.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 10/04/2026
Updated this post so it plays the '80s music if you click on the section headings.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 07/04/2026
Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...
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Tips for Designers on Making it Through 2026 to the Other Side » Mike Industries
If you’re in tech and you don’t have at least a little career anxiety right now, you are either overly confident or you aren’t paying attention. Engineers are jittery. PMs are jittery. Designers and R...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 05/04/2026
Easter, to me, is about one thing: remembering Pope Francis getting hella real on Twitter for a hot second in 2015.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 03/04/2026
I like an LLM that shares my exact definition of "fine".
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 02/04/2026
Excited for the release of noon.design today. If you feel like we are at a transitional stage right now where no design or development tool feels “just right” for the new age we are in, you are not alone.
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Noon
Noon raised $44M to build a new home for product design. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design how it looks and how it works. With AI at its core th...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 29/03/2026
Still can't believe no one has made an excellent savory protein bar yet. Just start with peanuts, add some whey, and spice it up with cayenne and soy sauce. Basically like a Bear Bar but with some actual protein: bearbar.com
bearbar.com
Bear Bar
Bear Bar, the original, organic, savory snack.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/03/2026
The National Design Studio is really doing some bang-up work.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/03/2026
"We are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 21/03/2026
Paradise on Hulu is worth watching for the 80s covers alone. 🔥
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 16/03/2026
I feel like I have heard two or three more wildly different uses for this phrase.
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 28/02/2026
"We are entering the industrial age of the digital age." A nice reflection by Greg Knauss about what we're losing in the age of generated software. We all feel this, whether we talk about it or not. www.eod.com/blog/2026/02...
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