Malthe Sigurdsson
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Design @stripe. Previously @joinHandshake, @Stripe, Rdio (RIP), Skype (RIP?). Danish. Pronounced like the island.
San Francisco, CA.
Joined January 2007
Literally curled up on the sofa with a good book. Oh, to be 8 years old again. http://t.co/XyFKx5tG8Z.
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Genius. @mortenjust made a text editor that only allow the 1,000 most used words in English.
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It's GDPR eve! Don't forget to put out milk, cookies, and a signed consent form for the EU Commissioner!.
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In Denmark, "helicopter parents" are called "curling parents", which I think is a) a better expression b) hilarious. http://t.co/x17slGfE3e.
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*Update!* Friday is my last day at Stripe. 2,026 days later and I’m exceedingly proud of what we’ve done—what a company, what a ride, what an opportunity! And yet still so much to do :) Thank you to the team and thank you, pjcbwdps! <3 4ever.
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OK yeah so hi, one more update—I’m coming *back* to.@stripe as “Head of Craft” on @lil_dill’s team to help drive our continued focus on craft, beauty, and quality. Looking forward to working with many for the 1st, and a bunch of the old crew for the 2nd (or 3rd!) time! 🙏📷🫷.
*Update!* Friday is my last day at Stripe. 2,026 days later and I’m exceedingly proud of what we’ve done—what a company, what a ride, what an opportunity! And yet still so much to do :) Thank you to the team and thank you, pjcbwdps! <3 4ever.
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Young Confluence
Your rap name is young + the reason you cried last.
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OK fine whatever, but you *cannot* left-align a centered logo stack like that.
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New job just dropped! So happy to join @joinhandshake as Chief Design Officer! Getting started on the right career is way too much of a dark art, and much too dependent on who you know and which school you went to —
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No biggie, just a new logo and new site — and I'm totally :cat_with_heart_eyes:. See for yourself —
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New & improved — unreasonably great work by a relentless team that goes the extra mile and then says "let's go a bit further". :pray-hotdog: → .@micaelaballew @krithix @tkhakbaz @bdc @thomasdegry @destroytoday @narrowd @tatsvc @billlabus @alex_norcliffe.
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Ah, yes, the Scandinavian design aesthetic, I would recognize that anywhere.
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So, once again, Stripe squeezed ten years into one, but made it seem like just one month passed. Here’s to many more!
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If you, like me, have thoughts, feelings, & opinions about career levels for (product) designers, please join Joel and a bunch of others on Monday! .
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It's 5pm in the Bay Area and they sounds of millions of people switching from Zoom to Google Docs echo through the valleys and villages.
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Extremely excited to start rolling out a refreshed brand design for @joinHandshake. Thanks to @LiAnneDias, @manualcreative, and everyone else involved for their unwavering, diligent work 🙏
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Not retired, just resting a bit! :) Thanks to the Design team folks at Stripe for the lovely book of memories, which my family laughed at and quote “didn’t understand”. (Unrealistic beard expectations illustration by @tyler_thompson). Miss you all!
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“Oh what a cool sound, what is that?” — the sweet, sweet innocence of my kid hearing the Slack notification sound fot the first time.
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I guess maybe 2016 doesn't totally suck?
Tilly's first couple of minutes wearing a bionic hand; choosing when to close the fingers and how fast.—@openbionics
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Two things to convince you to immediately come and work at Stripe. 1) We *actually* erase the whiteboard when the meeting ends. 2) We have these trays by the printers:
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I truly don’t know where it came from, but Dad Level III unlocked this morning when I heard myself say “It doesn’t cost anything to be nice, you know”.
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Can confirm! All your old recurring meetings and your Google docs are still there waiting for you.
If you enjoyed your former username@stripe.com and would like it back, we've kept it warm for you!.
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While I'm of course no Afghanistan expert, I did spend some time there almost 20 years ago. Not sure it makes sense to call the entire population of a country kind and beautiful, but that was my feeling then and memory today. They have always deserved better.
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As I come home from work, the middle kid has taken to asking me "How many meetings did you have today?". Listen, buddy….
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Nothing "micro" about this :) Congrats, folks! Everyone else, please come work here!.
I had the pleasure to design the new @stripe jobs micro site alongside some amazing peeps: @thomasdegry @narrowd @schlakman @HillaryBenzell and many many more!
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Oh, would you look at that! Had to double check the dates, though, as I could have sworn it’d been either 3 months or 30 years.
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If you’re looking for ideas on what to do doing lockdown, my wife is currently running 100 miles … by running up and down Mt Tam 16 times!? 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰⛰.
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In the true spirit of an Estonian, Danish, and Irish Thanksgiving, we're making 24 pounds of potatoes for 17 people.
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This thing lives in my neighborhood and would you look at it.
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The sheer disrespect of my children calling them “Josh trees”.
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I’m a guest in this country but I still think of it as home and I can still say that it’s broken. This won’t fix it, but hopefully we can together.
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You know how the first time you walk from the elevator to your hotel room, and then when you walk back it's like 1/3rd the distance? Still thinking about that.
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@katienotopoulos The most concerning thing about stuff like this is how disappointing it is that kids let themselves be influenced by this kind of dullard.
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It's a day that ends in "y", so we launched a thing — Fans of funds flows and design alike, this is for you.
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God bless America. *fighter jet formation flies over tweet*.
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Next week will be my last at @joinhandshake. I’m so proud of and happy about all the progress of the last 3 years—most importantly building the amazing design team! Thank you 🙏 to them, my xfn buddies, and ofc to @GarrettLord, @benmchristensen, and @scottringwelski! 🫡
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I'm at a wedding and I don't know what the hashtag is and I'm too embarrassed to ask.
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+1 — a well-done logo wall is an all-too-rarely seen art.
shoutout to the designer who had to eyeball the comparative proportions of all these logos #AppleEvent
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Looking forward, butterflies in my stomach (hopefully not literally, but you never know with those guys).
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Thank you, Rdio and people at Rdio — we fought the good fight much longer than anyone ever predicted and I'm proud of you and us.#rdiostrong.
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Speaking of nice things, we're looking for experienced Design Managers at Stripe —come work with the wonderful people who make what it is (& me). I promise it'll be hard, fun, & rewarding —
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I'll give you "Jif" for Gif, if you give me "Gira" for Jira.
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Adding a fourth item to the list of hard problems in computer science: Google Groups permissions. (The other three being naming, cache invalidation, and external monitors).
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Caught myself pressing the right arrow to fast-forward in a Zoom meeting.
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Very interesting! The fine folks at Handshake found that students of color prefer virtual career events — less stress, fewer snap judgements →
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Thanks to the vaccine, I get a government-mandated 15 mins for quiet contemplation in the middle of a Safeway.
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"Join our webinar" is ancient Greek for "Remember to unsubscribe and delete your account.".
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Sorry to burst the bubble, but compared to what we *need* to do, Stripe has done very little yet. And even more excitingly, who knows exactly *what* to do or *how* to do it? I have more hard work and responsibility than most people would want —
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Early presidential election slogan prediction: “Hindsight is 2020”.
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Hey friends at @StravaSupport — could we not use the words "may have died" in your Safety Contact view? Ty!
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"Fintech"?
White House sources say Trump is cursing up a storm - ranting and raving. Yelling at staffers & using the "F" word. He's losing it tonight.
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It seemed the height of laissez-faire cool when I some years ago saw a bunch of L.A. people go into a Palm Springs pool in *with* credit cards in their pockets (to use at the pool bar). It’s taken me since then to work up the courage to try it. New cards take 7–10 days to arrive.
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What I'm doing on a Friday night? Oh nothing, just hosting a 1 hour conference call on my iPhone for RiteAid and Anthem Blue Cross to agree that I have health insurance.
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For me to make Sesame Chicken, a big piece of parmesan cheese, and to stay up as long as he wants to — birthday wishes of an 11yo-to-be.
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California life — “Kids, put on a jacket, it’ll be cold in Costco.”.
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Google Calendar has this new notification bug/feature that simulates what my days *feel* like.
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Made some updates to So, so (so!) impressed with Figma and the libraries of Icons8 made quick work of it (and OK, good old Illustrator for some vector work — nothing else makes sense to me).
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