285: Deadly American Idol

This week, we discuss spoken accents, answer a listener question about salary negotiations, and Marshall dives deep into the design of Apex Legends. And as always, we share a couple cool things, like a hip hop musical and a way to bring joy back to your Twitter timeline.

• Jak McCormack wants us to attempt English accents. No thank you, Jak 😜
  • "That's bait"

• Anton Osipov shared a helpful visual for using a unit-based vertical baseline.
• Zain Khoja shared studentswho.design, a podcast bridging the gap between students and the design industry - by students, for students.

• An anonymous listener asks: "I’m about to change jobs and soon I’ll have initial call with someone from one of the companies I could potentially work for. I don’t want to invest too much of my time in multiple calls and meetings with them before being sure the offer meets my expectations, especially in terms of salary. But I also don’t want to be considered as one of those guys who care only about money. So my question is: what’s the right moment to talk about this? Should that be something to talk about during the very first call? Or maybe later? For context: it was the company who reached out to me whether I’d be interested in the role."
  • HBR wrote about what people want from their jobs.

• Marshall goes deep into the world of Apex Legends.
  • Charlie Deets explains the magic of communication in Apex Legends
  • Battle Royale, based on the novel by Koushun Takami, is a film from 2000 in which the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act
  • PUBG, Fortnite, and Call of Duty: Blackout are popular games in the battle royale genre
  • Respawn Entertainment is the company behind Apex Legends, who are well known for the Titanfall series
  • Watch Apex Legends to get a better feel for how the game works

• Marshall shared Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording), an album from the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Brian shared Tokimeki Unfollow by Julius Tarng, a tool to help you bring joy back to your Twitter timeline, based on Marie Kondo's KonMari method

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