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Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Beautiful website. I also think this is the same guy who had to ask Musk if he was fired because HR couldn't confirm it. Maybe it was a mistake to let him ago, he seems to be pretty talented actually.

Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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> Maybe it was a mistake I suspect many mistakes have been made. This isn't even anywhere near the Top Ten.

The way Elon is handling it on Twitter is uniquely bad, and could be opening Twitter up to massive discrimination liability. I would say this does actually make a top ten list.

That's a good point.

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> But as I told HR (I'm assuming that's the confidential health information you are sharing) I can't work as a hands on designer for the reasons outlined above.

> Or even small companies, like Twitter today.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

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I believe him when he says he was asking for work and nobody gave him anything to do. I've had that happen to me many times at the "best" tech companies. Yes not having work to give people is a valid reason to lay someone off but not to publicly humiliate them and be cruel.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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I wish I had the skills to create beautiful/art like website. is there anywhere to get started learning?

ctrlpaint.com is a great resource. The tutorials are comprehensive and free.

I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.

Unfortunately there’s no hacks to learn draining overnight. Deliberate practice is the only way. Doodling in the margins of your notes during boring meetings is a great way to get reps in.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

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I think you're describing all managerial positions if you think he was coasting.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

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The guy seems incredibly driven, doing all sorts of stuff to improve access for people with disabilities, for instance. I'd assume Twitter was dysfunctional before this guy was.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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I wish I had the skills to create beautiful/art like website. is there anywhere to get started learning?

It's years of skill and many different learned things to arrive on a curated outcome like this personal site, which is the point. Don't try to get there today, but maybe make your own site that's the best you can build with what you know.

And honestly, if you do want to jump into this, there's nothing better than just to start. Use something like codepen and start playing with CSS & CSS animations. Try replicating some of the text animations (there'll be lots of examples on the internet) and go from there. After CSS animations (which will get you 80% of the way), would be helpful to explore composition & color theory (from a design perspective, studying and replicating examples is good to pick up skill and find your "design voice"). From there, the sky's the limit.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Beautiful website. I also think this is the same guy who had to ask Musk if he was fired because HR couldn't confirm it. Maybe it was a mistake to let him ago, he seems to be pretty talented actually.

It’s one thing to decide that someone’s role is no longer necessary at a company. It’s business, things change, no role is guaranteed to exist forever.

But firing someone without communication and with HR unable to confirm it is just low. Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent.

This could have been a completely different exchange if the response was a simple “Sorry for the confusion, I’ll look into it and have HR get back to you ASAP.”

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

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Really?? It sounds like he was managing teams rather than being an IC..

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

It’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(

I wonder if that will be the new badge of honor
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