Mills is kind of a legend of the London product and agency scene and co-founder and cultural hub of ustwo, the company behind (amongst others) the multi-award-winning game Monument Valley.
Ustwo are now huge, with offices in several countries around the world and hundreds of employees, but 15 years ago Mills and Sinx, (the other one in us'two') didn't know what the hell they were doing.
Mills is now on his own journey of self discovery. We talk about what it means to have a good career, to build a business you want to work for, to find happiness and to recognise the need for change in order to get there.
Apologies for some wobbly sound, sirens and bumps - I wanted to get this pod out there in true JFDI (Just Fucking Do It, the name of Mills's pod) style.
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Mills:
https://twitter.com/millsustwo
https://soundcloud.com/thejfdicast
https://www.ustwo.com/
Jonny:
https://twitter.com/jonnyburch
http://progressionapp.com
#29 Jackie Bavaro (Asana, Google) on having impact as a Product Manager
#28 Steve Bianchi (Beamery, Unilever) on the rise of the people-focused COO and a capability-based future
#27 Lucas Coelho (Roam Digital) on building an academy, leadership lessons and how to run a happy team
#26 Brian Lovin (Github, Spectrum, Design Details) on the rise of the senior IC
#25 Sarah Clatterbuck (Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google) on frameworks for startups vs large orgs and avoiding anti-patterns
#24: Jessie Hayes (Whereby, Box) on treating people like a product and keeping frameworks light
#23: Gonçalo Silva (CTO, Doist) on building progression frameworks for a distributed team
#22: Inside Progression Ep2 — Jonny and Neil catch-up
Progression anti-racism statement
#21 Cap Watkins (Primary, Buzzfeed) on helping new managers and the problem with taking other people's career ladders
#20: Irene Au (Khosla Ventures, Google) on scaling design teams and practices, scaling yourself and finding your why
#19: Ryan Carson (CEO, Treehouse) on a winding journey to training 100,000 new software engineers
#18 Anne-Laure Le Cunff on mindfulness, burnout, writing every day and building a business
#17 Kara DeFrias on changing careers, curing cancer and being a sponsor
#16 Dave Malouf on Design Ops and the power of speaking on stage
#15: Inside Progression with Jonny and Neil – teamwork, a new feature and biscuit reviews
#14: Todd Zaki Warfel (Leadership coach, Design Career Index report) on frameworks and job satisfaction
#13: Sana Rao (Twitter, Deliveroo) on life changes, sponsorship and scaling design teams through change
#12: Peter Merholz (Adaptive Path, Org Design for Design Orgs) on org design and ethics
#11: Braden Kowitz (Google Ventures, Range) on co-creating the Design Sprint, becoming a founder and his design journey
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