On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we've shared many adventures together, including recently collaborating on an actual conversation. I have so much admiration for Ben and the community-oriented way he operates, so I'm incredibly pleased we got to spend a whole conversation digging deep into it.
We cover so much ground in our conversation: building healthy communities, the critical importance of values, humanizing work, how hard things force you to reevaluate things, the sharing culture of the web, lessons from music, the cosmos, and a whole lot more.
If you enjoy conversations like this, I'd love it if you subscribed to Wake Up Excited! on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Links & Resources
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Get Together book
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Design Downtime podcast
Music
Ben's endeavors
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The Question - Ben's weekly open community design systems community
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Redwoods - Ben's new paid community for design systems practitioners
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Sparkbox - Ben's agency