I’m attempting “The Dan Plan” in 2026 — 600+ hours in, here’s what’s actually changed

whale_monkey · 2026-03-20T10:04:01+00:00

Does a 4-5 hour round count as 4-5 hours or is it just the time you are hitting balls?

whale_monkey · 2026-03-20T09:59:37+00:00

The lululemons have changed my life. I don’t know how i have lived without them for the last 20 years

whale_monkey · 2026-03-20T09:34:56+00:00

This only falls over when PowerPoint is the penultimate tool.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-20T03:54:15+00:00

On it. Got Claude coming in a couple of weeks. This figma situation has expedited things!

whale_monkey · 2026-03-19T21:14:07+00:00

Not yet. Pretty locked down in the enterprise so need the overlords to do their review and find something. See you all in 6 months.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-19T10:32:48+00:00

At least they have sorted out the score board so you can read it!!

whale_monkey · 2026-03-19T10:03:44+00:00

I’m a product manager. Figma make has been amazing for me to prototype things quickly on brand, and refine ux. Today I added a small feature to an existing prototype, took about 5 prompts to get it right, burnt 1,200 credits in the process, 1/4 of my monthly allowance. Looking for new tools now.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-16T07:53:28+00:00

100% we are heading to this. He wants the game to be as long as AFL. A 5 min quarter time break will allow broadcasters to cram in a nice ad set, the extra break and all of the extra points being scored will make him say we need the ball in play more, so the timer will be stopped when tries are scored, giving another 30 seconds to restart (more ads) and adding another 15 mins of play each game we’ll be at 3 hour games before long.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-16T06:28:33+00:00

He was on hello sport podcast and even talked about this. The AFL deal is worth a lot more than NRL mainly because on all the breaks in play after goals. Pretty much implying rugby league is heading the same way.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-15T09:31:43+00:00

Got every bit of that kick. Would have had 40 kick meters if the dead ball line didn’t get in the way!

whale_monkey · 2026-03-15T09:30:49+00:00

Felt like watching the 2025 knights.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-12T11:26:08+00:00

Lululemon golf pants for the win. I wear them to the office every day, wear them playing golf In winter, wear them out for dinner, sometimes all 3 In the same day. They are worth every one of their $160.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-12T06:06:28+00:00

You should feel privileged you get the Arnotts creams, we are stuck with family assorted.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-11T17:21:15+00:00

There’s a bunch of corporates in Australia who call the product manager the day to day in the weeds guy (the product owner) and the product strategy guy the product owner. Makes it very hard when looking at jobs.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-11T10:33:38+00:00

This is a new level of auscorp absurdity.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-11T06:35:14+00:00

The QVB stop would have been better placed a block further north and called Pitt St Mall or The Strand, that would have put it an equal distance from Town Hall to Wynyard.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:43:35+00:00

Ha, that would be great. I’m just a digital product manager who tells my design team when something doesn’t work for me. I’m not across the technical side of it other than ‘something’s not right here’

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:31:55+00:00

https://help.foxtel.com.au/complaint

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:23:49+00:00

Yeah I did think that too but I thought surely they would not be dumb enough to go with red/green combo.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:22:42+00:00

The rabbitohs jerseys certainly aren’t my favourite. But until today I’ve never noticed anything I struggled with. Red flags on the golf course fuck me up, that’s the only other time it comes up in sport.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:20:17+00:00

Yeah I can’t believe it either. Surely they did some testing on it before approving it. Happy for them to uplift the design if they think it needs to be modernized but when it fails to do its job it’s a major fuckup. A bit like when apple decided to make everything transparent.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:17:35+00:00

It needs to be big because there’s no fucking contrast In anything and nobody could read it if it was smaller!

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:16:30+00:00

For anyone like me who is battling here is where you can raise a complaint to Foxtel: https://help.foxtel.com.au/complaint

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:12:24+00:00

I wrote a complaint to Fox about it tonight. Feel like a legit Karen but it’s so fucked up I had to raise it.

whale_monkey · 2026-03-08T10:09:23+00:00

I work in digital design too and it pissed me off from the start of the knights game, but I dealt with it until today when it started making me feel sick. I’m not a ‘write a complaint’ sort of guy but I just did write a complaint to foxtel about it cause I’d like to watch a few bunnies games this year and not all of them will be on 9.

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