Kevin

I was laid off by Xbox back in July and decided to take the rest of the summer off to spend with my nearly 4 year old daughter - which was an amazing decision. We have plenty of financial cushion but I want to get back to solving fun problems, especially with AI. However, I did think with my background of 16 years in games (Xbox where I designed, built, and shipped their nascent mobile App Store and at Google where my strategy consultations for the biggest mobile games caused a directly attributable $500M incremental revenue uplift over two years) along with the ice breaker of creating one of the most famous viral videos of all time (Peanut Butter Jelly Time) I’d be having a slightly easier time. The market feels bad. Really, really bad. Especially if you’re not in SF/New York and if you’re not under 35. I send out a few well crafted resumes per day for roles I’m qualified for and it’s just crickets. I imagine it’s a combination of everyone being able to use AI to craft perfect resumes and actual qualified candidates are just getting lost in the noise but that doesn’t bode well for the future where the job losses in tech will probably keep growing. Curious if others are starting to see this. I’m more of a generalist/pm/partnerships so maybe it’s easier for pure tech roles. I’ve even built a bunch of AI tools for fun that can visually tag a games mechanics, art style, and genre and then match them with the most relevant streamers. If anyone is looking for someone like me I will send you some of my mountains of PBJT swag: linkedin.com/in/kevinpatrick…

Chappell Roan’s statue honoring her security team.

Grabbed an aurora picture from my balcony in the 15 minutes they were visible in the PNW.

I’ve never really shown it off before but my wedding band is made out of an authentic piece of the HMS Victory. They are selling some of the old wood off as they refurbish it. Amazing to think this thing on my finger was at Trafalgar.

Ozzy dying the week after his final concert is reminiscent of Charles Schultz dying right after Snoopy ended.

The difference in quality between Bluey and literally any other recently produced children’s media is unbelievable. Why are most kids shows so bad? The terrier side characters who actually call out historical battle formations is one of a thousand little attention to details that just make it so charming.

One thing that has disappeared that it seems like few people have noticed: the extremely well researched historical fiction novel. Books where the authors spent years - or decades - researching the history. Last one I can remember is Wolf Hall.

Really hoping I can keep this Father’s Day tradition going until her 18th birthday.

Very strange to see something I made while absolutely hammered in college over 20 years ago is still culturally relevant today. I regret nothing.

I’m not sure who doesn’t already know this, but The Wire has aged amazingly well. Fascinating to be reminded of how police worked right before everyone had a cellphone.

I’m trying to decide if Yellowstone was always bad and Kevin Costner was just good enough to make it watchable.

Asked my hotel in Edinburgh if they had any rooms with a good view. They said they had a tiny room on the top floor which I took and think I made the right choice.

Time to establish a new Father’s Day tradition in this household.

Just now taken from Snoqualmie Pass outside of Seattle

It’s wild to me we can buy, for under $1000, a flying camera that can fly for 20+ minutes and take pictures of this quality, then automatically fly back home and land itself.

Took my one week old Rivian R1S off-roading and was blown away by how capable it was, even on the road tires.

This site is worth $8 solely because I was able to get MC Hammer to verify a story my wife has been telling me for 25 years.

Being a longtime Twitter / X lurker that has never built any sort of following, it sucks on the rare occasions I feel I have something interesting to say because it feels like I’m screaming into the void and the only echos back are “TITS IN BIO”