413: Design Mentorship

<p>This week, we talk about design mentorship: what does an effective mentor do, how to find a mentor, how to avoid giving bad career advice, and more. In The Sidebar, we talk about obsessing over the pixels, wasting time on unimportant details, and how to tell the difference between polish and procrastination.</p><h3><strong>Golden Ratio Supporters:</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.plume.com"><strong>Plume</strong></a> empowers a billion smart devices in homes and small businesses through a suite of adaptive WiFi, AI security, and parental control. They're hiring product designers to build the future of smart home services. They're hiring product designers with 2-5 years of experience shipping products — learn more at <a href="https://designdetails.fm/plume">designdetails.fm/plume</a>. Oh, and they just raised a <a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/smart-home-saas-startup-plume-raises-270m-series-e-reaching-1-35b-valuation/">$270m series E</a>, so now's the time!</p><h3><strong>Latest VIP Patrons:</strong></h3><ul><li>Bilal</li><li>AJ Patshkowski</li><li>Ben C</li><li>First Name, pause, Last Name</li><li>Sam Hermes</li><li>Sid Kshetrapal</li><li>Nachiket Nanoty</li><li>Hoyin</li></ul><h3><strong>The Sidebar:</strong></h3><p>The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at <a href="https://patreon.com/designdetails">patreon.com/designdetails</a>.</p><h3><strong>Follow Up:</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Mannnnnnyx/status/1438544367732465690">Manny asks on Twitter</a>: <i>Curious, how much time do you guys usually spend on side projects a day/week? Whenever I work on side projects, I always feel guilty of not spending time with my other half, friends and pets because we haven’t seen each other for a whole day usually</i><ul><li>Probably...10-20 hours per week, on a good week? Huge caveat: we don’t have kids.</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/siddharthkp/stat