Sarah Schumacher

@smschumacher.com

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💥Multi-passionate design/tech nerd (she/her) --- 🖥️ Website design/dev/hosting [tinythunder.com] 🎨✍🏻 Artist + writer [smschumacher.com] 🎙️ Podcast cohost [founderproblems.com] --- ☕️📚🐈‍⬛ Local coffee, books/manga

Elephant labeled "The entire world's IT infrastructure" stands on a beach ball labeled "Open source software" supported by ants labeled "Unpaid open source devs.
An xkcd cartoon shows a complex stack labeled "All modern digital infrastructure" resting on a small piece labeled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.
Image of a dark gray granite countertop, with a glass and metal Aeropress coffeemaker brewing atop a white Miir camp cup.
Screenshot of the settings window of Twitter saying "Your account is deactivated."
A graphic promoting Founder Problems podcast Episdoe 7: Rented vs. Owned Platforms: In this episode we discuss rented versus owned digital Internet platforms, because social media accounts are great until they pull the rug out from under you. A cute little dumpster fire is in the corner, his single tear betraying the overwhelm behind the holding-it-together smile, because business is hard and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
"Social psychologists call this inability to rest "idleness aversion," which makes it sound like just another minor behavioral foible; but in his famous theory of the "Protestant work ethic," the German sociologist Max Weber argued that it was one of the core ingredients of the modern soul. It first emerged, according to Weber's account, among Calvinist Christians in northern Europe, who believed in the doctrine of predestination that every human, since before they were born, had been preselected to be a member of the elect, and therefore entitled to spend eternity in heaven with God after death, or else as one of the damned, and thus guaranteed to spend it in hell. Early capitalism got much of its energy, Weber argued, from Calvinist merchants and tradesmen who felt that relentless hard work was one of the best ways to prove to others, but also to themselves-that they belonged to the former category rather than the latter. Their commitment to frugal living supplied the other half of Weber's theory of capitalism: when people spend their days generating vast amounts of wealth through hard work but also feel obliged not to fritter it away on luxuries, the inevitable result is large accumulations of capital." (Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks)
Meme of the PTSD war dog with giant terrified eyeballs. Fading into the background are helicopters preparing an assault, soldiers marching into the jungle, steeling themselves for the inevitable horrors and memory of all the horrors that came before. The caption reads: "Logging into an unmaintained WordPress website."
A graphic promoting Founder Problems podcast Episode 3: When to Quit: Feast or Famine Cycles, Slow Intuition, and Listening to the Market. In this episode, we discuss our experiences with the mental gymnastics behind tough decisions. How do you know when to push through and when to throw in the towel?. A cute little dumpster fire is in the corner, his single tear betraying the overwhelm behind the holding-it-together smile, because business is hard and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
A graphic promoting Founder Problems podcast Episode 2: Three Approaches to Annual Planning: Tarot Cards, B.L.U.F.F., and the Pen-to-Spreadsheet Pipeline. Description: In this episode, Lee Zuvanich, Zach Oshinbanjo, and Sarah Schumacher tackle the once in a year task of planning the next one. From Pinterest-level vision boards to X-men and mortar inspired operational plans, we cover three wildly different planning styles that all end up being mostly the same (hint: start with values). Yes, the ubiquitous rocks and pebble illustration is mentioned, but only once. A cute little dumpster fire is in the corner, his single tear betraying the overwhelm behind the holding-it-together smile, because business is hard and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
Graphic announcing the release of Founder Problems podcast episode 1: Why, where Zach Oshinbanjo, Lee Zuvanich, and Sarah Schumacher talk about their personal founder journeys and why they decided to start this podcast. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or founderproblems.com
Picture of the box for LEGO Star Wars Dark Falcon set (from Rebuild the Galaxy series - mixed up universe storyline).
Picture of Bone comic book cover with a frightened Fone Bone and Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone badly playing an instrument.
A side by side image showing the letters F and P in a brush front on a zoomed-in screenshot of part of a typographic style logo. On the left, before CC update and the correct letter sizing. On the right, after CC update and the letters are wildly different sizes and overlapping incorrectly.
A memeified clip from Southpark: a clueless smiling gnome stands in front of a large whiteboard sign that reads Phase 1: Buy Twitter. Phase 2: question mark. Phase 3: Profit.
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Photo of orange cat wearing a backpack in front of neon city lights, with word "Stray" in white graffiti across the top.
A photo titled Information Overload that shows a quote attributed to Barnaby Rich in the year 1600 (quoted in The Age of Reason Begins, 1961). It says “One of the great diseases of this age is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought into the world." The word “books” has been scratched out and replaced with the word “tweets.”
Screenshot of a scam email from someone soliciting marketing services for "Bose"