In a world where IDEO, Frog, and Pentagram are the coolest kids on the block, Missy Titus, a designer at StackMob in San Francisco, talks about the real benefits of working as an in-house designer over an design studio or agency. In her debut Stemming's essay, she explains that it's about so much more than just steady pay or regular hours. It's about making the best possible product for the company we care about.

Advice for designers.

Nobody's perfect, but in his second Stemmings essay Kyle Dreger encourages us all to start writing down our memories and journaling our imperfections - as those will be the stories we most enjoy rereading.

Disagreement is something that's known to human nature, but here, Shawn takes on the community's role in helping disagreement turn into discussion and not into a painful train wreck that's hard to turn away from.