Happy fintech valuation judgement day, for those who celebrate. Best of luck to the Chime team. Pretty sure this is the first IPO of a consumer neobank, built on another bank’s charter (all other players were already public when launching)

20 years ago today. more prescient than ever.

everything is not computer right now

Figma is (seemingly) releasing a liquid glass tool already. Have to imagine they had some sort of advanced notice from Apple? Regardless, it’s super impressive to see them ship this so quickly

you just know TBPN is gonna be lit today

miami is about to be so back

junior and senior+

surely the people who would benefit the most from free buses would vote for the guy? right? right??

the problem with apple acquiring perplexity is that it’s actually doubling down on apple’s poor AI decisions they completely abandoned (never entered?) the foundational model race, and instead turned their focus to a (poorly executed) product & integration built on top of openai

celebrated our one year wedding anniversary this weekend being married is f*cking awesome find someone you love and put a ring on it

only 3 things are certain in life: 1. death 2. taxes 3. extremely slick interfaces built by Jordan Singer and team let’s go Mainframe!

but for real, Nikita Bier took me to onboarding school

🇺🇸 happy birthday to the greatest country in the world may your freedom ring and your ambitions scale

startups were having a hard time hiring staff/principal designers so they lowered the bar for what staff/principal means and its making the already wobbly designer market even stranger

midwest summer

it’s crazy that at least 30% of the united states GDP comes from work done on a lenovo thinkpad in a random midwest delta lounge

Well, I guess now’s as good a time as any for some personal news... After a wild chapter at X, I’ve officially wrapped up my time there. I'm extremely proud of the work we did, and you’ll be seeing more of it soon. More to come on what’s next...

long live the builders

potential outcomes as an early stage startup employee (ranked): 1. ipo 2. big acquisition 3. acquihire 4. late stage zombie 5. failure … 108. ceo/c-suite abandons you for big tech and you get zero upside from the deal

one of the strongest businesses I have seen in my career is looking for a head of design > AI / intelligence space > extremely strong traction already > incredible team, design is the final piece > grinding in person, in sf rare opportunity with a massive impact from day 1.