Figma’s internal hackathon shipped products like Flides. They had engineers AND designers, pms, and sales in one room. I’ve attended 22 hackathons where 96% of the room is engineers. Hoping to see more collaborative shifts in the upcoming yr.

watching interstellar for the 5th time until 4am, no regrets

i spend a lot of time in calls and presentations. cant afford a good speech coach, so i looked for a sustainable ai solution. Yoodli is amazing. it does speech analysis, conversations, etc -- exactly what I was looking for, and 100% recommend

If anyone knows of defense + space tech meetups around the irvine / la area, let me know. trying to meet more like-minded people in the area

attending stanford defcon oct 8 - 9, would love to chat with anyone in the area that day :) stanforddefcon.org

realizing that building 1 meaningful connection is worth more than 50 hours of deep work + projects. reciprocal respect and admiration should be a prerequisite to any growth orientated relationship

drove 50 miles, weren’t allowed into product happy hour for #LATechWeek (underage) - went to fashion tech event instead. 🎀

theres a deeply flawed misconception i've realized about college majors. hyper-specialization is not the way to go. many would tell you to focus only on one major, deeming all other subjects as "unnecessary to get a job". there is much more to learning than getting a job.

2024 wrapped (why not): > first flight, first experience of snow > hackathon every weekend for 17 weeks, won 15 > won the largest ai hackathon in the world (+ met andrej karpathy!) > landed dream internship @palantirtech > met my amazing bf <3 > wrote about defense Contrary >

This is why I love anduril. The aesthetic goes hard

Met w Anduril Industries design last week, Saronic design team this morning, lots of negative talk online these days about the unpreparedness of US defense but let me tell you these companies are cooking and I am very bullish about the energy in the neo defense primes. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

the illusion of human exceptionalism crumbles fast when you see how much of our intelligence is just pattern recognition & predictive modeling. ai exposes how much of what we call “creativity” is remixing, how much “insight” is regurgitation, & how much “expertise” is just

thinking about this a lot lately. Palmer Luckey 🫡

I’m honored to be appointed by President Trump as the first Chief Design Officer of the United States of America.  (🧵) whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…