Since 2016, I've had conversations with ~5000 design leaders at 200+ dinners and ~100 virtual events, and lots of slack threads. I also helped drive some industry benchmarking reports. I finally synthesized all the notes. A thread on lessons learned about design leadership. 🧵

Since Jan, I’ve been working on two products in my studio with 3 humans, and about 20 agents. Product 1: - mvp built, established product market fit, got our first 50 consumer customers Product 2: - prototype built, established partnership with enterprise client 🫨🏃💨

If I had to condense prompt engineering into seven simple steps, these would be it. Even implementing one of these building blocks will significantly improve your AI productivity. Here's the full breakdown👇 (Save it for future reference)

Flag post 62/144 goes to one of my oldest and true friends in this world, original studio pal, one of the best thought partners and someone you can always discuss the world with. @AdamFryPierce you keep us going 💪

I'm 43. If you're still in your 20s (or 30s), read this:

The practical art of effective marketing, of being truly seen, becomes even more critical than it already is...

The bottleneck shifts away from someone's ability to create, to someone's ability to be discovered. The challenge becomes more about attention. If we do see a magnitude more of A+ art in the world, we have a hyper-saturated landscape, and capturing users becomes the real game.

Those w/ genuinely valuable ideas will thrive, having significantly less friction in bringing tangible, user-facing products to market. It sure feels like we're on the cusp of a creative Cambrian explosion, particularly in music and film. But what does that mean for the market?

Consumer industries have long praised creative vision, while the brutal reality was the exorbitant cost of execution. It's looking like generative AI is The Great Leveler – making it easier to execute ideas. A quick thread on where I think we're going

FROM MAGA TO CHINA Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China. (1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of

Anytime you read an insane viewpoint on X that seems like a lot of people are agreeing with (for example, invading a sovereign country can be justified): Try and search their name on Linkedin or Instagram and see if they’re actually real people. You will be surprised how much

This is beautiful and I’m excited to see all of the good that comes out of this initiative ❤️🤩

Both are true

It’s almost like @intocryptoverse has been right all along

Yesterday: Ai will take destroy all tech jobs Today: Ai agents will reinforce all tech jobs, and increase output Reality: AI Agents are over and under-hyped. For any job destruction there will be an equal and larger amount of opportunity creation.

0/7 Waited 34 months for this moment! In March '22 I said that Bitcoin mining helps avoid expensive grid upgrades and decarbonize grids, a lot of non-Bitcoiners were skeptical Now, a Duke University Report confirms all this and more https://t.co/JsoUB5cBFz Report TL;DR 👇

Naval Ravikant: "I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do to the rest of us." On E215, @naval broke down his main AI fear: consolidated control enabled by regulatory capture. "If you really think you're going to create God, do you

If you aren’t experimenting with ai and crypto, you are missing out

Bitcoin will continue to prove to be one of the (if not the) best publicly available assets.

Good: “how can I help” Better: “here is how I can help” Best: “here’s how I can help, what it will do, and what I need to make it happen”

I love how every time right after the BOJ raises rates, people are immediately like “see nothing happened” And then 1-2 weeks later the markets dumps and everyone then assigns another narrative to it (this time it was tariffs)