Dan Liu
@danliu
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Designer. Founder & CEO of @lumahq. I love the better @danqing.
Dynamic Island, HI
Joined April 2012
Design is hard. But I’ve come to realize that laying out texts properly is 80% of what makes something look clean, and is the easiest thing you can do to make your design much nicer and more usable. Here are 10 practical tips for improving your text layout.
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This is really not about work life balance. It’s about having the wrong goal. One should maximize the output of their work (and be judged for it), not how much effort is put in. Imagine an AI model thinking for 36 straight hours then say there are 5 rs in strawberry.
Work life balance is great, in-fact we recommend it to all our competitors. Don’t be angry with this post. You’re free to disagree & let us cook :)
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Duolingo is a game app disguised as a learning app. I believe it’s really a net negative for the world. Imagine the alternative world in which people who want to learn and are willing to spend the time actually do.
My father has a 1200+ day Spanish streak on Duolingo. We went on holiday to Spain recently and he could hardly string two sentences together. What the fuck is the point of that app?
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since everyone is talking about twitter's account location feature... did you know xiaohongshu (and most chinese social media) shows location for every single post and comment
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I don’t hate Aravind / Perplexity but I also think perplexity doesn’t have a bright future. From a product perspective, it’s just too similar to Google. I think it’s actually easier for people to adopt something if it works more differently from existing products. Even if
I really dont get the hate against Aravind and Perplexity. Man is 3-6 months ahead of the big labs in almost every trend and has a big user base. Comes up with cool things every couple months. I think the big labs could learn a ton from him actually, he has great product sense.
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a great trend in startups is the elimination of the standalone PM role. for a product to be great, whoever designing / building it must understand why it should exist and how it should work, i.e. being its PM. we also don't have PMs @lumahq and I can't imagine that to change.
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Honestly I think the way for any ai video social media (sora, meta, etc) to work is straightforward: Make sure there’s cat in the video. Put it in the system prompt. Let the cat do whatever. Who’s making it??
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To put this into perspective cursor’s valuation is 50% higher than the market cap of figma
Looks like it's going to be a very busy day. Before we get started, Cursor has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation. This would be over ten times the value they had at the start of the year.
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i feel like 90% of the time jensen appeared in my feed he's eating at some restaurant in asia. he should become a food blogger.
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patiently waiting for femto banana to drop... how small can the banana go?
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the one difference between the ai buildout and the fiber buildout is that the fiber investment feels much more durable. 5-year old GPUs are probably not that useful for the latest models, but any additional cable results in more bandwidth.
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2025 is when a company that's 49% owned by msft releases a chromium-based browser that only works on mac
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it's actually pretty insane that basically all desktop apps in the last decade are built on top of chromium. makes one wonder what would happen if google can make chromebooks good...
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other than its technical prowess, the one thing about google that always impresses me is its willingness to do things that don't scale, at scale. e.g. street view, it's insane how wide and up-to-date the coverage is. i wish more big tech can be like this.
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My favorite interview question for designers has two parts: 1. Name a product that you think is very well designed. 2. Tell me 10 things you can improve about it. You are not a great designer without good taste. You are also not a great designer if you don’t see the world as
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