Evan Stewart
@heyecs
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Design engineer. Former founder (3x). Leading ambitious product & design teams. Prev: CEO @BasewellHQ + others. Sometimes writing checks. Always building.
Joined September 2021
Today, we're announcing a new $40B investment in Texas through 2027 to build Cloud & AI infrastructure and support thousands of new jobs. This includes new data centers in Armstrong and Haskell Counties and a major investment to strengthen energy resilience and abundance. We're
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This is quite literally one of the most incredible photos I’ve ever seen
Here's the full photo briefly featured in my recent video post showing @BlackGryph0n against the full solar chromosphere after his jump. Crazy how small he looks despite being nearly 50,000,000x closer! This ended up being my most popular print (vs the closeup) linked in my bio.
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Seeing plenty of design leaders hiring the cheapest talent they can find. I’ve found the opposite to be true. Hire superstars, pay them more money than you are comfortable with, and get out of their way.
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AI inputs are tricky to get right, even trickier to make magical. My take was in Basewell’s intelligence design system: https://t.co/nNkSHNL1Wh
the final boss of inputs. attachments, mentions, slash commands, autocomplete, action menus, sources, apps, tools, suggestions, states, modes, settings and more!
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CTA from Claire: ask your fancy expensive exec search firm to forward you the last 5 emails they sent on your behalf and see if you're impressed Bonus CTA: ask your PR agency to forward you the last 5 email pitches they sent and see if you’re impressed These are people getting
Recruiting and placing a tech executive is a 6 figure expense when you work with a firm. And yet I get email after email from recruiters at some of the top firms in tech that are clearly unpersonalized CRM drip campaigns with no awareness of: - the fact that i'm running my own
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Design-oriented companies will win. Highly recommend this watch.
That call where I thought @Tobi was firing me? We finally talked about it... Shopify’s internal podcast, Context, usually stays internal. But, this one hit differently—we unpacked @shop's origin story, *that* call, and how design defines every new era of technology. I loved the
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I spent $1.5M building our office after raising a seed round. My co-founder thought I was crazy. Here's what changed his mind... 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭: After our seed round, I looked at our team. Mostly immigrants. Working 6-day weeks. Building something incredibly hard. The
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feels like the era of hype is over. signups, views, free users, github stars.. all meaningless vanity metrics what matters now is revenue, margin, retention, and the sound of cash hitting your bank account the tide is changing. and we're about to see who’s been swimming naked
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Good design matters because it makes your user feel important, seen, and cared for. Design is a moat because of what it represents.
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In a world of slop, design is a moat. Have seen the same; great companies are prioritizing design across all functions.
I am not sure if you noticed, but great designers aren't even remotely threatened today. In fact, design has gotten such a level-up lately that it has become more vital than ever. The power of a good designer, both on brand and product side is so incredibly important that the
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📣 It's a landmark day for Swift, with three announcements that expand the ecosystem for developers everywhere. Here’s what’s new! 🧵
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Thoughtful, interactive experiences are the difference between software feeling personal and world-class, versus underdeveloped and utilitarian. Yet interactions must perform. Highly recommend this article from @mattgperry diving into all things motion. https://t.co/liS8C3g3hQ
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Learn what makes web animations fast, slow, and everything in between with our 2025 web animation performance tier list.
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“Optimizing” the modern home caused so much harm. We need spaces in our life that wander. A place that takes a little longer than normal to move through it. One built after thought, not after a spreadsheet.
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You see this on twitter all the time. Everyone is so damn mean. Lots of big political posters want to institute purity tests and laugh at the misfortune of people who might be better off if they agreed, instead of trying to help them towards differing opinions, etc.
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Really moved by the outpouring of support, emails, and text messages after our announcement yesterday. We knew @BasewellHQ was appreciated, but it's become clear how beloved it was by so many incredible teams.
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For early-stage startups, viral marketing is often a mistake. The same goes for heavy paid marketing. You might get a lot of views, but not the right ones. What usually happens is that you miss the true early adopters, the people who would actually love your still-in-progress
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