Julian Lehr
@julianlehr
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Sentence designer. Currently @linear. Previously @stripe.
Berlin
Joined October 2009
New essay:.The case against conversational interfaces. • Natural language is a bottleneck.• The "pass me the butter" test.• AI as augmentation. ↓.
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Dia skills are a great example of "data compression for human-computer-interaction" btw. Don't make me use natural language, just give me a shortcut.
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Favorite @diabrowser skill so far:./recipe to get a list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions from cooking videos on YT.
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New podcast interview:.
When I think about the most durable skills for designers in an AI world. Storytelling is right at the top of the list. So for this week's episode @julianlehr gives us an inside look at how storytelling works at Linear 👇.
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Lexicon is the type of company you'd expect to get replaced by AI, but will actually rise in importance.
Pentium. Powerbook. Azure. Vercel. CapCut. BlackBerry. Sonos. Swiffer. Febreze. Impossible Burger. Subaru Outback. One company named them all. Over 40 years, @LexiconBranding has named nearly 4,000 brands and companies, employing 250+ linguists and pioneering the art and
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RT @linear: We raised a Series C at a $1.25B valuation, led by Accel. Now back to building and continuing our mission to inspire and accel….
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INSERT COIN:
i do think the future of work is like starcraft or age of empires. you have 200 microagents you’re directing to fix problems, gather information, reach out to people, design new systems, etc.
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We spent 20+ years debating the semantic web (web 3.0) and why it would never work, but somehow nobody seems to acknowledge the fact that LLMs are almost exactly what Tim Berners-Lee predicted? ("intelligent agents"). The idea of manually creating and maintaining semantically
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The Creation of Agent.Linear (2025), web fresco.
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RT @linear: Introducing Pulse. Stay up to date on what's happening across your product organization with a personalized feed of updates an….
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If you actually believe this, you should short Bitcoin.
If your brand is your moat, you won’t have a moat for much longer.
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Creators like @rsms don't get enough credit for their work. There should be a Nobel prize for "building useful things for the internet".
Inter is an internet treasure.
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Terrible news for the people on this platform who've been claiming that ChatGPT has no moat or lock-in.
we have greatly improved memory in chatgpt--it can now reference all your past conversations!. this is a surprisingly great feature imo, and it points at something we are excited about: ai systems that get to know you over your life, and become extremely useful and personalized.
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New job alert: Motion Storytelling at @linear . Join our in-house creative studio¹ and help us define Linear's visual language for product demos, launch videos, and other motion pieces. If this sounds interesting (or if you know someone who might be), please reach out with a.
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"AI is whatever doesn't work yet".
"Throughout history, people have been really reluctant to admit an AI is truly intelligent. I think there's going to be something similar with, 'Is the AI misaligned?'. Is the AI evil? Where there's this kind of distant idea of some evil AI. But then whenever something goes
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Joined one of my favorite writers to talk about my most recent essay, how I write, and more:.
After almost two years, @julianlehr is BACK to writing. He wrote a piece called The case against conversational interfaces, arguing that we're not going to be talking to our computers instead of using graphical user interfaces. GUIs work pretty well! . Instead, he thinks that
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This is exactly how note-taking / bookmarking on mobile should work: Make intake as frictionless as possible.
Capture, organize, and take action with Essential Space. Now in your hands with the Phone (3a) Series.
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Things of quality have no fear of time.
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