Nick Jones
@narrowd
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Making spinning things for the web. Websites @stripe and bringing books to life @stripepress
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Joined August 2010
Hello, I'm Nick, I am a freelancer. This is my new portfolio: https://t.co/Z8ZZXQeQ0D please tell your friends
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After 15 years working in tech, I have come to view company walls as a semi-permeable membrane for talent. People work together at multiple companies over the course of their careers. We refer our favorite teammates to each other. We get feedback on new work from old colleagues.
I spent the last 60 days working at Cursor. It's been one of the most thrilling phases of my professional life. There's a lot of mystique around the company. Over the last two months, some things matched my expectations; many did not. I wrote an essay for @joincolossus
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This is such a great idea
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It’s stupid that books have “A” cover
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This designer I make websites with also art directs book covers!?
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cutting room floor
another new book from stripe press: the scaling era by @dwarkesh_sp & @g_leech_ art direction: @devinjacoviello cover design: pablo delcan interiors: kevin wong producer: @trv_mcl biggest dog: @narrowd publishing: @_TamaraWinter @rebeccahiscott @s8mb & @Jennifer_Yun
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Someday I’d like a little exhibit of discarded covers. Maybe at a future pop-up! We’re going back to sharing more of our work in progress. Pablo, @devinjacoviello, @narrowd, @trv_mcl, Kevin, and Jess are truly second to none. ❣️
Evolution of the Scaling Era cover: “It’s hard to find unique ways of visualizing AI without defaulting to the obvious,” says @pablodelcan. “In our design process, we experimented with unexpected metaphors—flowers growing out of neural networks, abstract mathematical puzzles
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What is intelligence? What will it take to create AGI? What happens once we succeed? The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @g_leech_ explores the questions animating those at the frontier of AI research. It’s out today: https://t.co/6GzEZyaggR
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What should we call the era after the Scaling Era?
another new book from stripe press: the scaling era by @dwarkesh_sp & @g_leech_ art direction: @devinjacoviello cover design: pablo delcan interiors: kevin wong producer: @trv_mcl biggest dog: @narrowd publishing: @_TamaraWinter @rebeccahiscott @s8mb & @Jennifer_Yun
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Devin and I lust launched a blockchain website
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Highly recommend checking out debug mode on https://t.co/0TdqYch6k5 Masterminded by @devinjacoviello and @narrowd
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new book from stripe press: origins of efficency by brian potter art direction: @devinjacoviello cover design: pablo delcan interiors: kevin wong & @geoffhalber producer: @trv_mcl big dog: @narrowd publishing: @_TamaraWinter @rebeccahiscott @s8mb & @Jennifer_Yun
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iOS 26 turns a page on Apple’s legacy frameworks UIKit + SceneKit. SceneKit is now soft deprecated. RealityKit is intended to take its place but has a distance to catch up to SceneKit which was already far behind today's popular 3D/game engines. If Apple wants developers to take
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1959 hardware running early 1960s generative art this afternoon. Minskytron on the PDP-1
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I'm heads down writing my book from ambitious early career operators this week. if you are one such ambitious early career operator, what would you like me to write about?
I'm writing a book for early career operators. More bright ambitious people should experience the magic of being successful at work. If you're in the first 5 years of your career, not a manager, and want to help shape the book / get your burning worklife questions answered,
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A year in the making, my interaction design manual is available today. With 20 chapters and 20 downloadable React components on an interactive custom platform, it includes everything I know about not just interactions, but design. Registration is open for 2 weeks.
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