random patch of wildflower on my way to the gym yesterday. california stays undefeated!

This is by far the weirdest crypto market i've been through. majors absolutely sending, yet startups dying all around me. my read of what's happening 1. Majors rally don't affect startup, only exchanges 2. No alts rally means no new tokens and no net new users 3. Memecoins as the dominant traded asset class for retail... Show more

Excited to unveil what we’ve been cooking with the @worldcoin foundation over the last months: It’s a mini app, for real human voting in the World community. But it’s also so much more

my career path 1) cashier at bakery 2) mechanic at bike shop 3) startup 1 (didn't work) 4) designer at agency 5) designer at coinbase 6) startup 2: agora.xyz

I was skeptical about the whole "AI will mean everyone gets personal apps" narrative until @charliecf and I each built our own gym tracker apps in a few hours last weekend. I didn't even bother looking for the best app. Just vibe coded the one I wanted cause the dev time was negligible

All social ills in this country can be traced back to the American Caste system: Top: Prop 13 home owners paying two bananas worth of prop tax / year Mid: Home owners who locked in 3% 30 years fixed mortgage Low: Renters Untouchables: 7% post ZIRP mortgage holders

If you're interested in what the new reg changes mean for token launches, we're doing a little talk tomorrow with friends from @liquifi & Cooley! Join us to get the TL;DR of the 236 page CLARITY act :)

Can someone ELI5 why Jack is wrong? I love stablecoins, but am probably more aligned with Jack than its boosters right now. Feels like the excitement around stables today smells a lot like emperor has no clothes

If you don’t like aspic you simply don’t know it’s already everywhere in stuff you like!

my most controversial niche food opinion is that xiao long baos and pâte en croute are basically the same food: 1. a layer of dough wrapped around 2. ground meat 3. with aspic

For startups, i've basically stopped believing in the traditional design interview loop. My dream design interview loop: 1. 30m portfolio review 2. Onsite to produce eng-ready mock in a tiny area Everything else is just noise. Bonus: pick anything in the app, ship 1 PR to make it nicer.

i wish i could block Facebreaker notifications T_T it's getting quite spammy. i get the viral growth hustle, but need some way on the receiving user end to mute these

Reflecting on my time at Coinbase as a designer: The most visible thing I did was redesigning app homepage + shipping a new redesigned mobile app. The most valuable thing I did was designing a settings screen for withdrawal limits & new fraud models. Many lessons from this.