Abel 'Pablo' Abraham

I insert my name into common adjectives to create a more personalized English language experience. It is quite enjoyabel. he/him

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

Chair dump 🪑🧵

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I've now added Wispr, Notion, Granola, Fireflies, Zoom, Gemini, Cluely, Otter, Fathom, Read AI, and Wingrep to every meeting.

Each produces slightly different meeting notes.

I send all of them to Claude and ChatGPT, which push the summaries into Slackbot and Salesforce AI. Linear agents automatically create tickets while Notion agents create follow-ups in Notion. A Zapier workflow then uses 500k tokens to draft a follow up email in Superhuman.

None of it works and all of it is wrong but man, is it beautiful.

AGI is here.

[kepano @kepano]

@alvindrakes_ there doesn't have to be an end goal

you can just make useful things for people who want to use them, and live a happy life

[Saai Arora @SaaiArora]

Drake concerts in sf go crazy

[Steve Jobs Archive @SJArchive]

Introducing Letters to a Young Creator: honest perspectives on what it takes to make something great, written by people who have done it before.

Featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Bob Iger, Paola Antonelli, Jon M. Chu, Es Devlin, and many, many more.

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[dnap @dnapway]

Sam Altman reveals his favorite Naval quote:

"Naval Ravikant used to say this thing that I loved, which is, if you had a fast-forward button on a remote for your life, your life would be over."

"The boring parts, the bad parts, they're still much better than no experience. It’s all part of the interestingness and the kind of emotional depth and range. And I don’t know, I find it fairly easy to be grateful for the bad days."

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

i love that one of the great auteurs of our time co-produces all of his films with his wife. christopher nolan met emma thomas on the first day of university, they ran the film society together, and she has co-produced every single one of his films. he also frequently writes with his brother, jonathan nolan. far from the product of solitary genius, so much great art is the product of decades-long creative partnerships

what a wildly generative group of people to have found each other. the family dinner conversations must be incredible

[Julie Chabin @syswarren]

-=friday night rant=-

i'm tired of seeing the same thing happen over and over again:

a product is successful, well loved by users, growing insanely fast. then growth slows (not decreases, just slows) and it moves from plg to slg.

it starts forcing org / business needs onto the individual user experience because it needs to sign contracts and can't afford to split the product team across two motions.

the company thinks the needs are basically the same anyway, mostly because it only listens to org users now.

individual users feel the product changing. it gets more complicated. it adds features they don't need. the existing features are technically still there, but they're less accessible, so the product becomes less useful to them.

they complain, start looking for alternatives, and if nothing changes… they slowly leave.

and the company thinks:

"it's fine. we're signing contracts that generate much more $$$ than individual users ever did. and even if this person no longer uses our product at home, they use it at work."

so it keeps going.

the product slowly becomes fully focused on businesses, even though individuals can technically still sign up and use it through an increasingly shitty experience.

what the company doesn't notice at first is that it has also lost the individual users who used to champion the product inside the companies it's now targeting.

then, a few years later, the consequences catch up with the business.

multi-year contracts end
renewals get harder
growth slows again

shocked pikachu enters the scene

the company thinks it's a product problem, so it builds more features that xyz company said it needed to choose the product over competitors.

then it thinks it's a sales problem, so it hires more salespeople.

the product is perfect, after all: it has all the features.

but none of that helps with the ridiculous self imposed growth goals.

the product is now bloated, hard to maintain, and full of custom flows built for xyz and abc.

who, by the way, would now like another custom feature that is actually a full-blown product, otherwise they won't renew.

the product and engineering teams can't support all of it anymore.

so the company starts deciding what is "core"

and somehow, the features or products it built, or sometimes acquired, that were well loved by individual users in the first place are no longer considered core.

they get decommissioned.

the people who cared deeply about the product leave the company.

the product used to be well loved.

it's not anymore.

"but we have lots of weekly active users."

yes. because users don't have a choice.
their company forces them to use it.

so let's save some time:

offer a business experience if you want but don't treat individual users as second-class citizens while building it.

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

@jackbutcher I’d love to try it! 👋

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

@jackbutcher 👋

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

@rom1trs Vox

[Dylan Field @zoink]

When execution is cheap, design and creativity are the edge.

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside

[Jaytel @Jaytel]

I built myself a chrome extension called Pose

Any clothing model of any store becomes me.

Each brand still conveys their brand aesthetic, but I can quickly understand how something would look on me.

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

@tar_uniqueee @jackfriks made a cool app like this! Check it out :)

[Connor 🇨🇦🏘🚎 @connor__peters]

dont get mad at me for saying this but I actually dont mind if celebrities want to pay the City to be able to do random things like this. Ice in a parking lot or fireworks at night dont hurt anyone.

[Abel 'Pablo' Abraham @DeyCallMePablo2]

I was born to make things. This was a nice reminder.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Great advice

[New @newsystems_]

A clip from New Stadium in Toronto.

When Abel Abraham was 18, he bought what he thought was a flask at a thrift store. It turned out to be an antique folding opera glass named "Princess".

Now it goes everywhere with him, from hiking in Vancouver to watching Mama Mia.

"Honestly, if it didn't have a name, I would have felt very different. I felt like I found a fun little trinket. And I'm from Vancouver, so every time I hike, I would just go and see things slightly bigger."

[PS @dostoevesque]

You have built an entire identity around being someone who could succeed if they tried. That identity is a warm blanket. Real action is a cold shower. When you finally attempt something, you risk losing the story that has comforted you for years. What if you try and discover you are average? What if you try and find no special talent? This is not fear of failure. This is fear of ordinariness. So you stay in the planning phase forever. You buy the notebook. You watch the tutorial. You tell friends your idea. Anxiety spikes whenever someone asks for a deadline. You are not protecting your future. You are protecting a fantasy that has already expired.

[shy fawkes @butterbooter]

when God puts me in strange and terrifying situations, I see myself as a cat going to the vet. it’s good for me somehow, I say, or else someone who loves me wouldn’t have taken me there

[Barry Hertz @HertzBarry]

Toronto is Gotham