joannanelson.eth

built execution systems at Twitter so leadership could see what was shipping • ex-Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart • 2× Atlassian award • lowkey a ghost producer

[joannanelson.eth @ThisIsBabyJ]

I’ve spent time at Twitter and Airbnb working on how large orgs actually execute.

Built systems used across leadership to see what was shipping across product & eng (2× Atlassian award, different work).

There’s a deeper opportunity in how companies operate at scale.

I’ve already started building in this space.

DMs open. I respond to interesting people and things.

[joannanelson.eth @ThisIsBabyJ]

Went to Sandbox VR last night. Was dope, but I got super freaking hurt, crashed into the wall because I got lost in the sauce playing Squid Games. Ugh.

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When people ask me how they can get into tech in SF, I usually end up asking well what’s your story? Skills obviously matter. That’s baseline. But your story is what sticks with people, especially in interviews.

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@andrewchen If anything I feel like it’s: ask GPT

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@arlanr hi 🫶

[Ryan @BarDarlingLocal]

SF is the only city where coming home from vacation is an upgrade

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Adam Ten and Mita Gami are playing at Treasure Island today! At Gold Bar Distillery…who else is going? #sf #treasureisland

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@ShahNikbin @ClaudeDevs @claudeai Lmao is it just me or do they literally just spin stuff to literally seem more powerful than they really are?

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@audrlo I’m glad you said kind here, rather than nice. 😊

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The most value in AI right now is NOT in
inventing models.

It’s in making them usable, reliable, and integrated into real systems.

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@amyvanaarle @jxnlco 😂🫶

[joannanelson.eth @ThisIsBabyJ]

It’s interesting what people consider impressive with AI right now

we’ve been building versions of this kind of automation for years

the demo is always the easy part

making it actually work reliably across real systems and teams is the part everyone underestimates, especially in the AI landscape.

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@amyvanaarle @jxnlco and a Swedish woman who’s father is Swedish like myself would reply, I don’t need you to cosign anything. 😂

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@jxnlco

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@toddsaunders this is cool but also kind of funny

we’ve been doing versions of this for years

the demo is always the easy part

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also this account was literally created during that time so technically I have receipts

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we built dashboards at Twitter so leadership could actually see what was going on

Atlassian gave us an award

Elon saw one and was like oh

and bought the company

I ghost produced it

[joannanelson.eth @ThisIsBabyJ]

we did completely different work at Airbnb the year before and got an Atlassian award for that too

this problem shows up in very different forms

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the dashboards are the easy part

getting hundreds of teams to define and track work the same way is the actual problem

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all jokes aside, getting a company that size to operate in a way where that level of visibility is even possible is insanely hard