Adrian Dascal

Young creative, thriving on stories. Talks about Web stuff, some Design & dad jokes.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@VadimCarazan And you did amazing. Glad I could take this shot of you 🔥

[Oracle Red Bull Racing @redbullracing]

Rest in peace, Sir Patrick Stewart 🕊️

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@seb__design Been following ya for some time...Bother I thought u had 200k. Wtf. Congrats on almost 2k

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@Maplethorpej If it sounds like a drug deal, looks like a drug deal….most likely it’s a fu**ing drug deal. Just don’t get addicted to the random quick fixes the dealer gives ya…uhm sorry random usage resets and % usage extras.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@trentreed27 Beware of Hemet Nesingwary papers in the Jungle

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@Professor__Bone 100% agree.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

The moment we lose our willingness to help and teach others is the moment we loose our humanity….especially in the age of AI.

[Dan Mall @danmall]

No, I won’t check out your portfolio.

Here’s why.

Anytime you ask someone to do something, it’s a pitch. In a pitch, say what’s in it for the other person.

What’s in it for me to check out your portfolio? Why would I spend my time, energy, and attention—all of which I value highly—on that as opposed to anywhere else?

If there’s nothing in it for me, then you’re asking for charity.

If you’re asking for charity, then ask for charity. Make it clear. I like doing favors sometimes and being charitable sometimes. But I can’t tell if that’s what you’re asking for, and I won’t assume it.

Even if I agreed to it, you haven’t even given me any criteria. Is there something specific you want help with? Something to improve? Something you’re stuck on? Some job it’s not doing?

General questions get general answers. Specific questions get specific answers.

Since I don’t know what you want help with and there doesn’t seem to be much incentive for me, it’s a pass.

Here are some examples of pitches I would consider more (even if I’d still say no):

“Dan, would you be willing to do me a favor and review my portfolio to help me land a design job working on a U.S.-based team for a fintech startup?”

“Dan, can you please review my portfolio to see if the UI design work feels closer to junior or senior caliber? I’ll make a donation to your favorite non-profit as a token of thanks.”

“Dan, would you mind looking at my portfolio to see if I’m the kind of person you’d hire? I know you value your time, attention, and energy, so I’d gladly take any feedback you can provide after looking for even 30 seconds.”

@odeniransulaimo, wanna pitch again? I’m open to you trying again if you’d like.

But even better: pitch someone who’s in a closer position to help you get what you want. If you want a job at a sports betting startup, pitch a hiring manager at a sports betting startup to check out your portfolio. Even if they won’t hire you for THEIR startup, their feedback would be way more relevant to getting a job at a sports betting startup than my feedback would be, since I’ve never worked at a sport betting startup.

In short, when you pitch, make it about them and make it as easy as possible for them to give you what you want.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@ilyamiskov @socoloffalex Usually I ask for numbers from my clients/internal teams I work with. Most clients are surprised that I ask (cuz they dont even know LOL). Most tbh care for the website / brand to (in short and blunt terms) be “pretty”, “authentic” and “Bring results”. All of them are arbitrary.

[MANSOOR @lifeofmansoor]

Some solid advice here but...

When I started out design, I remember asking people to check out my work but of course 99.9% people ignored but there's this one guy who replied back with feedback on how to improve my work. He was a CEO of a company. He could have ignored, never checked or block me but he did take time from the kindness of his heart. Best part? He hired me later after few months and that was my first job as a designer.

Don't ever stop asking. It is the single most valuable thing you can do to get ahead when starting out.

It is really not about some grand pitch that you need to give. Busy people are busy no matter what. If they don't reply or say no, "I don't have time for you" is implied.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@vanschneider Imma stick to Warcraftverse with no AI 😂

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@edzitron This album will be a banger! Reminds me of Times New Roman in times of cultural fu**enings.

[Matías S. Zavia @matiass]

Oye, Sam Altman, hay rumores de que un científico de Anthropic está a punto de resolver el problema de la vivienda en España

[GSAP @greensock]

💚 Site of the Day - Cip Harvin - Transportation Company

Adrian Dascal — @adidascal

⚙️ ScrollTrigger, SplitText
🛠️ @webflow , Lenis

site → https://t.co/lTvrTWpNoe
showcase → https://t.co/zGjV9MxQ0f

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔An NYU mathematician says OpenAI used his own progress against him to beat him to one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics. Tristan Buckmaster had been working toward a Millennium Prize proof using OpenAI's Codex when information about his progress reached OpenAI.
Days later, OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem using the same uncommon approach, after burning $22.5 million in compute to get there. When Buckmaster confronted them, exec Sébastien Bubeck allegedly said "Why would you ruin your career?" and "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice."

My Take
OpenAI spent $22.5 million to solve a problem with a $1 million prize. They didn't do this for the bounty. They needed a headline that says "our AI solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics" and they needed it before someone else got credit. They started days after they heard about Buckmaster's progress and took the same uncommon approach he'd pursued for months. That's hard to explain as coincidence.

Buckmaster did his work inside Codex. OpenAI reserves the right to train on Codex data. They admit they can't rule out that his usage helped improve their models. So a customer used their product, potentially handed them the roadmap, and then OpenAI outran him with $22.5 million in compute he could never match. I don't know if any of this was intentional. But if you're a researcher and you just watched this happen, I don't think you'd keep your best ideas inside someone else's product.

Hedgie🤗

https://t.co/1YnggU7xdI

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@raduceuca @MultiversX @stefanszakal It has been an honour and a privilege to work with you in these years pushing #23F7DD pixels to lengths that vectors don’t reach. 🤘

[𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐧 @oluwaseun7g]

My absolute favorite theory is that Dumbledore is literally Death from The Tale of the Three Brothers, and the math behind it aligns so perfectly it’s practically text canon.

Voldemort is the first brother who died for pure power, Snape is the second brother who died for a lost love he could never recover, and Harry is the third brother who greeted Death as an old friend.

Dumbledore is the only character who physically held all three Deathly Hallows at various points in history, and he is the exact person waiting to greet Harry at King's Cross station after he gets hit by the killing curse.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@RachitThakur146 @stfnco Borther <insert holy person of choice>….credit the people ur stealing from…at least. Will give ya the PDF version of Steal like an Artist if you want…

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@raduceuca In a way, we are too European to understand this conundrum.

[Adrian Dascal @adidascal]

@internetlabsai @greensock @webflow Used to be a sucker for scroll jacking, yet in years I’ve learned to appreciate the simple things in life.