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Matured in 📍Seoul, born Vietnamese, grew up Singaporean 🗣️English/Tiếng Việt/한국어

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Once you see it you can’t unsee it

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Trump was ridiculed by the media earlier this month when a hidden video camera captured him saying he beat Biden so badly in the debate that Kamala Harris would be replacing him.

Today, that became a reality.

"How did I do with the debate the other night? Kicked that all-broken-down pile of cr*p. He just quit."

"I got him outta the race. That means we have Kamala... She's so bad."

[CNA @ChannelNewsAsia]

Denmark recalls South Korean Samyang noodles for being too spicy https://t.co/nI5GqLy1Fw

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

BEST FOODS TO BUILD MUSCLE:

(A Thread)

[Chris Boettcher @chrisboettcher9]

If you can’t lose stubborn belly fat, this is why (thread):

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

What do you do when you feel like you’ve lost the plot

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The problem is that Korea is a deeply fucked up culture

Ask any Korean and they'll agree

I lived in Seoul on/off for a decade and studied at Korea University

The fertility rate is now the lowest in the world

The division between men and women is the highest in the world

Men complain they can't find women to date

Women complain men sexually harass them, film them with spycams, want them to be stay at home house slaves while they go to karaoke bars to fuck prostitutes

Meanwhile NOBODY is direct, everybody is beating around the bush, while cost of living skyrockets, and mental health problems become an epidemic with extremely high suicide rates

Competitively China took over lots of important markets from Korea and Korea doesn't have much raw materials/resources so they can't compete well

AI chips have gone to Taiwan not Korea

So yeah it's highly fucked

One thing that'd help is Koreans leaving Korea and learning int'l DIRECT culture and taking it back to Korea as some do

Don't get me wrong I had a great time living in Korea and everyone was great to me, it's just a very broken culture and again Koreans are the first to tell you that

I recommend anyone to visit and LIVE in Seoul for a few months if you can, you'll learn a lot

Is it similar to Japan's problems in ways? Yes actually, I'd say Korea way more conformist than Japan though, conformity is another problem of Korea btw, the pressure to conform to everyone's expectations every day stresses out Koreans so much

Koreans call it Hell Joseon

Anyway just perspective from a Dutch person who lived and studied there a lot since 2009

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

Best spots in NYC to...

• Charm a client: The Beekman
• Read a book: Kobrick Coffee
• Happy hour: CloudM Bowery
• Get deep work done: NYPL
• Get a coffee: Bar Pisellino
• Co-work: citizenM Bowery
• Catch a show: Joe's Pub
• Listen to jazz: Bo Peep
• Unplug: QC NY Spa

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

The world's largest consumer tech event, CES 2024, has come to an end.

Here are 10 reveals you don't want to miss from CES 2024 event:

1. Arovia's "SPLAY" is a Mix of a Projector and a Foldable Screen

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

This is actually insane

A new type of device, a pocket companion. They’re not trying to replace your phone

It’s AI enabled hardware that understands interfaces & can complete tasks for you

You can even teach it through screenshare

& it’s only $199 🥵

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

It's only been 1 day of CES 2024, and the tech developments have been incredible.

The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2024 so far:

1. The world's first transparent MICROLED screen by Samsung

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

I found an app that gets you 3%+ off Michelin star restaurants in NYC.

Had a meal at Marea last night. Delicious. $50 off the bill and 20% cash back.

Definitely one of those NYC life hacks that won't last long.

(Get it before they run out of VC money)

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Fat loss hacks I know at 44 that I wish I knew at 24:

[gaut @0xgaut]

dudes that pivoted to AI during the crypto bottom to build a chatGPT wrapper watching crypto go back to all time highs

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps.

I still use it everyday.

Last week, the team dramatically changed the map’s visual design.

I don’t love it.

It feels colder, less accurate and less human.

But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale.

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Google Maps has started to widely roll out updated map colors:

- All roads are now gray

- Water changed from blue to teal

- Parks and open spaces are now mint green

It seems the goal was to improve usability and make the maps more readable.

Admittedly, I do think major roads, traffic, and trails stand out more now.

But the colors of water and parks/open spaces blend together.

And to me, the palette feels colder and more computer generated.

But color choices aside…

If the goal was better usability, the team missed a big opportunity:

Google Maps should have cleaned up the crud overlaying the map.

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So much stuff has accumulated on top of the map.

Currently there are ~11 different elements obscuring it:

- Search box

- 8 pills overlayed in 4 rows

- A peeking card for “latest in the area”

- A bottom nav bar

(Personally, I would LOVE to see usage metrics for all these overlays.)

The map should be sacred real estate.

Only things that are highly useful to many people should obscure it.

There should be a very limited number of features that can cover the map view.

And there are multiple ways to add new features without overlaying them directly on the map.

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Here’s how it could look:

- Keep the search box

- Keep the bottom bar

- Remove everything else from the map

- Roll the most used features into the bottom bar

- Bury the less used features elsewhere in the app

I assume the search box and directions are top priority and should remain prominent.

My Location and map layers (satellite, traffic, etc.) could move to the bottom bar.

The explore overlays (restaurants, gas, etc.) could live in the bottom bar in “Explore” and open as cards.

The additional space in the bottom bar could be used for Saved, as a “More” option, or could be removed entirely.

There are many variations of how features could be arranged.

But the key points are:

- Dramatically simplify

- Strongly prioritize map visibility

- Bury legacy and low use features

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It’s normal for products to accumulate features over time.

But it’s also super important to stay vigilant and continually clean them up.

In many ways, it’s interesting to see history repeating itself.

In 2007, I was 1 of 2 designers on Google Maps.

At that time, Maps had already become a cluttered mess.

We were wedging new features into any space we could find in the UI.

The user experience was suffering and the product was growing increasingly complicated.

We had to rethink the app to be simple and scale for the future.

It seems like it’s time for Google Maps to do this again…

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For more on design + tips for early stage founders, follow me on X: @elizlaraki

[Garlam @GarlamWON]

Happy retirement @cz_binance

thank you for all you've done for the industry

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Amazing progress made today. We will come back stronger & more unified than ever:

[Lynx (Perpetuals DEX) @Lynx_Protocol]

@sama that was a great movie

[Sam Altman @sama]

❤️🫡❤️

[Sam Altman @sama]

i love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya’s support, i’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.