John Ashenden

Designer. Dreamer. Doer. FL → NY → SF. Maps @GobiMaps. Former @guidedotco, @wearetmsf, @mesosphere, @grooveshark

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@elonmusk Evidence. Ask Grok if you’re not sure what that word means.

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@kanyewest Punctuation bro

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@ishotasegod @unusual_whales Imagine that! A politician actually enacting policy in line with the will of their constituents in the hopes of (shock) gaining their approval.

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@superguenter ✌️ Goodbye old friend. Mesosphere (as it will always be known to me), was a great company. Grateful for the opportunity to work with so many talented and down-right fun humans.

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@Ash_uxi Consider flipping the pencil so it’s facing down, like how you’d hold a pencil. Will help with recognition.

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@MrBeast I will cash out all money in exclusively $2 bills

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@superguenter

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@TylerGalpin I’d subscribe to this newsletter.

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@EpicallyHarshed …but will spend my precious $ on anyways 😭

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@TylerGalpin At least your first playlist is Heaven.

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@TylerGalpin The popular narrative that this is some sort of free money tech bail out is both ignorant and scary. I expect to see it from anti-tech trolls, but to see it from people in the industry who know better and are just pandering for likes is disheartening. Fuck those guys.

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@superguenter Sell! Sell! Sell (Jim Cramer)!

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@Jonnotie @Larkef ❤️

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Hot take from @nickstamas on AI for design is spot on. Vector designs build on text files, making them the perfect data set for versioning (@goabstract), scripting, or 🥁 LLMs. These AI design tools floating around are toys compared to the data treasure trove Figma is sitting on.

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Spoiler alert: AI isn't going to take your design job.

But there's one company that's sitting on a hidden mountain of data that could radically change the way products are designed. The rest are likely vaporware or toys.

Here's my prediction 👇

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@nickstamas Very typical journey. Thanks for sharing so transparently. I’m inclined now to write a similar thread.

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@TylerGalpin Hit me up papito. I got a whole Rolodex

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@TylerGalpin He is pointing out that (product) design benefits from orgnztn that aligns semantically/structurally with how it’s built - forcing you to be more thoughtful about choices. I agree. But, he’s focused a specific optimization, not the problem. Named layers ≠ good organization.

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@krishnaar21 @jamesm 👆 this.

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@dainal Coming real soon.