Tony

Creative firepower 🌋 Decks, apps, sites, & logos for startups & investors @longjourneyvc @crusoeai @DandelionChoco @NianticLabs @ridgeline_apps

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

Can’t spell billion without a couple Ls

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

Google form is next level insulting hahah

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

Bro, Claude can’t even do customer support well wtf we talkin about

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

Fools using a google form. Homies trying to tease AGI and they using a google form

https://t.co/tO65xc9N48

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

There’s genius in range

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@jxnlco @immad was good

[Joshua Kushner @JoshuaKushner]

what if everything goes right

[Mike Wang @zmwang]

After our kid was born, my wife said: “Mother’s Day now matters more to me than my birthday.” I asked her how she wanted to feel:

She said:
- heard
- seen in her motherhood
- free to reflect on her new identity

I designed a Mother's Day around those feelings

My recipe🌲👇

[Mario Gabriele @mariogabriele]

Investor Cyan Banister (@cyantist) has backed SpaceX, Uber, Niantic, and Flock Safety. A majority of those investments did not emerge from a formal meeting.

Uber traced back to a conviction that the taxi medallion system was a racket. Niantic grew out of watching friends charter helicopters for an obscure geolocation game. Flock Safety materialized from reading the public WiFi list at a Four Seasons cafe.

Her method is not a framework. It is attention: a lifelong habit of noticing bottlenecks, tracking human obsessions, and poking at reality until it reveals something others missed.

In this conversation, she covers:
• Why the taxi medallion system was the real Uber insight
•How she found a $7 billion company on a public wifi list
• The Biz, Tizz, and Rizz framework for identifying legendary founders
• Why the age of the polymath is arriving faster than most people expect
• How brain-computer interfaces are surfacing thoughts from two weeks prior
• Why she believes vibe manufacturing will mint the largest wave of new millionaires in a generation

The signals she is reading now are worth understanding.

@thegeneralistco

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(00:00) Intro
(03:51) Never playing the game you appear to be playing
(07:18) Practicing childlike wonder as a daily discipline
(10:08) Questioning belief after her stroke
(13:30) Cyan’s metaphysical experiments
(23:24) Non-local consciousness and creativity
(27:22) Investing with extreme openness to signals
(29:05) The importance of timing in investing
(32:26) Meeting Travis Kalanick
(34:19) Finding Flock Safety through a chance encounter
(38:23) The summer of Pokémon Go (what worked and what didn’t)
(39:55) Human nature and what makes something "stick"
(42:15) Brain-computer interfaces and AI’s accelerating effect
(52:53) “Biz, Tiz, Riz:” her framework for evaluating founders
(59:20) Why Cyan lives in a retirement community part-time
(1:03:50) A unique way of finding books that speak to you
(1:08:44) Final meditations

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@polbesana_ @QuiverAI I would have taken me 3-5 mins

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@polbesana_ @QuiverAI It’s sad that designers can’t just use a pen tool still. Been like two decades. So easy.

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@yahyavision I’ve been doing this too. Very fun to make sprites of many sketched concepts

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@Alexxcastlee @daveschatz So different and both so basic

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

Oh wow, lovable is trash. go figure

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@s_a_c99 @cyantist Woah! New high score!

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

so many fun Easter eggs just dropped on @cyantist website. See if you can find them hehe

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

Authentic people are always slightly threatening to those living in bad faith. They make the machine visible.

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@geoffreywoo Self service is the future. https://t.co/ZTJsAYOUAw

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@Aurelien_Gz @madebydaybreak The time to finally build the experiences designers used to dream of and developed used to shut down because of story points

[Noel Moldvai @noelregrets]

Something I've wanted to build since day one: a private markets experience that actually feels like a consumer product.

Today, the @AugmentMarkets app is live on the App Store. Track your watchlist. Monitor the Power 20. Get private market intelligence wherever you are — not just when you're sitting at a desk.

We built this for investors who think about their private holdings the same way they think about their public portfolio. The information should be just as accessible.

Get it here: https://t.co/b3qWrnPG5r

[Tony @AskTonyDesign]

@andrewchen @ImGordonSun Finally