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[Greg @GregFeingold]

Claude & Monet, our interactive experience at the @deyoungmuseum as part of the new Monet and Venice exhibit. Come chat with Claude about Monet! Running until 3/26.

[Greg @GregFeingold]

Full house for the Claude furniture and interior design workshop

[Claude @claudeai]

We spoke with @BenJames_____ about building things, creativity, and why silly ideas matter.

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@WarnerTeddy whoa

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don��t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Greg @GregFeingold]

I love LA

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

The George Lucas Museum Cinema. Opening in September. It’s being described as the “finest” cinema in America. I can’t wait 🙌

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Excited to release Opus 4.8 today! We heard your feedback on 4.7 and have made many fixes for 4.8.

4.8 understands nuances better, feels much more natural to talk to, and is overall a stronger collaborator on everything from coding to knowledge work.

[luiso @luisocampox]

life update: after nearly 5 years at partiful, i’ve joined @anthropicai to manage our influencer community and events

pumped to be a part of this incredible team. if you’re a creator who’s been building with claude, i’d love to chat :)

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@luisocampox @AnthropicAI lfg welcome Luis!

[Greg @GregFeingold]

Free with RSVP here: https://t.co/k6SPmiD7xR

[Greg @GregFeingold]

The @claudeai team is trying something new next week with our friends @AIxDesignCo and Nxt Museum in Amsterdam. Come try prototypes, make stuff, and hang out with us!

[Kait-TP diary @tong_ping_diary]

using Claude to write a foliage painting add-on in Blender
#blender初心者 #blender #b3d #3DCG

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Happy Friday! We've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits.

[Greg @GregFeingold]

Neilson built the holodeck

[neilson @neilsonks]

open-sourcing a 3D gen toolkit for Claude Code

input image → environment, meshes, physics, lighting, & audio

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@TedWind1 taking a look! here's the livestream link in the meantime: https://t.co/E4JoRSCKCp

[Greg @GregFeingold]

/radio in Claude Code for a surprise 🎧🕺🪩

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@TedWind1 Is this what you see when you do /radio ?

[Jake Eaton @jkeatn]

what topics would you like to see the Anthropic Engineering Blog cover more? what do you think the Eng Blog can do better?

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

And if you couldn't make it; we saved everyone some free stickers! Grab a pack before they're gone:

https://t.co/FZHlyLu4JR

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@paularambles the collab happens every day in my email autocorrects

[Greg @GregFeingold]

@lexxbarn 👸👸👸