Tevin ✦

Lead Design @AgnoAgi
Freelance Design at

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Barry White’s vision extended far beyond the microphone.

[capital spidey @capitalspidey]

EVEN THESE SHOTS AREN’T JUST CGI JON WATTS WHAT WERE YOU DOING

[Sketch @sketch]

🆕 A small-but-mighty update, full of good stuff™ for you! 🆕
First up — perceptual (Oklab) and vibrant (Oklch) gradients. Standard RGB blending can get a little muddy, but now you can have your gradients look smoother or more punchy. 🧵 ↓

[Myamura @Go_Jover]

JUJUTSU KAISEN SEASON-4 TRAILER!!

[Agno @AgnoAgi]

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[Figma @figma]

Giving you tab groups so your heads don’t spin

[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.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

“Don’t animate this”… “Only use icons here”… like that’s just your opinion man

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

We need to stop talking about product design in absolutes… there are no rules. Everything is made up. Do what makes sense and feels right.

[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Agno @AgnoAgi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

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[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

We got early access to Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Instead of a simple benchmark, I threw a full investment team at it, testing across 40+ questions.

7 agents, 5 architectures, 3 layers of knowledge, managing a $10M fund with mandate constraints.

Here's the architecture: