Jesse Leonardi

Founder @ Lenz | Revenue Intelligence for Law Firms | 15+ Years Scaling Companies

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

Incredible era for game dev

[Kincaid Day @Kincaid_day]

A concept game I've been building over the past two weeks- an HD-2D action RPG I'm building in Unreal Engine 5.8.

Diorama view → one seamless glide into first-person. 12 regions, one connected world, no loading screens between them.

Here's how it's made 🧵

[Peter Mick @ThePeterMick]

modern keyboard for software developers

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@drgurner That is so true.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Opportunities shrink or expand in proportion to your enthusiasm.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

Legendary heart

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Russell Wilson's first week in Seattle, before he'd played a single NFL snap, he picked up the phone and called Seattle Children's Hospital.

The person who answered had no idea who he was.

Wilson's own retelling of that call is the best part of this whole story.

"Who is this?"

"My name's Russell, I just got drafted, I just got here, and I want to be able to come to Seattle Children's on Tuesday."

He came. And after that first visit he told the same person he wanted to come back the following Tuesday.

And every Tuesday after that.

Her response: "Uh, I don't even know if that's allowed."

It became allowed.

Russell Wilson visited Seattle Children's Hospital every Tuesday for a decade.

Not on holidays. Not for photo ops. Every Tuesday during the season, and often in the offseason too when he was in town. Three to six kids each visit.

The director of the hospital's Strong Against Cancer program described what it looked like from the inside. When she'd tell the kids a special guest was coming, their eyes would go wide and some would ask, hopefully, if it was Russell Wilson.

Her assessment of him: "I would love people to know how truly genuine Russell is and how really, truly amazing he is with our patients and their families. He's not afraid to walk into the room and be with these kids."

And a hospital staffer explained why it matters more than an autograph.

"What it does for the patient and their family, it can uplift care. Having someone come in like Russell, he's truly making an impact beyond that five minutes he's in a room. That support puts people in better spirits. It can change how they communicate with a nurse. It's not a one-day thing."

Here's the one that stays with you.

A 16 year old from Everett named Michael Alcayaga was dying of leukemia at Seattle Children's.

The day before he died, Wilson and Macklemore spent about an hour in his hospital room. Wilson wrote in the family's journal and led the room in prayer with Michael's family and his high school friends.

His mother told that story publicly during Super Bowl week.

Wilson also became the public face of Strong Against Cancer, a $100 million campaign to fund immunotherapy research at Seattle Children's. In 2016 alone his foundation presented a check for $1,060,005.

And when he left Seattle, he didn't stop.

He's made repeated visits to Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver, and to UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he's shown up multiple times since signing with the Steelers.

But the ten years of Tuesdays in Seattle is the thing.

Ten years is roughly 170 Tuesdays. It stopped being charity somewhere in there and just became part of the week.

His own explanation: "There's a responsibility. Loving people and serving and giving back are crucial."

A 23 year old rookie cold called a hospital and asked if he could come by.

He never stopped coming.

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[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@eliana_jordan 😂

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@patrickbetdavid @jimmykimmel Wow

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@Jason I’m in

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@danshipper @BenjaminBadejo This is how I currently build (I’m the pirate). It is significantly faster than writing briefs, waiting, editing, etc. like 10x faster. I work on front and backend, architect secures and future proofs.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

Slick

[Nico Bailon @nicopreme]

Created an agent skill called “Visual Explainer” + set of complementary slash commands aimed to reduce my cognitive debt so the agent can explain complex things as rich HTML pages. The skill includes reference templates and a CSS pattern library so output stays consistently well-designed. Much easier for me to digest than squinting at walls of terminal text.

https://t.co/TsbtZwCtxg

[adammaj @MajmudarAdam]

"intention density" is behind the visceral difference between AI outputs that feel beautiful, human, designed vs. uninspired/slop

it points at something much more specific than taste: how many distinct, willful decisions went into an output? how much of its structure can be attributed to intentionality vs. inevitability?

when I watch a Ghibli film, I know that every detail and expression in every frame has been crafted with specific intent (Miyazaki personally drew/edited 80,000 of 144,000 frames in Princess Mononoke). I can feel the creator through the creation.

in contrast, AI tools encourage work with far lower intention density by default.

starting from a blank canvas, you're forced to confront thousands of micro decisions to create a final output. but now that you can write a one-sentence prompt and get a full app or video one-shot, all of these decisions get outsourced, often without you noticing they exist. there can still be high intention in the final work (ex: codex generated apps still feeling pretty good), but the source of this intention is "the way things are usually done" (coming from the model) rather than a particular vision or design.

there's no reason AI output has to be like this though

we can think of the creative process in 2 parts:
1. intention - what do you want to create? why?
2. execution - how do you create it?

AI agents will clearly replace ~100% of the execution part of the creative process. they already have in software and will soon be in film/animation. as they shift up the chain and replace intention as well, creative output starts to feel more trite and indistinguishable.

but for those who are careful to preserve and expand rather than offload their intentionality, they have more time than ever to focus on the details and create far more/better software, art, etc.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@isnit0 Brilliant well done.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

the companies that win…will be the ones that are great at everything except the code.

[Finbarr Taylor @finbarr]

https://t.co/KRlTbtnA8A

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@RepThomasMassie Would America have become a global superpower without the bold—often ruthless—actions of leaders like Andrew Jackson, James Polk (Mexican-American War), and Teddy Roosevelt (Panama & Big Stick)?

Great powers aren’t built by strict adherence to perfect ideology alone.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@RoKhanna Not a revenue issue. A fraud + inefficiency issue. Raising taxes just feeds a broken system. Low upside, high downside.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@ramit The real trickle down is transferring more $ to the govt and expecting that to solve our problems. We have massive socialism and it’s not working.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@bscholl 🎯

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@SecScottBessent @SenWarren @SenAmyKlobuchar @JMilei Forget the UFC, this is the baddest man on the planet.

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@LoganTGott 🤣

[Jesse Leonardi @jesseleonardi]

@danpantelo Honestly - great advice. Would love a code if you still have one.