Quinten Farmer

founder,

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

We're hiring across design, comms, engineering, applied AI, and product support, all in person in San Francisco: https://t.co/iMYNgtwts7

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

When @evangoldschmidt and I started our second company together, we spent no time on the usual founding rituals.

We didn't write a manifesto. We didn't spend hours debating how we would work or how demanding the schedule should be.

We just:
1. Hired people we loved.
2. Set an ambitious pace.
3. Listened to users and made the product better.

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

The team at @nextplayso was kind enough to spend time with a few of our colleagues, folks like @lilsmcthrills and @aseemk. They shared the story of the culture that has emerged from our focus on the work, and on the people we serve.

If you're tired of hype videos and 996 manifestos, you might enjoy reading about our culture of calm: https://t.co/QKd6qKgozU

[Evan Goldschmidt @evangoldschmidt]

rest assured we do not do this at @tolanworld

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@evangoldschmidt @tolanworld the tokens must flow

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@zebulgar @rabois nice, had forgotten about this one

lots of alpha still in those old posts

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

RT @nckntn: Thanks to the folks at @sfswift for having me in last week to talk about how we created feedback loops in our workflow using UI…

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@shahjahan_ch This is full of hallucinations / factual inaccuracies - would appreciate you taking it down. Thank you!

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

tbh not sure how useful my feedback will be, given I'm mostly taking issue with specific but clearly intentional dark patterns... like in the image: I select "shop" not "reactivate", but still get opted into a subscription unless I also separately toggle off "membership" at checkout time. It's all reasonable stuff in the sense that you're trying to max sub growth, I just find it hostile and end up consuming less Cometeer because of it.

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

I genuinely love @cometeer (the coffee), but cometeer the business is just an absolute mess of dark patterns and hostile UX... I buy *less* frequently because of how aggressively they try to drop you into a subscription you don't want

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

Welcome Lele to the @tolanworld design team! Less than three weeks from first day to first major feature shipped :)

[lele @CherrilynnZ]

happy to share that i've joined the design team @tolanworld!
really excited to make experiences that make people's lives fuller & more whimsical :-)

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@1thousandfaces_ what hip / feet stretches? (I also have years of knee pain and would like a "fix everything easily" option)

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@akash_in_2030 @DigitalAges @ash_vellum that's funny since we were your customers pre-pivot :)

it's ok though, you're already getting dragged enough for this launch, I won't also drag you here for conveniently forgetting about Tolan

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

Something I don’t understand in all the discourse about Anthropic and compute: isn’t a substantial fraction of their revenue growth via hyperscaler partners? If so, aren’t they less compute constrained than their first party compute commitments would indicate?

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@harris excited for the "luxury properties" section of the venture codex coming soon

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@samhenrigold you *are* also a Sam with 100% hit rate on being right or entertaining

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

This is really quite good...and you should subscribe, Sam has a 100% hit rate on being either right or entertaining (he's even sometimes both)

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

A bunch of people have written me back saying this was the best newsletter I have ever sent (flattering) ... so here it is for those who don't subscribe: AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

this is great

[Miguel Carranza @elwatto]

at night, better angle

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

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[SIP @spottedinprod]

tolan · reveal
by @tolanworld

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

@Ksaktweets this is also why most of the interesting new restaurants are counter service or a hybrid format... tougher to accommodate a full staff