thinkmaya

Product @microsoft Board @projectGlimmer Advising startups, running trails. Past: Product at GoDaddy Amazon, BlogHer Entrepreneur/Founder. Opinions are mine.

[Black Canyon Ultras @blackcanyonrun]

Prior to 2025, only 7 women had run sub 9 hours on the full course. In 2025, 7 women ran under 9 hours.

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

Tara Dower set a new overall supported fastest known time (FKT) on the 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail, breaking not only the former women’s record but also the men’s.

She also raised nearly $40,000 for Girls on the Run. You can still donate to her fundraiser at the link in the article.

Our full conversation with Tara: https://t.co/ryfzg2Zm63

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

The NotebookLM hosts realizing they are AI and spiraling out is a twist I did not see coming

[Pradeep Pandey @Div_pradeep]

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2. Text To Image
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3. Text To Video
Synthesia → Invideo Al

4. Design
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5. Copywriting
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6. UI/UX
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7. Website
Durable → 10 Web

Follow @Div_pradeep for more.

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

Have you seen @MSFT365Designer Restyle image feature?
Here is a video explaining it https://t.co/0oJkVfvHNU

And these are my kiddos graduation celebratory pics I created using Restyle image on Designer!

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I really discourage 1-on-1s”

Jensen famously has 60 direct reports. When Stripe founder Patrick Collison points out that this isn’t conventionally considered best practice, Jensen shares his reasoning:

“I don’t do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say, I say to everybody all the time. I don’t really believe there’s any information that I operate on that only one or two people should hear about… I believe that when you give everybody equal access to information, that empowers people. And so that’s number one… Number two, if the CEO’s direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers you’ve removed in a company is probably something like seven.”

Patrick offers to steal man the other side of the argument:

“1-on-1s are where you provide coaching, where you maybe talk through personal goals and career advancement, where maybe you give feedback on something that you see somebody systematically not doing so well… Do you not do those things or do you do them in a different way?”

Jensen responds:

“I give you feedback right there in front of everybody. In fact, this is a really big deal. First of all, feedback is learning. For what reason are you the only person who should learn this?… We should all learn from that opportunity… Half the time I’m not right, but for me to reason through it in front of everybody helps everybody learn how to reason through it. The problem I have with 1-on-1s and taking feedback aside is you deprive a whole bunch of people that same learning. Learning from other people’s mistakes is the best way to learn.”

Video Source: @stripe

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

@runcamille @COROSGlobal Incredible! Congrats

[Microsoft Designer @MSFT365Designer]

Guess who got a glow-up! ✨

[Microsoft Designer @MSFT365Designer]

New feature! 📢 Introducing Greeting Cards in Designer! 🎉

Transform a simple prompt into a beautiful card for any occasion in 4 easy steps.🥳🧵#MicrosoftDesigner

[Suno @suno]

Make a song from any sound. Coming soon 🎧

VOL-1: A watering can, but make it psychedelic rock

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

It is easy to make fun of PMs & engineers in big companies who are just launching features, moving pixels around, and are focused on “outputs over outcomes”, but you must understand that some environments are so messed up that a launch (really _any_ launch) is by itself a huge achievement requiring superhuman effort.

Contrary to what people might like to believe on Twitter, these PMs & engineers know that this is not ideal. They know they should be doing things differently.

But the mess around them is just overwhelming. It would be impossible for anyone at the level of an Individual Contributor (IC) or a first-level manager to fix the mess.

While mindlessly scrolling through your Twitter feed, you might think you can fix it.

You ran & exited a highly successful startup
You declined the Thiel Fellowship at 16
You scored 1600 on your SAT
You were a silver medalist at the IMO
You graduated at the top of your class at MIT
You were 30 under 30, thrice

So you are quite certain you can fix Google, you can fix Meta. Heck, you think you can fix both Salesforce & Adobe before it’s time for lunch.

But you can’t. You could be Steve Jobs, you might be Elon Musk. But as an IC or a first-level manager, you won’t be able to fix any of them. Guaranteed.

Plus, in some cases, it is actually just fine to focus on outputs. This is when your product has already succeeded, you are benefitting immensely from Legacy Momentum. With the success came this mess. So this now means that the locally optimal solution as an ambitious and energetic IC is to just launch a thing. Something. Anything.

Ultimately, the onus of fixing the mess is on the leaders (usually Directors & above). They *can* actually fix it.

But some think this total mess is a necessary part of their scale (wrong).

Some are fine with the mess because it benefits their personal career agenda (bad).

Others just don’t know how to fix (very common).

Most leaders try introducing new, better Process to solve this problem. Not all Process is bad, and sometimes you can fix certain issues quickly with Process. But, while Process can be a good temporary band-aid for execution, it is not a permanent fix for deep organizational wounds.

You see, most execution problems are not actually execution problems at all. They are:
1) Strategy problems, or
2) Culture problems, or
3) Interpersonal problems

So the right approach for solving the mess is to have the judgment to debug the real problem, have the courage to formulate a solution that might involve ruffling some feathers, and then get the mandate to go solve it properly.

But unfortunately, this is hard work that requires
A) tremendous skill and
B) trust from fellow leaders & execs

A is rare and B is often in low supply because of the short-term pressure of OKRs & targets and political agendas.

At the right levels, with the right people, it can be solved, but it is by no means easy. And so the problem persists in every large company — at least until the founder returns or a unicorn non-founder CEO like Satya Nadella manages to turn things around.

And until then, the only thing you can do while you are still an IC at this company is put your head down and ship something. Anything.

[Steve Bambury @steve_bambury]

I've curated all the @MSFT365Designer I've shared this last week into one master thread so you guys can find them all in one place 👍

Take a scroll through these 10 and get a sneak peek at some of the new ones I'll be sharing next week at the end of the 🧵

[des_linden @des_linden]

Another one 🫡
Can’t beat those #BostonMarathon feels.

2007 - 18 - 2:44:56
2011 - 2 - 2:22:38
2014 - 8 - 2:23:54
2015 - 4 -  2:25:39
2017 - 4 - 2:25:06
2018 - 1 - 2:39:54
2019 - 5 - 2:27:00
2021 - 16 - 2:35:25
2022 - 13 - 2:28:47
2023 - 18 - 2:27:18
2024 - 16 - 2:28:27

[meb keflezighi @runmeb]

With my fellow runners. From the defending champion to the Boston Qualifiers and charity runners. The sport unites!

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

Definitely regretting my decision to skip #bostonmarathon this year after 2 years and a marathon PR there last year. Missing that indescribably electric energy. #gonnabeback

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

That is pretty rad

[Suno @suno]

Make a song for a Sunday study session 🎻 Anessa @FoodFinessa created ‘Sunday Serenade’ with v3

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

Looking forward to it!

[Jeff Teper @jeffteper]

Copilot in Word case Study. So we're making a set of announcements for Microsoft Teams next week but the blog got kind of long. So we asked Copilot to shorten by 30% but keep the substance. It did in seconds what would have taken us an hour or so. How well did it work? You be the judge next week 😉. #Copilot

[thinkmaya @thinkmaya]

@runcamille @iaunews Congrats Camille!!

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

Get to know Jasmin Paris, the first women’s finisher of the Barkley Marathons, in this profile penned by Damian Hall, a 2-time Barkley attempter himself. https://t.co/Eg9WKozR84

[Keith @keithdunn]

The finishers. #BM100