mathias

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building something new
and investing in crazy ambitious ideas.

[mathias @usethekey]

@plmsda this is a step up https://t.co/HC2x7y5gon

[mathias @usethekey]

@plmsda nearly none is a real step up.

[mathias @usethekey]

A "senior executive" should be able to manage that without any problems ... 🤣

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

If a CEO hypothetically wanted to make his departure maximally painful for the company he would have:

No successor, no COO, no president besides himself, dozens of direct reports, no 1:1 coaching for any of them, a cult of personality, and all key company contacts as his personal relationships

This is going to be tough

[mathias @usethekey]

great take and big question whether whatsapp will become the consumer slack for AI.

[Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad]

WhatsApp has always been this sleeping GIANT of an asset. 2 billion DAILY active users. Unclear whether it could ever be monetized with Facebook’s ads and the company pivoting into metaworld stuff.

Then AI happened. Then OpenClaw, and the personal assistant form factor was born. And Meta executed the heck out of it for 6mo creating Muse (kudos to Alexandr and team). It turned out to be a really good product and got some early adoption by a few millions.

And now they’re pointing the firehose that is WhatsApp at it. Today I had the Muse mascot in my WhatsApp, it’s just another chat like billions of users know how to use, but it has all the context and tools from Muse.

For twelve years (2014!) it was kind of unclear how WhatsApp would fit into the roadmap. Kudos to Zuck for strategically positioning himself for this all coming together the way it is. Can only connect the dots looking backward.

[mathias @usethekey]

Does this mean all the 10/10 chinese spys come after her now?

[WallStreetBets @wallstreetbets]

BREAKING: Nvidia $NVDA appoints CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO following Jensen Huang's resignation.

[mathias @usethekey]

Is this mainly driven by sheep taking decisions or is there a lot more we don't know?

what seems clear is that the AI revolution can't be led by a hired gun. founder mode is a base requisite in the early days.

Jensen basically drew the key outlines for the current map. but it still seems early days.

[Max Hodak @maxhodak_]

Huge mistake for Nvidia to let Jensen go. Seemed like the writing was on the wall so sold 100% of my 15 year position last night

Not sure what will happen but fairly confident it will not be what the people making these calls right now are expecting to happen

[mathias @usethekey]

lets remember there is something bigger at play and we are but small ants in the wide universe.

we will all survive this moment. jensen will too. so will open models.

[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

Matter of time

[mathias @usethekey]

Pretty excited about a new take on work chat. slack has become unusable. @stewart what happend to the exquisite attention to detail?

[Sara Du @saradu]

for the next 5 hrs ill be personally onboarding folks to ando. just dm me & ill shoot you an access link. only req is you have to tag in someone else, whether a teammate or a friend

[mathias @usethekey]

@saradu @philippberner for your agent os

[mathias @usethekey]

@bnj @philippberner

[mathias @usethekey]

@WillowVoiceAI voicemaxxing

[mathias @usethekey]

@operatzi @beffjezos @grok thank you 🙏

[mathias @usethekey]

@Suhail only you have 27h a day @Suhail

[mathias @usethekey]

@nicbstme @philippberner ☝️

[mathias @usethekey]

🤯 can you imagine what will happen next 🤣

[Nomaan @nomaanahmed]

The absolute courage

[mathias @usethekey]

who wants endless chat vs. clear simple "dashboards" that don't feel like dashboards. 👏 @ekuyda is dropping one new design paradigm after another. soon we will look back at those and think it was obvious.

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

adding an agent to your existing DM/group chat breaks a social contract - and also in iMessages leads to spamming the whole group

wabi DMs/group chat come with an agent inside and wabi makes you widgets that you can glance at and use without spamming the chat - wabi is the only agent built around multiplayer

[mathias @usethekey]

Art imitates life imitates art 🖼️

[Wes @WesleyBancroft]

I don’t use Figma anymore.

For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves.

It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children.

People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question.

I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition.

This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind.

My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it.

Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings.

I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting.

Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today.

A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint.

I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient.

Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.

[mathias @usethekey]

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[mathias @usethekey]

@andrewqu Very curious now …