i've reviewed ~1,000 portfolio websites so far for founding designers ~3% don't open ~20% of all portfolio website are not responsive ~ 95% of all portfolios have at least one rlly shit project thoughts: if a project is NOT excellent, remove it. 1 good project > 10 shit ones

im tripling the base salary for founding designers @cluely 250-350k cash + equity to be really good at figma i've also removed every single field in the application except "link to portfolio" please be world class

mandatory military service screws korea bad smartest kids in the country get put in a room to do jumping jacks for a year it forces an insanely limited mindset on what u can accomplish since infancy americans are rlly fucking fat but this is the best country in the world

i support writing with ai for everything a clearly expressed thought is that. prompt ai “write me a paul graham type essay” over and over; u will get idea-slop YOU determine when the output accurately represents your thought; that is the benefit

unpopular take: virality >> talking to users 10,000 users’ worth of data is a lot more helpful than talking to 3 users it’s just not recommended because not everyone can get 10,000 users’ worth of data immediately except thx to short form, u can now think more ab going viral

AI apps have only truly transformed a few areas so far: > coding > customer support > post-call meeting notes/intelligence most value still lies with model providers one of the coolest things of the @cluely ux is that it lets you have genuine meeting intelligence in REAL-time, not after the call this is a meaningful improvement on something the world already know works very well one of the few things ai is strictly better at than humans is finding information online, and this is honestly never more useful than in a convo

my mom doesn’t go out on saturdays to hang out with her boy best friend. don’t cheat on relationships.

everyone wants to talk about company culture but no one wants to live it except @cluely (we're tuff)

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