Shaurya Narang
@NarangShaurya

prev design @serval, @duolingo, @doordash, @kp_fellows, acq startups, 500m+ views.

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Joined June 2018
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sometimes you have to host a design dinner with @BainCapVC and your design friends, till next time.
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I hate to see it, but with all these fomo based slop releases we might need PMs again. So much bs being released by companies with unlimited resources in an effort to be first. I want a lab/leader that releases when it’s amazing not as fast as possible. But that may get in the way of keeping the bubble up, and it’s the classic standoff of quality and speed. The good teams will find a way to do both, but the balance is far from struck.
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brent 🌹🗽@BrentInQueens
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American decline in a single sentence
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Instagram has become a slop machine. I don’t want to scroll stories, I want to see what’s going on for people I care about. It’s just facebook now.
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Make space to do things the old way. I know engineers miss real coding and designers miss sweating the details by hand. It makes you better at the craft with agents when you practice without it. (Rock lee). Agents are great, but some people want to carve the marble because they love to carve the marble. Not only because they want people to appreciate the sculpture. Decouple the warp speed from the art to keep the love of the game!
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They need to use the iPhone Air design for the pros. The soft aluminum brick is so bad
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Perfect always gets better with a little bit of imperfect
Kontra@counternotions
Sep 30
30° tilted, not stirred. ↓
“Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

ALT “Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

“Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

ALT “Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”
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Kontra@counternotions
Sep 30
30° tilted, not stirred. ↓
“Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

ALT “Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

“Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

ALT “Designed around a very clever 30° tilt, this Tilted Watch Band puts the Apple Watch at a slight slant, so it’s facing you even when your wrist isn’t. Normal protocol is to lift your wrist up perfectly horizontal, so the screen faces you in the right orientation. Tilt the band and you don’t have to make your wrist horizontal anymore – just hold it at a comfortable angle and the Watch screen faces you a lot more naturally, letting you read the time without flexing your hand or your neck too much… perfect for joggers or bikers who don’t have the luxury to orient their hands while mid-activity.”

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I don’t think you find yourself, crafting identity is hunting.
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The agent needs to do the work to show off what it is capable of to the average consumer
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I seriously think about how fucked the education system is with ai. Like I can’t imagine what a 12 year old prompting Claude couldn’t do.
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There needs to be a much more custom and non predatory internet.
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I host these film screenings and we definitely do love to discuss after
anu
@anuatluru
Sep 24
I would pay a lot of money to attend early screenings of films with people I actually care to talk about them with, in cozy theaters with updated takes on snacks
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Jack Altman
@jaltma
Sep 24
What an insane time. We are so lucky to be working in tech right now.
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Farhan Thawar
@fnthawar
Sep 24
One day, you'll realize that no one was really watching, and you could have done whatever you wanted
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How is this a bug in the production version
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next up: “I am selling advertising space on my iMessage pins”
Darshan Golchha
@tecxbro
Sep 22
imessage stack update what do you guys use?
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Jason Levin
@iamjasonlevin
Sep 22
One day some mid-level Amazon PM will suggest changing this beautiful Kindle icon. He will make $300k/year but has no marketable skills because of AI. He must keep his job to keep his 2-bedroom apartment in New York and save up for a place in the Hamptons. So he suggests changing this icon that makes people feel things because it’s uninclusive to women who read books or adults who read books or dogs who eat books. The higher-ups at Amazon also agree because change is good. Change means you are improving things. Change is how you keep your job and 3rd house upstate. Every redesign is done by some guy like this or agency full of guys like this. They redesign beautiful icons and logos solely to support their second homes.
Andreas Storm
@avstorm
Sep 22
McLaren got a rebrand
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Higher education is really flawed when it comes to teaching the capabilities of this tech and shepherding it toward the right places to further humanity. I’m excited to see more non college institutions start creating places for people to learn the real relevant things at at a breakneck speed. The domino effect of new institutions like these may even save higher education in the very long run.
Gagan Biyani 🏛
@gaganbiyani
Sep 22
Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/
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staysaasy
@staysaasy
Sep 20
The problem with all of these AI personal assistant things is that people don’t actually want to do stuff. You fucking get that right? Do you understand that? Just like AI tools in the workforce, AI assistants don’t actually abstract decisions for you, they let you accelerate decision making. So instead of making one decision a day and then lamenting you can’t do more, AI assistants are going to let you make ten decisions a day and act on all of them. A miracle? Nah dog, a fucking nightmare. Nobody except type A strivers who need Twitter fodder actually want that. Let me tell you a story. When I got back from college I was inspired. If I could take on an elite university with grit and determination, so could everyone I know. I was all razzed up to get people I know to achieve their potential. What I learned after many years of trying is that absolutely nobody wants to realize their potential. People want to hang out with friends and complain. That’s how the world has worked for ten thousand years. This weather fucks. Can you believe the cows walked off. People don’t want enablement. People don’t want you to take all of their excuses. TV is mindless passive activity. AI assistants are not. They’re telling people that they can achieve more. And people absolutely do not want that. Let me tell you another story. Once upon a time I lead a big process overhaul at work and it was great. Two years later I hired a contractor to do something similar. But I personally didn’t want to have to do a bunch of work. Within a week I knew I fucked in. This contractor kept coming to me with decisions I needed to make. Dude I wanted to not have to think about this. Again, a helper when you don’t actually want help is a disaster. None of these AI assistants will take off because people don’t actually want assistants.
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Luke Berry
@LukeberryPi
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i'm hiring a senior jev engineer at least 2 years of experience with jev is a requirement dm
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