Ben Stander
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Ben Stander
@benstanderr
i like to build products, and buy books i never read
wdym of course there’s an agent right on the design canvas that’s fluent in Figma and native to the way your team works
We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below
imagine a massive datacenter here
Proposal to acquire eBay. investor.gamestop.com/ebay
Sam Altman just changed his X name to Sam Mogman Humanity is so cooked
Software market so bad that VCs are now pivoting to becoming landlords
.@Collision is bullish on two types of people: high-agency individuals and double majors. "There are two categories of people I would be super bullish on right now and I think will do incredibly well over the next 10-20 years. First, high-agency people. The people at Stripe who have been talking to customers and know exactly what we should do. It's the people who have that pep in their step and want to go make Stripe better. They are so much more empowered thanks to AI." "The second is double majors. I think if you understand software and understand finance, or if you understand software and understand marketing, you now can go massively improve the entire marketing funnel for your company. Now, one person can do what would have taken 20 people dredging through all these systems." "Charlie Munger talked about the importance of being multidisciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking. He thinks getting a functional understanding of many disciplines is not that hard. You can just go read the books now or you can talk to your AI about it. I think multidisciplinary thinkers are going to do incredibly well."
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
Thiel Fellowship Founding Director @DStrachman: "I want to be funding 11 year olds." " They're incredibly creative and interesting and can be starting earlier." "The barrier to entry on getting started doesn't need to be when you're 18 anymore. It can be quite a bit younger."
We've re-built Conductor from scratch to make it twice as fast. Creating tabs, switching workspaces, and rendering files are all 50% faster, memory usage is lower, and the app is 150 MB smaller. Introducing Conductor Allegro!
australia has grown fat and comfortable over the last 30 years – we have stopped valuing the hard stuff. so i'm putting energy behind something called build australia. join us. it's designed to drive the cultural shift we need, get australia building again. to move the overton window and force real change. launching today, it’s a visible platform for ideas and software projects - essays, data visualisation and dashboards that paint an optimistic future. if you believe in building things in this country, whether that's houses, companies, products, films, anything... join us… website in comments