Adam Fry-Pierce

Since 2016, I've had conversations with ~5000 design leaders at 200+ dinners and ~100 virtual events, and lots of slack threads. I also helped drive some industry benchmarking reports. I finally synthesized all the notes. A thread on lessons learned about design leadership. 🧵

Since Jan, I’ve been working on two products in my studio with 3 humans, and about 20 agents. Product 1: - mvp built, established product market fit, got our first 50 consumer customers Product 2: - prototype built, established partnership with enterprise client 🫨🏃💨

@intocryptoverse I heard Elon was going to do a lot when he bought x Is your experience getting better or worse since that happened

This platform has a major problem that is getting worse than the crypto scambots. Almost every single post just has dozens of AI slop replies that do nothing but agree with the person posting. Is anything being done to combat this?

@MillieMarconnni This, like everything, changes things. But the industry isn’t “killed”. It just changes.

🚨 BREAKING: Google DeepMind just dropped Project Genie and it quietly kills the entire game development industry ☠️ You type a prompt. It generates an infinite, explorable 3D world in real-time. This changes everything ↓

@intocryptoverse Greedy when others are fearful! Silver time.

Wow the GOLD/SILVER ratio went from 50 to 60 very quickly

@intocryptoverse Ben, if someone had an actual innovation in crypto that you might be interested in, what’s the best way to get it on your radar?

I did not turn my back on the altcoin market. The altcoin market turned its back on me when it became nothing more than useless memecoin slop. The KOLs that go around saying I am "anti-crypto" don't even know what crypto used to be before they joined. It used to be exciting and felt like innovation was actually happening. Then these new guys joined and just shilled memecoins non-stop and innovation practically grinded to a halt. Now all people care about are shilling memecoins, strategic reserves and ETFs. What ever happened to changing the world? Now they act like I am the bad guy for saying memecoins should go to zero. Crypto is not what it used to be, but one day I think it can return to that.

@AutismCapital That can’t be true

🚨TRUMP: "We spend $78B on translators for children of illegal immigrants in schools who don't speak English."

If I had to condense prompt engineering into seven simple steps, these would be it. Even implementing one of these building blocks will significantly improve your AI productivity. Here's the full breakdown👇 (Save it for future reference)

@AutismCapital People out here hunting machines likes it’s irobot

Hope all the Waymos stay safe out there today.

Flag post 62/144 goes to one of my oldest and true friends in this world, original studio pal, one of the best thought partners and someone you can always discuss the world with. @AdamFryPierce you keep us going 💪

@mjhailescu @intocryptoverse Banks estimating cuts in December.

@intocryptoverse It is now clear that we will have a cut in june due to a stable/downtrending inflation which i very much find it bullish

Core CPI Actual: 2.8% Estimated: 2.8% Prior: 2.8%

I'm 43. If you're still in your 20s (or 30s), read this:

The practical art of effective marketing, of being truly seen, becomes even more critical than it already is...

The bottleneck shifts away from someone's ability to create, to someone's ability to be discovered. The challenge becomes more about attention. If we do see a magnitude more of A+ art in the world, we have a hyper-saturated landscape, and capturing users becomes the real game.

Consumer industries have long praised creative vision, while the brutal reality was the exorbitant cost of execution. It's looking like generative AI is The Great Leveler – making it easier to execute ideas. A quick thread on where I think we're going

FROM MAGA TO CHINA Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China. (1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of competitiveness. (2) Second, MAGA also understands that the US has wasted trillions abroad in foreign wars, but thinks the problem is global leadership itself rather than poor leadership. (3) Third, MAGA knows that their Blue American enemies have allies abroad, but has incorrectly overreacted to this by treating every non-Red-American as an enemy. (4) Fourth, MAGA sees the billions of dollars flowing from the US to foreign recipients, but isn't grasping that the US can only print those dollars in the first place so long as it's the hub of a global empire. When you put these together you can both understand MAGA's actions and understand why they will not lead to the intended result. Basically: MAGA is hyperfocused on cutting off any apparent flow of funds from Red Americans to Blue Americans and non-Americans. And they only have ~500 days in power. So they're trying to quickly shut off imports, close down institutions, and exit all wars. OK. Except the reason the imports exist in the first place is because US products aren't competitive relative to Chinese products (or Fed printing). The reason those institutions exist is because the US set them up to run the world. And the reason those wars are happening is not because of American leadership per se, but because of the absence of good leadership. If you shut all of that down at once — if you abandon global competition and global leadership — you shut down American Empire, and with it the ability to print money. And then everyone in that empire has a very bad time.

Anytime you read an insane viewpoint on X that seems like a lot of people are agreeing with (for example, invading a sovereign country can be justified): Try and search their name on Linkedin or Instagram and see if they’re actually real people. You will be surprised how much of your worldview is shaped by bots.

This is beautiful and I’m excited to see all of the good that comes out of this initiative ❤️🤩

Both are true

@Not_Bhavin @punk9059 Wouldn’t stablecoins solve this?

Getting my teeth cleaned and my hygienist says: 1) her husband has 100% of his money in XRP. He’s convinced it’s going to $1000. 2) there is a dog cartoon related to XRP and something with a castle and a king she mentioned that her husband talks about? 3) she said they can’t afford BTC which I thought was interesting. She’s educated etc. What are the channels that do the most XRP promoting? I hear extremely bullish people pretty often outside the trenches.