Miguel

I have some fun news to share. This week I joined the founding team at @OpacityHQ I love the coaching work with my clients - and i'm still working with a small group - but over the past few months I have missed being on a team and building something together. I've also learned too much not run it back. This past summer I met @drewwilson thanks to a timely introduction from a family member. We hit it off immediately and had fun throwing around ideas on startups and life. Eventually I shared more about my intentions to get back into a startup and he asked me to join him building Opacity. It all just felt right. We're just getting started. The product is coming together, we have some great early backers, and long list of people who want to use it. Can't wait to share more. I wrote a longer take here: whitebeltmentality.substack.com/p/joining-opac…

Big News: I’m super excited to announce @dillonfrd has joined @OpacityHQ! Dillon was early at Typekit, then @Adobe for years, and then was early @SlackHQ and started the Slack VC fund, and was a VC for 6 years. And now he’s helping me build Opacity :D

@drewwilson @NotoriousUSB @lookingforlouj @_dhruvxr @OpacityHQ So cool to be a part of @OpacityHQ 🙏🤯 let’s go!!!!!!

Super excited to have @NotoriousUSB and the whole NVGT team (@lookingforlouj @Dunes04 @_dhruvxr) join @OpacityHQ! So much cool stuff will come from this :D Also, this is my first acquisition, ever!

Welcome to the team @NotoriousUSB and the entire nvgt team! @lookingforlouj @Dunes04 @_dhruvxr 🪩

Woooho🫡

🎉 We just released Rotate Object in Photoshop (beta) 🎉 You can now rotate 2D images! 🤯 Then use Harmonize to add light and shadows, to blend it perfectly with the rest of the scene. It's like Turntable in Illustrator, but instead of vectors, it's pixels in Photoshop!

Naruto vs Sasuke video after almost 1 year of work, I hope you like it 🙏

a new AI skill to add luck to your stack @StephenKing says to write what you know. @tylercowen says to write for AI. I took them both very seriously. github.com/soleio/luck

Good food Good people Good times

@JonahP_ LFG!!!!

It's hard to put into words the amount of excitement I have that comes with my announcement of joining Sentinels. Since day 1 of meeting and practicing with this team I knew I belonged here. Thank you to every single one of you who have had my back since the beginning, I saw every message and you're the reason why I pushed myself and kept going. Together we're going to bring SEN back to the top where WE BELONG! LETS FUCKING GOOOO

Just got done demoing @OpacityHQ to The US Government (@ndstudio)!! That was super fun :D Awesome to know AMERICA itself wants @OpacityHQ 🇺🇸

Every frame tells a story. The energy in the room. The ideas exchanged. The connections made. We captured it all 📸 tokyodesignforum.com/moments

pulled this vintage japanese pocari sweat ad from the 80s for the @forum_tokyo shirts. most people didn't catch it was real. details for the ones who look 👀

the hardest part of conferences is always the goodbye. how do strangers spend 3 days together and leave feeling like old friends? the magic of in-person events compresses years of connection into a few days. the insights, conversations, and memories from @forum_tokyo are coming home with us—into our studios, our teams, our cities. until we meet again. 🇯🇵

Hi, I'm Filipino and I like drawing storefronts, food and trains 🇵🇭 🏠🍲 🚉

Soleio told a story about Johnny Appleseed that nobody at TDF will forget. Turns out he wasn't a barefoot wanderer. He was reading land grant legislation years ahead of settlers. "Luck isn't something you have. It's something you leave behind."

I often tell startups to ship the smallest version of the thing you’re working on and let it bend in the wind of reality. You learn more and gather useful feedback early in the creative process. This is me taking my own medicine, previewing a book-sized idea for @forum_tokyo

First of Kind: The @ryolu_ interview What is the future of design in a post-AI world? Ryo Lu pioneered new patterns for collaboration as Notion’s founding designer. He now leads design at @cursor_ai where he shapes new ways to build software.

Taking a moment to thank our sponsors. This is year one: the inaugural year. No track record to point to. Grassroots. For the design community, by the design community. And these companies showed up: Contra (@contra) Cursor (@cursor_ai) Framer (@Framer) MagicPath (@magicpathai) Opacity (@OpacityHQ) New York Times Advertising (@nytadvertising). Notion (@NotionHQ) They believed in what we're building before there was proof. That means a lot to us... And we are grateful for it! tokyodesignforum.com