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"Not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage." Replit CEO Amjad Masad: "You don't need any development experience. You need grit. You need to be a fast learner." "If you're a good gamer, if you can jump in a game and figure it out really quickly, you're really good at this." "Coders get lost in the details." "Product people, people who are focused on solving a problem, on making money, they're going to be focused on marketing, they're going to be focused on user interface, they're going to be focused on all the right things." "I think this year it's gonna flip, and I think not having a coding background is gonna be more advantageous for the entrepreneur." @amasad with @jackhneel

Design is the future of open source. 🧵

If you are into internet rights or a human being in the digital space, this podcast is a must from @javierpallero, a leading expert in the field. Congrats my friend for such an amazing and insightful project. Check it out 👇

@micka_design @metalab Thanks man! How did you start the year?

@aschlstrt @metalab Congrats man! Well deserved

Great times

@JackEllis Cal Newport has a very similar approach. He called “mind debugger” and is basically a note in Notes app. I started using it since I heard about it and is extremely useful.

My cofounder, the most CONSISTENTLY productive person I’ve ever met, has been doing this for ~15 years.

@cursor_ai Yes 🔥 🔥

You can now design directly in your codebase. Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code.

Here's why I strongly recommend that you learn product design immediately, if you want to branch into tech. I spent the better part of this year looking for one good designer. Just one, and I'm not talking about someone who move things around in Figma, because that's the easy part. I was looking for someone who actually understands design thinking, is obsessed with every colour or alignment on their screen, and gets that design isn't just pixels, but problem-solving with aesthetics. The search was exhausting because I was combing through 700+ applications with salary quotes that ranged from 200k to 1.4m Naira. Then the dollar range was from $300 to $3800 per month. Still, I couldn't pick anyone. I didn't go through all 700, but I saw over 100 portfolios, got bored, or more like pissed, gave up, and finally hired a random lady I saw on the TL. What did I learn from this? There's a massive gap between supply and demand for really good design talent. With the way AI has exploded, and anyone can now build/code products in a weekend, there's now an explosive growth for designers, and no, AI isn't replacing designers, at least not yet. The barrier to entry is shockingly low if you approach it right, and for most skills, it only takes one hundred hours of active learning to become competent. One hundred hours. That's roughly 20 minutes a day for a year, or one hour a day for 6 months if you're serious. Most people calling themselves designers today don't understand the concept of design principles, and can't grasp interaction design. A little aesthetic? Zero! This is your opening. While the market is flooded with mediocre designers, companies are desperate for people who actually understand design principles and can make beautiful designs. The economics are in your favour too. So, if you're trying to become a product designer that can design aesthetically pleasing screens, here's your action plan... Spend your first 3 months understanding user psychology, fundamentals of visual hierarchy, and most importantly, study why certain design decisions work or fail. Deconstruct products you use daily. Why does this app feel great while this other one frustrates you? What makes this website's navigation obvious versus confusing? The companies hiring right now aren't just looking for anyone, they're looking for designers who can think strategically and make complex things simple. If you have an eye for great design and can spot when something feels off even if you can't articulate why yet, you have the raw material to become a great designer. The rest is learnable, and faster than you think. The market is waiting. Companies are literally begging for designers who get it, and with AI handling the repetitive grunt work, the demand for strategic design thinking is only going up. Stop overthinking it. Your 6 months journey starts now.

Me when I hear someone say design is art

When vibe coding started getting popular, some people said, “we won’t need designers anymore, you can just design things yourself.” The opposite happened. I talked to a well respected designer friend today who said freelance design rates are getting more expensive, and hiring a full-time designer in the U.S. now starts at $150K. He shared a framing I liked: "Teams understand the models are going to make everyone 7/10 designers. Which does eliminate the need for low end of the market. But if you can help someone ship 9 or 10/10 design you’ve never been more valuable because it’s now one of the core means of differentiation." AI made bad design easier. It also made great design harder & more expensive.

Explicame cómo se sigue después de lo que se vivió este fin de semana

@facu_suarez Qué locura estas fotos que sacaste DESDE EL POGO!!

Bueno dejo algunas fotos de ayer desde el pogo. Los Gallagher 🥹🫶🏻

@adele_liam Every crowd has been BIBLICAL we do not discriminate there’s not been a bad crowd but Argentina is something SPECIAL it’s a fact

@rgsnbre Recomiendo 200%

Recomendación: cásense con la que les gusta desde la secundaria

@insertinterests @nicogarcia The "fake it until you make it" mindset made many people forget who they are as a leverage to become the best version of themselves, to create a facade of what people like to hear/see/be to make it without putting on the reps.

Fake it until you make it. I woke up this morning to an insane design twitter drama. I follow many designers for inspiration but I severely underutilize X so I didn’t know who this guy was. A few days ago @nicogarcia popped up on my timeline for the first time after his account blew up when he posted a $28,000 payout from X. Something that would certainly be @0x45o’s wet dream. His profile had all the “ingredients:” ✅ SF lore ✅ Former Meta designer ✅ Posting job offers, his comments filled with jr designers hungry for work ✅ Sharing five digit earnings Then this morning @i_amnajaved called him out for not paying her. He then posted a screenshot of a $100 payment for a responsive site with a caption that enraged everyone “I was so mesmerized by her great work I forgot to pay her.” All sorts of designers came out with receipts of the dude not paying and hustling designers for lower rates. Offering $250 for a full responsive site with 6 pages (like whaaat?!). Then a quick look at his Linkedin and previous posts and all the dots get connected: 👎 He’s not based in SF. I’m in LA and he offers discovery calls at 4am my time… 👎 His big $ payments seem to actually be Uruguayan Pesos (same $ symbol) $1 USD = $40 Uruguayan Pesos 👎 He farms engagement through job offers he doesn’t follow through. 👎 Exploits young designers from other foreign countries. 👎 His work at @Meta is unverifiable. But he lists working at FB 2013-14 and Whatsapp 2022-23 both positions in Latin America. What’s icky is they were a decade apart. Why am I posting this? As a reminder to myself that anyone can manufacture an online identity. Use the right keywords, farm engagement, and build your status. And you know what? There’s nothing wrong with that. You have to be completely delusional to succeed. Faking it until you make it is not an option, you have to believe the life you want. The problem comes when people don’t come through. When what they’re doing is try to cheat their way to success by not putting in the hours or not developing the talent. Be careful out there, designers. Let’s take care of each other and lead with respect for ourselves and the craft.