Nicolas Cramer

Today I'm sharing Cramer Office—my design studio for founders at inflection points. Here's my thesis

mobile i missed you. hello again old friend

@joshpuckett ha great point. I always think about cézanne painting mount saint victoire a million times

Picasso painted the same view 9 times during a one week pause from a major project and you think you’re iterating enough?

the hard part is still saying no to good ideas

@jeiting thought that was bloomington at first. nothing better than indiana limestone

Have I shown you the Fort Wayne Water Works?

mcp is the worst way to give agents tools, except for all the other ways that have been tried from time to time. - winston churchill

@Austen right, mistake compared to what

Everyone keeps saying this. Fine. MCP sucks. Show me the better thing then!

@Barefoot_Will_ we’ve loved whitin for our son

Parents Get your kids into barefoot/minimalist shoes as early as possible. Go into debt if you have to. (There are actually tons of affordable options.) Kids’ feet are extremely moldable until age 12-18. One simple switch activates 200,000+ sensory receptors for critical brain feedback. One simple switch builds strong natural arches. One simple switch develops proper toe dexterity. Skip this and you’re dramatically increasing their risk of foot, knee, hip, and back issues later in life. Give your kids the foundation they actually need to move well for the rest of their lives.

@Ian8ach go on

codex has completely changed how i computer

@signulll let’s see it

there are 37 posters on my office wall that i have meticulously written & printed. this is the one i read almost every day: “great ideas are the output of the work, not the input.”

watch this baseball coach break down the fundamentals of playing first base during spring training. catching the ball, body position, angles, all of it. masterclass most laptop jobs today don’t get this anymore. we rebranded good coaching as micromanagement

@hemeon Auteurs

What do we call this new hybrid builder? • Design (taste, interaction) • Engineering (ship fast) • AI-native (LLMs, agents) • Product sense (MVP, prioritization) I hear “Product Engineer” or “AI Builder” What are you calling this role?

@benspringwater well deserved

Oh hey, App of the Day!

@joshpuckett @JCKHLRY the tufte stack is key

@JCKHLRY It’s a strong start; gotta add Virgil and Tufte!

Am I a proper designer now? 🤓

@zachpogrob facts. was true back in the day on dribbble too

The more an idea/design goes viral on X, the less likely it is to succeed and have retention

@danielcberk @Spotify why haven't you listened to the baby can't nap or toddler in the car station we made for you?

Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm. Insane that I can’t do this already. My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana. @Spotify please fix this.

@beffjezos 🚀

Now is truly the golden age to be a small team doing something insanely ambitious.

@JaredSleeper you weren’t kidding, what a killer mental model

This is very good.

parallel vs perpendicular businesses (relative to the frontier labs) is one of those mental models that just immediately snaps into place and I can’t unsee it feels like the successor to vertical vs horizontal in @stratechery aggregation theory great read

@tmrohan like lightweight cameras and fast film stock for directors

AI is going to do to designers what typewriters did to writers.

what's the best app for a hands free llm voice conversation while on a run?