Lucas Terra

I've been saving some stuff on the design + ethics intersection and decided to put it on a thread.

@carlrivera @nubank Nubank is the most focused and customer obsessed team I've ever been part of. Good luck pushing it into its next phase 🚀

I’m becoming CPO at @nubank. Everyone has a bank. Almost no one loves theirs. We’re going to change that.

@bnj If possible, would love to join for an afternoon around the second week of May

Slight preference towards other startups Particularly those that need design help

We’re a team of 5 with over 4500 sq ft of (beautiful) office Right next to Notion, Figma, Anthropic, etc If you’re a dreamer pushing the frontier, we’d love to host you in our space for free

@NotionHQ My Notion workspace is so organized it has a dedicated database for “Notion jacket I don’t own yet.” Help me fix that :)

We heard you like jackets. Have a few to give away. Make your case for one below.

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr ✨

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

@flpr @GoogleDeepMind 🖤

New project 🚨 Building a hypothetical brand for @GoogleDeepMind with Nano Banana Pro: yoyoyo.ai

@ParvSondhi @soleio @maryrosecook @jocarrasqueira @adelwu_ @NotionHQ 💯 > Apathy can be a stronger signal than failure. If your career is working on paper, but you feel dead inside with every win, that's not ingratitude but a data point about what you want to be doing.

It’s been a minute since I posted anything but been thinking a lot about this panel on careers from last week with @soleio @maryrosecook @jocarrasqueira @adelwu_ and Sarah. One of the few conversations on career that felt honest about the messy parts If you're feeling stuck, took a few notes which felt worth sharing here (no sanitized LinkedIn advice, just what actually happens when you're in between versions of yourself) No one shied away from the non glamorous phases of our life/careers: grief, apathy, reinvention, & ambiguity and of course we also chatted about AI One of the most useful ideas: prototyping different futures in parallel. Assign different paths to different time blocks and experiment. Watch where your energy naturally goes after the honeymoon phase wears off. It's usually a good predictor of where you want to pursue deeper work Career pivots are usually framed as a strategy problem but they're often grief problems. You're not just leaving a job, but potentially leaving an identity, a status story, a version of yourself you spent years building. And that's ok. The strategy part is easy. The letting go is hard. Just build and ship. Only way to move forward is to do the damn thing. No point in wasting time thinking in circles about stuff. That's just wasted energy Contrarian but true: Apathy can be a stronger signal than failure. If your career is working on paper, but you feel dead inside with every win, that's not ingratitude but a data point about what you want to be doing. Don't worry so much about resume gaps. These unstructured periods also contain real career work like recovery, experimentation, and identity building and taste formation. The world is slowly catching up to this. Your job is to articulate what you learned, not apologize for the space. Soleio shared this underrated career exercise - Ask 2-3 people who know you well, "How do you describe me to other people?" They often see your strengths and through lines more clearly than you do, especially when you're in a transition. A subtle but important shift is that the future may reward people who care more about outcomes than ownership. Mary talked about AI writing code, and being ok with it. Why? Because she cared about making things, not defending old processes. Another contrarian take which i think was so interesting to hear and has had me thinking still A coherent identity is overrated (thank you @soleio for this wonderful line) Contradiction isn't always confusion. Sometimes it's just evidence you can contain multitudes. Vulnerability can deepen your network, not weaken it. People tend to respond with more trust, not less. That said, be strategic about where you're vulnerable. Not every room rewards honesty the same way. Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg for the night. So many after panel conversations. Also got a chance to meet so many awesome people, felt like finding my crowd (thx, @adelwu_ ) If you were there and we didn't say hi then lets connect. Would love to know what you're up to.

non-designers who have never designed anything: "designers are cooked!" people who have worked in code, want to work in code, always will work in code: "future of design is code!" companies selling tokens: "move that button 4px with a prompt!" designers:

@eddiejiao_obj @cmmnknwledge @southpkcommons loved seeing what you're up to! keep it up!

Had a lot of fun showing some work from @cmmnknwledge at @southpkcommons last week

@soleio @firstofkind @vercel @framer @cursor_ai ❤️‍🔥

First of Kind: SEASON 2 begins Wed, Feb 11 @firstofkind is the story of software design told by its pioneers. The future belongs to designers who build. We return next week with 6 new episodes. Proudly sponsored by @vercel @framer @cursor_ai

@bnj @variantui Let me iiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnn

No design mode, just design. → @variantui

@wabi congrats on the launch! would love to get early access!

multiplayer: now live on wabi

@ty_kra_lab @wabi Tom Riddle's diary vibes

I think Wabi has a soul… The first AI that can write to you! Made with @wabi inspired by the movie “her”

“What a privilege to be tired from work you once begged the universe for. What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. What a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.”

@soggyburritowu @racheljychen @bruce_CQT @karissawongg so good!

cooking something up 𖡼.𖤣𖥧 @racheljychen @bruce_CQT @karissawongg

@bnj @variantui Would love to test + give feedback on it!

@variantui Would love to get more engineers and PMs in the beta

What do these smell like? One-shotted in @variantui, if you'd like to try we're bringing on a few more beta testers

@cobotapp i’m having trouble cancelling my subscription. Can you please help? Tks!

@IAmPascio Building an app that turns fitness into a collective sport. 4k monthly users and growing, would love to join :)

I am creating an elite group chat for: - Solo creators - Vibe coders - AI hustlers - Email marketers - App & no-code builders It will be tactically created, comment below for consideration.

10+ years late, but WeChat truly is magical. One app that becomes whatever you need to move through life. Just… better

@eddiejiao_obj @cmmnknwledge 🖐️

At @cmmnknwledge, we’ve been working on replacing the phone homescreen with a live document that changes throughout the day with the information you need. We’re looking for beta testers to try it out and help shape the this experience with us. Comment below for a testflight!