Jacob 🇪🇺

@gndclouds excited to give it a whirl!

@jheftmann how cool, loved small victories! Would be great to get your thoughts! Happy to hope on a call and chat about it too. tiny.garden/login

Looking for 30 people to test tiny.garden. If you ever used small victories back in the day this is very much similar but instead of dropbox for now its all based on are.na channels.

@mikeswartz_ 😅

@jheftmann Waymo but for death

I thought we all knew this

Yesterday we started a Works But Makes Noises design group chat on @OutputApp! What's so cool is @allanyu_ & @jcb are evolving the platform daily; away from a Slack-like space, towards a fun group chat app. Flying with them as they build the plane around us! – Come join! ⬇️🔗

I loved this convo with longtime friend @allanyu_. I related 100% to the feeling of being young and not being able to understand (/listen well enough) what a team or organization needed from me. Age/experience/wisdom is real!

Got to chat with @dmcgco and @jheftmann about how I know what being a good employee means, and how we're integrating ᴬᴵ

@blancpain @dmcgco @michael_groth_ honestly I'm just terrified of saws

@dmcgco @michael_groth_ @jheftmann Hater’s gonna hate

✨ New Works But Makes Noises Episode [009] In this episode me & @jheftmann get nerdy on how agentic coding is flipping our design process. Robot vacuum fleets, Claude code experiments, closed loop workflows, & the death of wireframes. It's got it all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wor…

fun talking to my bud @dmcgco about craft without the extra noise around this topic!

This one was a lot of fun – recorded straight from Downtown Brooklyn right before IRL co-host hangs upstate. Also, stickers!!

@kevintwohy @blancpain nice!!! please share with us when it's ready

👏🙏 @jheftmann @blancpain

Niche tweet but there were a few typefaces I wanted to use in games for Board but the licenses are just too restrictive/risky to bundle into a game console. @grillitype's licensing is really sensible/straightforward/clear and now one of their typefaces gets to be in a new game!

@emmettshine yew thank you brother! lol never thought I'd be a podcast guy

@jheftmann love ya podcast design lord! got the new one queue'd up!

@dmcgco 🙏

Beautiful! ✨

A canon. A typeface. An alphabet. GT Canon is out NOW. Neither historical nor futuristic, GT Canon marks a defining chapter in our search for a universal serif.

✨ New WBMN Episode just dropped! The 52" monitor, home-cooked software, claude code, craft & imperfection, authorship & taste, designing without scale, having an independent design practice, freelancing vs studios, building a career on your own terms podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wor…

We added a new feature on Works But Makes Noises that I’m too excited about… If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts app with the latest iOS, the cover art now updates dynamically in real time as you listen to the show to display the design we’re currently talking about! 🔗⬇️

@eliofmendes @dmcgco great suggestion. seems like they've definitely taken a very deliberate approach. if you know anyone in design @claudeai would love an intro!

@dmcgco Claude brand / mkt team!

Who should we have on as our first guest in the new year? Who do you want to get to know?

@emmettshine @ginlane 🙌

Today we rolled out the Little Plains Equity Program giving every full-time team member and contractor a share of our upside. I know the work we do creates real value, I was fortunate enough to be part of over a half dozen successful exits via @ginlane. From the start I wanted @littleplainsxo to share that same upside with our best clients and partners. We almost exclusively work in the early stage startup sector, and this is why you play the game. It's human nature to go the extra mile when you have skin in the game; when you feel like you are really a part of the ride. When you know the harder you push, the better the outcome can be. It's not just about compensation (which is important), even a small bit of ownership can create real pride because you actually own a part of what you’re making. For our early stage founders and teams we work with, we want them to feel we’re partners who will push harder and stick around longer than just transactional service providers. We care more than just getting a check, and we hope that shows. This took real work to put together! The system we all work in is not really designed to distribute ownership like this in a simple way. It took a half year of creative research, legal back and forth, and scenario testing. Here is a summary of where we landed: For full-time team members - Profit Interests that give each member a percentage of all Little Plains total equity upside - Monthly vesting over four years with no cliff - Once vested, it is theirs permanently and pays out on any future exits from projects started while they were here - (FT team members also get quarterly & annual profit sharing and guaranteed annual pay raises) For contractors: - Phantom Equity that gives them a proportional share of the contractor pool for any equity project they contribute to - Their share is based on the fees they earned relative to total contractor fees - It vests immediately once their work is done and paid Thank you to @alexleiphart for so diligently helping me to architect this, and bringing it to life. Thank you to the incredible team members, and contractors who work with us. With you none of this would be possible. Lastly, here is a one pager overview if anyone with a studio or creative agency is curious about working on something similar, happy to share more: docs.google.com/document/d/1_e…

@lukasrendl @dmcgco 🤙 thank you!

@dmcgco @jheftmann Congrats! I’m diving in asap.

✨ I'm excited to finally share a fun project me and @jheftmann have been working on together... We started a podcast; Works But Makes Noises. It’s a fun, informal take on design and creative work, made to bring a little lightness back into the discourse. Now Live! 🔗⬇️