Neal

it’s the smallest habits. how you spend your mornings. how you talk to yourself. what you read. what you watch. who you share your energy with. who has access to you. that will change your life.

If you've not seen it before, the Whole Earth Index is incredible. The entire collection of Whole Earth Catalog issues, CoEvolution Quarterly, and others. Each page scanned and available in high resolution. A treasure trove. wholeearth.info

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

my competitive advantage is that i'm having fun

Gas Town, Clawdbot, Moltbook, Ralph, CLIs, terminals on your phone, AI operating systems, self-mutating code… The coolest thing AI has brought us is the feeling of endless possibility, just like the internet once did. In my career it’s served me to well to lean into the eccentricity and embrace the edges. Enjoy these times, try it all out, ship cool things.

@adamwathan ❤️

Overwhelmed by the support over the last 24 hours, not something I was looking for and expecting when I recorded that podcast on a whim. Thanks so much to everyone with words of encouragement, the new sponsors we've brought on, and people who've used their platforms to help in any way, I'm extremely touched ❤️ I feel like I have to make it clear though that we've still got a fine business (even if things are trending down), just not a great one anymore. Had to make a really crushing change and did everything I could to do it in the most generous and gracious way possible, but at the new size we're okay. We're comfortable, and things like our partner program are helping a lot to fund the framework more directly instead of selling products that are more at risk of disruption. We don't need anyone to rescue us, we've got lots of time and space to try new ideas and see what works 🙏🏻 I'm optimistic we'll figure out how to get things moving in the right direction, but even if we just have be a smaller business with less budget than we've had in the past that's okay too ❤️

Today, under the leadership of President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and Secretary Rollins, we announce the most significant shift in federal nutrition guidance in American history. For the first time, we're calling out the dangers of highly-processed foods and rebuilding a broken system from the ground up with gold-standard science and common sense. National Design Studio is proud to introduce realfood.gov. 🥦

a mistake that cost me 5 years: thinking preparation was progress. reading every book. taking every course. planning every detail. meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. you learn to swim by getting in the water, not by studying water.

generational hater, you have to respect the game

@alistaiir Bun add Alistair

excited to announce I've been Bun'd

you're trying to be 2 steps ahead of me and then you notice i'm 4 steps behind you. i wasn't going that way, bitch, keep up

@alexandr_wang @Meta @natfriedman Dream team

I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards superintelligence 🚀

ChatGPT knows a lot about your work, remembers your preferences, and could easily check in on things you care about. But it just sort of sits there, waiting, like a super polite guest who won't speak until spoken to. This is probably one of the most interesting design challenges right now. We have the most incredibly capable AI that could proactively help us, but it's not designed to be that way. We always have to make the first move. Imagine if ChatGPT could say "hey, remember that research project? Here's new data that changes everything" or "how are you feeling today? you mentioned you had a headache yesterday" This wouldn’t be a simple notification, it would be a moment of shared awareness, the AI noticing something, remembering the context, and choosing when to say something that feels timely and personal. The challenge doesn't seem technical, it's social. There's this whole emotional intelligence layer to it. When does helpful become annoying? How do you build something that can "read the room"? This goes way beyond traditional UX into something more like social design. Tools won't just need better interfaces, they'll need better instincts.

trying to make sense in real time

I'm feeling nervous about the potential glass UI trend that will be propelled forward after today. Not because of its novelty in iOS and the Apple ecosystem, but because it will be really hard to replicate and execute well. The shift to flat design actually created an era where "good" design became more accessible. The things that made design "great" were foundational elements: type, layout, hierarchy, color. This next era of design is going to critically rely on detailed shaders, lighting effects, and physics to execute well. Getting these wrong will feel horrendous, but when done well, will feel delightful and futuristic.

@encrypted Bruh

Which one of y'all did he cook 😭

Saw gf get oneshotted by a insta ad and I suddenly understand why Meta is worth two trillion dollars

what AI has done to em dashes can never be forgiven

@TimSweeneyEpic W

we back fam

My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions.