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Bertie retweeted
Spent two weeks building a new portfolio: a 3D room on a spaceship.
Sit at my desk, use my computer, browse my work. There's a robot called Milo, a gravity switch, and a button you shouldn't press.
Blender, Figma, three.js, ChatGPT, Claude.
urquhart.design (laptop)
Bertie retweeted
Some say entry level/new grad devs are cooked and will be replaced with AI
We're betting they're the future + opening some in-person roles in NYC
You'll be paired with a mentor and immeditely start upgrading the global financial system
Big opportunity
jobs.ashbyhq.com/uniswap/fb4…
Bertie retweeted
I am looking for my next role.
Over the past few months, I've helped companies hire CMOs, built out content plans, developed GTM strategies, and consulted on their marketing needs – all while competing in my first Hyrox competition, doing my first unassisted pull-up, traveling, and reading more than ever.
I’ve been marketing my whole life. I grew up in my dad's ad agency, interned at a winery before I could drink, and built my Instagram to 170K followers in my early 20s before growing accounts for 30+ companies. As Polkadot's first communications manager, I grew their X following to nearly 1.5 million, and stayed on nearly seven years, leading community, social, and ecosystem marketing. I secured Avalanche their first feature in the NYTs Dealbook newsletter. I've marketed six blockchain protocols (4 infrastructure, 2 DeFi), driven GTM for 3 successful 8- and 9-figure token sales while working with the SEC, and owned end-to-end marketing for 3 mainnet launches.
And as a bonus, whoever gets me, gets Duke as a brand ambassador too.
Bertie retweeted
Introducing Conduit Enterprise Solutions
The leading full-stack infrastructure platform and expertise to support enterprise demand.
Built for organizations bringing financial workloads onchain.
From chain solution design, deployment, to ongoing managed operations, Conduit is the partner at every stage of your onchain roadmap.
Bertie retweeted
for designers in my network impacted by today's Coinbase layoffs:
we are hiring our first product designer & brand designer at Parallel, DM me.
i've joined @p0 as head of design.
the next decade of software is being written for machines to read. the web wasn't built for that. Parallel is rethinking the web's most foundational primitive, search, for its second user.
we're growing the team. hiring our first product designer, brand designer, and design eng to define what this looks like. think the elegance of a well-formed schema, the lineage of the early web.
if that's you, DM me your best work.
Bertie retweeted
Introducing @runneragent, the knowledge work agent that works across all your apps to get real work done
It's simply the best way to stay on top of messages, project management, user feedback, and much more
Runner has become a daily driver for me and I think you'll like it too
"One of the saddest things in a big company is that there’s a tendency to value what you can measure... you know, price, weight, speed, but not all that you can measure is valuable, and not all that is valuable is measurable. The most important decisions we make here are generally made in the absence of data. One of the reasons I love Benedetto [Vigna, Ferrari CEO] is that he’s a brilliant engineer who pays attention to the things you can’t measure."
"A large touchscreen doesn't work in a car": Sir Jony Ive on designing the Ferrari Luce's interior ➡️ top-gear.visitlink.me/yTpZer
Bertie retweeted
Things like describing an incredibly well-compensated white collar job with ludicrous perks as “the trenches” is one of the reasons why the masses will cheer resoundingly when the monster software engineers create finally eats them whole
I just left @xai
It was not an easy decision. The past three months were an absolute blast - I've been in many trenches in my life and can say this was by far one of the most intense warzones.
I love fighting. Especially being in the trenches with my friends, working on problems that will actually advance humanity.
But the current environment wasn't serving my growth. And that's a really hard thing to admit - I've always looked up to Elon, and I genuinely believe xAI will win. I still do.
One thing I'll say: don't stay somewhere just because of the name. If you're unhappy, and you know you can't grow 100x where you are - it's the right call to leave.
What's next? Get some sleep back. Then find the next trench worth fighting in.
I'll always be meeting exceptional people - that was never because of a recruiting title. I just love finding smart people and helping however I can. Many more side quests to come!!!
Flag thoroughly planted
Conduit plants a flag on the road to one gigagas
blockworks.co/news/conduit-g…
Bertie retweeted
We’re hiring at Conduit!
> Senior Software Engineer [Rollups]
> Blockchain Engineer [EVM Client]
> Reth Engineer
> Account Executive [Institutional]
> Senior Technical Support Engineer
> Solutions Engineer
Apply now: jobs.ashbyhq.com/Conduit
Being able to identify a good answer is taste
I hate to break this to everyone, but you probably don't have better taste than the AI.
If you ask any leading model about a product decision with guidance: "don't tell me to ask users; just reason through it yourself." It will give you a better answer than 90% of PMs.
A lot of people are afraid to do this because they suspect that the answers will actually be very good. There are plenty of other distinctly human things that we can contribute, but "having better taste" isn't one of them.