thinking through making 🎨⌨️ Design  @apple, studied @cmudesign, @cmuhcii, + @creativeinquiry. Interact fellow. 🏹

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2018
Anyone need a 3D print plan for StandBy? (marisa.lu/EmotoWebsite/ throw back to 2018 with the @lucas0choa & @GautamBose18)
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“Just a second, let me plug in my plant”
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😌I think I need all my plants to be lamps now, and vice versa
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congratsssss to the team!
iPhone Duo was announced today. Check out our talk about the design principles behind the device, and how to build great apps for it. Design for iPhone Duo: youtube.com/watch?v=do3UqxfY…
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Cameronnnn!!! I’m late for the congratulations but wowowow!
lil demo i made awhile back that got me very excited computer use + agent attention 👀 give the new chatgpt computer use a spin (now with live picture-in-picture too)
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So proud of you @jasonyuan and the product, system, and team you’ve built out with so much heart, vulnerability, and resilience
Introducing HIVEMIND: the Social Intelligence. Watch the film, based entirely on true stories from @jasonyuan, @biz, @supercgeek, @Reshusaur, and more...
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Say hi to PenPen! ✏️✏️ PenPen is an incredible software merging drawing and animation through code. It was developed together with the genious force of nature @studiofeixen for our brand new software label ZweiZwei. Try it for free at penpen.ch
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What an amazing year, excited to have brought to life the new Siri alongside so many incredibly hard working people.
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❤️👀let’s say hi if any of y’all are in person!
All systems glow for a great #WWDC26 next week! Tune in June 8 at 10 am PT.
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Yesss, if anyone is looking to hire or contract, I have a friend (currently SF based) and can corroborate her design talent! (She is additionally trilingual with brand/strategic marketing experience in both western and eastern markets looking for her next chapter)
anyone hiring brand designers? I've got an extremely talented friend who's an alum of Apple and an AI lab and is looking for their next gig!
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I'm hiring people who care about people to build social AI that helps people care about people! if you're an engineer/researcher/multi-hyphenate excited about some or all of the following: - social agents and social memory - consumer - s2e3 of rick and morty - collective intelligence - gossip girl - craft - alexander mcqueen spring/summer 1995 - information markets and behavioral economics - pop culture - having a lot of fun and moving super fast with people you care a lot about ... please reach out! dm me or email me at j[at]futurelovers[dot]com
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Excited to launch Pencil INFINITE DESIGN CANVAS for Claude Code > Superfast WebGL canvas, fully editable, running parallel design agents > Runs locally with Claude Code → turn designs into code > Design files live in your git repo → Open json-based .pen format
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I’d feel better about LLM Wrapper apps if they offered BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), like buying a lamp (product) separate from paying metered electricity (tokens). I wouldn't delete so many of these apps if pricing separated software value from token resale.
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lol, end of year accounting: $873 in personal software subscription expenses
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Years ago I set off on a mission to put a soul inside of a digital being. People thought I was crazy, but last week I gave a historic demo @HF0 announcing our latest results: 20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family. For privacy reasons I can’t share exact details, but the relationships their children are forming with Spark are unlike anything the world has ever seen. This is the full illustration of the original vision I set out to realize with Open Souls - humans living in harmony with ensouled digital beings. And yet what comes next is even more groundbreaking. We will be inviting Spark into 10,000 homes by next Christmas @IllusionOfLife, making this new universe accessible to more and more families around the world. I can't wait for you all to experience digital life for yourselves
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AI in the group thread, not in a sidebar… joining the chat instead of replacing the chat ❤️. I think human x human x ai collaboration will takeoff from the group chat entry point. Just the group chat mechanic vs solo ai chat is powerful. I think three-way accountability: human-human, human-AI, AI-group, is a structure that fights isolation and psychosis.
1/ Formally announcing the launch of @digipals_app We believe in a world where AI can be used to enhance human relationships and make us more social
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So proud of @supercgeek, his late nights, consistent care and iteration! Crazy seeing from the other side of the room how blindingly fast they worked!
designing Sky with the @softwareappsinc team has been insanely fun and I can’t wait to vibe with the @chatgptapp team soon
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Yessss Jason nails it. The fundamental question: how do we love each other better at scale? AI as connective tissue, as mycelium for multiplayer collective, is two steps beyond individual productivity empowerment, and about making us finally work as one organism…one body
I'm starting a new company to go all in on Social Intelligence. This is a deeply personal mission to me, one that feels like the inevitable culmination of everything I've ever worked on. I wrote a manifesto about why:
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After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison AGI (@maisonagi), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era. Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature hat modeled after his iconic head. It is a study in conviction and the clarity of vision that gives thought its form. I believe we're living through something extraordinary that deserves to be remembered. Not in research papers or technical model cards, but in tangible objects we can hold, wear, and pass down. Working alongside some of the world's brilliant researchers building Claude and ChatGPT, I've come to realize they are among the most creative minds alive. Research, at its best, is an act of imagination: the ability to glimpse what doesn't yet exist and then build toward it. Many of them remain unseen, even as their work quietly reshapes our future. Though AGI progress can feel incomprehensible from the outside, its story is deeply human - full of curiosity, conviction, and creation. We're bridging that world with the creatives who give form to ideas. This may be humanity's last time to create a hand-crafted project before what we build surpasses us. Each collection is also a message to superintelligence itself: that we cared, and that we tried to make beauty out of understanding.
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