Nan Yu

@thenanyu · 42 posts tracked

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BuildersfromXJun 21

“Quality is irrational” is a great way to describe it. You have to have an irrational level of…

BuildersfromXJun 21

@Outlook @gmail No that’s not going to solve the problem to any significant degree. We are talk…

BuildersfromXJun 21

Multiplier effect. Econ 101. Learn about it. https://t.co/SJ0ikft4ZZ

BuildersfromXJun 20

Hey devs at @Outlook and @gmail you can point your agents at this tweet and they will fix it fo…

AI Assistants

BuildersfromXJun 20

Why isn’t the default for pasted text in email apps to take on the font treatment surrounding/p…

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BuildersfromXJun 18

It took us a lot of iterations to find the right pattern for this. Early on we were very naive…

AI Assistants Custom AI

BuildersfromXJun 18

it is making the right choice from a range of plausible options along many dimensions with limi…

BuildersfromXJun 17

like, pg talks about taste and wears cargo shorts, he's clearly not talking about taste in pants

Custom AI

BuildersfromXJun 17

"taste" is not just taste in aesthetics, the same way "design" is not just visual design. feels…

BuildersfromXJun 15

Whichever lobbyist made this happen is an absolute legend https://t.co/tiElSlwPMj

BuildersfromXJun 14

Imagine a piece of software so powerful it completely disables the operations of tech companies…

BuildersfromXJun 10

There's a thing they say about being a boat owner: the two best days of being a boat owner are…

BuildersfromXMay 29

pretty sure investors view it as an elon company https://t.co/NCIfilG6UT

BuildersfromXMay 18

We had an unbelievable tech team and talent overall. Many of them went onto awesome careers. Fo…

Coding

BuildersfromXMay 18

Something else that's fairly underrated is that the entire middle category got obliterated duri…

Custom AI

BuildersfromXMay 18

I haven’t worked at Everlane in almost 10 years but it’s a pretty sad day for the people that b…

Custom AI

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We are reinventing design to eng. handoff from first principles. https://t.co/tgiZwlrdAm

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The luxury of having excess compute https://t.co/GGPrHA54z7

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I’ve never heard of this insane app but the FindMy team needs to take notes. https://t.co/gbc0v…

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The entire West Coast of the United States from Santa Cruz on up. SF, Marin, Seattle, Portland……

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The problem with being on the very bleeding edge of adoption is you’re going to constantly be c…

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This is another way of saying the same thing, believe it or not https://t.co/mhISOTPiX4

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Think about how many “weather” apps and “dashboards” you saw on behance and dribbble in the pre…

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“The core design is about understanding, not output.” A design is an intention. Not an image or…

Images, Audio & Video

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When is Venmo gonna finally turn off that feature that lets me see when two of my mutual friend…

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If a press release comes out from each of the major labs, which one do you feel would have the…

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I’ve always felt this as well, but I couldn’t put it to words until I read this. It’s like aski…

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If people think you’re bad at PR then they tend to believe you’re not lying to them, which, if…

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It’s like how the crypto industry reinvented every existing financial industry concept, only th…

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And of course engineers https://t.co/qPRJcKZKUR

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Also product managers https://t.co/gG063RcMrZ

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That’s a good way to put it https://t.co/UTZQ5uL959

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it just makes sense https://t.co/OUQYrhld4w

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TASTE https://t.co/yqDynY1ji8

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Every time someone shits on Google or Meta they need to be reminded that those companies are un…

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Bill Simmons Tommy Gunn energy https://t.co/sC7SrYU2te

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And regular expressions. https://t.co/GRmYQvX7Ox

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skillshare would be such a sick domain to have now

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Many designers and eng. do well when you ask them to think through product questions in abstrac…

Coding

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The Flippening

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Shinigami Eyes https://t.co/EH0l0m8dHY

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