also hard to overstate how much remote is over. the gravity well for top talent in SF is stronger than its ever been. shows up quickly when you start asking around for what people make in SF vs NYC

Update: have made a dozen intros from this tweet. Some loose takeaways on the market right now: 1. top talent being re-priced as we speak: staff+ TC up 30-50% from 2y ago 2. Design engineers at big premium. Engineers who design even higher. 3. SF in person premium so back

i feel like the landing page design meta has moved from stripe-core to linear-core to now vercel-core. wonder whose visual design language will be cribbed next!

one easy way to identity boomers on the internet is that they will start tweets with "boom" like "boom we just launched..." it's a bit like how pikachu talks like "pika pika". it's kinda cute really!

📢PSA if we're mutuals and you're a designer low key open to a new thing – I'd like to be your agent! 1. I'm discreet. Promise no doxx 2. I only show you top teams i'd work with myself 3. I'll negotiate the shit out of your offer to get you what you deserve slide into my DMs!

back at Coinbase, we had the idea of building design linter that would block merge lest there was proper usage of of The Design System ™ we never did it cause it was giving Police-State 💀 a more realistic version of this is Claude code auto-suggesting correct usage

Printed another menu for a dinner hosted by @dcposch. Dirty with oil stains because food was delicious af. We've evolved to two color menus!

One of the most interesting aspects of vibecoding is the gacha-like RNG component. It expectedly turned programming into a game Give it your best shot, cross your fingers, hope for the best. If it doesn't work, insert another quarter and try again.

Talent up to IC5 is priced at market mid point. Everything else beyond that is OTC. Corollary of this is that most everyone past senior is under-negotiating because they’re used to taking market salary vs making their own market

Struck me today that @rtwlz is like our own SF anthpo