“Don’t even try to solve the problem” 😒

Great UX and design seems like a bit of a lost art in 2024 for new builders and founders. What can we do to fix this?

Startup vs Big Company Dynamics

Startup
• Observation: Users want a new feature.
• Designer (60 min later): Here are some figma prototypes.
• Engineer: We can ship this by the end of the week.

Big Company:
• Observation: Let’s discuss our observations when Suzy’s back;

“We launched this in about an hour. We didn’t have any drivers. We didn’t have any algorithms. We didn’t spend six months building a fancy dispatch system… At the beginning, it’s all about testing your idea, trying to get this thing off the ground, and figuring out whether this

The r/Teachers subreddit is like this every single day

Stanford's Jo Boaler, who has played a lead role in destroying math education in California, especially for disadvantaged students, is merely following the norms of her field, Education, in overstating the value of weak/worthless studies and basing her prescriptions upon them.⬇️

Just spitballing here, but perhaps decades of criticism from a diverse range of people, for a diverse range of reasons, indicates a problem with the work itself, not some sort of witch hunt.

thethreo.com/the-silencing-…

Shut down the open air drug markets in San Francisco

ngl, 110 IQ vibes-based seed/pre-seed investors probably shouldn't be allowed to raise funds larger than $10M

Is this 'extremely hardcore?'

Typical of San Francisco to believe there’s no situation so mismanaged that it can’t be fixed by taxing someone else.

This was such a poorly done video I think I am even more supportive of the TikTok ban than I was before.

We re-took the SF Democratic Party.

This is what that looks like.

I sat down with David Lieb to hear more about his story so far — building a wildly popular iOS app, pivoting it into what would become Google Photos, beating cancer, and his return to YC as our newest Group Partner.

Check it out here!
ycombinator.com/blog/david-lie…

Here's a thread of my favorite quotes from Jensen Huang's interview with Patrick Collison at Stripe sessions today. There was so much wisdom packed into 1 hour!

BTW fun fact: Jensen's first job was cleaning toilets.

🧵Nuggets of wisdom from Jensen Huang:

I love Dan Primack (other than his poor choice of sports franchises to support) and think he's got some important points here, but wanted to add some commentary:

I am beyond grateful for everyone who attended the Recovery Summit today in San Francisco. Over 200 people came to hear Benny Lee and Kevin Sabet speak. We had elected officials in the room, including Mayor London Breed.

The The Wall Street Journal captures what we have been seeing and hearing on the campaign trail - our Chinese American community has clearly communicated their exhaustion with being categorized as a monolith that votes for “a Chinese name.” They are tired of extremist far left ideologues who