THE AMBITIOUS: MANIFESTO Ambition is our right. Yet society starves ambition, and most people mistake it for a lack of potential. As children, we imagine going to space, saving the planet, changing the world. Somewhere between school and work, our dreams meet an insidious, invisible wall. "Be realistic." "That's too risky." So we learn to do what's expected because wanting more feels unreasonable. This is what we're fighting against: the belief that your past has power over the ceiling on your future. That the dreams worth pursuing belong to people with the right degree, the right connections, the right story. But nobody should have to earn permission to imagine a different life. Changing careers. Building something of your own. We are on the side of the person still willing to try. We believe people bring out the best in people. The Wright brothers built flight together. Apollo put mankind on the moon through a national effort. Yet we leave so many people to face their own ambitions alone. The world has plenty of pessimists. Now we need someone willing to ask: what if it works? Think of the moment your life changed. There was a person in it. Someone who said your name in a room you weren't in. Someone who took you seriously before anyone had a reason to. Everyone deserves a moment like that. Most people never get one. Changing that is the work. That's the world we're fighting for. So we built @ADPList to expand the world's ambition. Here's to expanding ambition. Here’s to the people who see possibility in others. Here’s to you. Majulah!

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I've designed for 10 startups that grew >100M users. So I turned that playbook into a design engineer bot. Here's how @bot uses it to ship 100 product experiments a week (template ⬇️):

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I shipped 100 design experiments with @grok @bot in a week. as a solo founder with a small team, the best move is to go crazy and ship iterations at the pace of 1,000 employees. very wild, just two weeks ago... I built Mono Lisa on @grok @bot - a daily design partner that solves real, urgent problems through design while we sleep. see how @bot learns and designs from start to finish, including: • reads your data insights • reasons from first principles to solve • design 3x iterations + tradeoffs • you gate before eng • continued improvement daily fully integrated it with @paper, @Amplitude_HQ, and @linear for the full workflow. mind-blowing, this is how you get 100x experiments without hiring a design ops team. in one year, the one-person company will win by having a tighter loop from real-time data → decision → design → eng... speed to iteration! download bot template: x.ai/bot/1SnvqJd1RMwYsWdwh8k… Mono Lisa is the future blueprint. watch full demo here:

Design is the only profession where everyone in the company thinks they are a designer. It seems these days, everyone has a take of what good taste/design is. On the contrary, nobody ever tells an engineer the backend feels off. I think it's hard to blame anyone. Design is the only work people can see. You don't need to read code to have opinions on design, so it makes you feel like you have taste. Sadly, at most companies, craft don't win, seniority usually does; when the argument is just preference. What I've observed to be true is a clear "why" and the fundamentals ie. what problem it solves, the tradeoffs of why it this > that. Yesterday, at @grok @bot galaxy and it clicked for me. Good tools don't replace taste. They accelerate it I'll be sharing a Grokbot for Designers guide (+ template) for those who still need to ship something beautiful. Ironically, most people are paid to have opinions. Designers paid to reason. May the best ideas win.

I’ve been reflecting on our mission to democratize mentorship for everyone—and AI has only reminded us that real human connection is irreplaceable. I’m proud to see the glowing reviews from our global community. ❤️ Thank you for being part of this mission!

They said AI would replace design, instead it proved how much design matters.

Designers who ship are now the most valuable hires in tech.