design is distribution. product leadership @zoom: Zoom Apps, RTMS, Marketplace. occasional film photographer. design × AI × growth ex @linkedin @pinterest
San Francisco
Joined November 2006
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I’m working on a new AI skill.
It’s called /fuck-cancer
Goal is to help patients and their family navigate this whole process and stay informed.
What should I include in it?
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If I could start over I'd follow curiosity instead of chasing prestige. I gradually learned to do this, but only after being fooled multiple times.
The best product design story I’ve read.
Taste may seem like magic but it isn’t just 1% inspiration. It’s 99% relentless craft.
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If I ran anthropic’s marketing … I would just buy a sports team and let Claude 100% run it … from draft to contract negotiations to on field decisions. AGI is when it wins the championship.
It arrived, and feels incredibly retro-futuristic.
The more I play with this keyboard, the more I want to keep using it.
The knob, glowing keys, voice button, and the raw exposed PCB like design for some of the lights are perfect.
@OpenAI @work_louder you nailed it!
My system prompt includes instructions for removing em dashes for this reason. It’s painful especially when you’d memorized the keyboard shortcuts for em dashes and you’re a rebel against the point of view in the “Elements of Typographic Style”.
I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop
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Painful watching a PM tool you loved degrade: bugs, slowness, flaky integrations, and unreliable agentic access.
PM tooling that isn’t fast and machine legible is going to feel ancient soon. Huge opening in this category.
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I went back and looked at my old emails with Om, and it reminded me how nice he was. He was a genuinely good guy.
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The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.
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The OGs of search. The men who made it all happen. Stanford 1990s. In the thick of it all, my late husband Prof Rajeev Motwani, his students Larry & Sergey, Svetlozar, Prof David Cheritan, Prof Hector Garcia…Heady times. They knew the impact their math was going to have. They knew they wanted to bring all the information of the world into the hands of each human being. For free. And make the world a better place. When I look back at all of this, I feel fortunate and humbled that someone as non-technical as me, got a chance to interact with these great minds and see them work together, dream together and pull off miracles. My only contribution to this brilliant soup, was me chanting the Gayatri mantra driving from our apartment to Rajeev’s office on the day his tenure decision was announced at Stanford(around 1992-93). He was unsure he would get tenure. I never understood why. Anyways, I walk into his office chanting and bingo the email arrives, the second i walk in, saying that he had got tenure. In his typical generous fashion Rajeev attributed great luck to my walking into his office… maybe he was right. 🤔
