design @instagram. previously Apartment List, Trek. chris@chrisaalid.com

Joined May 2009
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Calm has one of their lawyers reading their terms of service as a sleep story
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lots of people worried about shipping faster. not enough people worried about shipping something people want.
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Absurdly good
There’s a nice little surprise in the Preview app. #ios27
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Becoming incredibly poke-pilled @interaction
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I think Opendoor could be a $500 stock in the next 5-7 years. OPEN trades at $4.28 today. Wall Street targets are $2-$20. The architectural-intersection case nobody is pricing: the three-layer tokenization build Kaz Nejatian walked me through at OPEN's Toronto offices, the British Columbia leasehold proof-of-concept that already works at provincial scale, and the four prerequisites — asset-class control, pricing-data depth, vertical integration, operator-class with crypto-native architecture experience — that converge in exactly one publicly-traded operator. This is the applied case study for the framework piece I published earlier today on tokenization as the fourth capital-markets infrastructure transition. The math: at conservative probability calibrations, the asymmetric expected value of the position at $4.28 is 25-35x return from current price, against bounded downside at -100%. Same structural pattern as Carvana from single-digits to $487 (~140x), Shopify from $20 IPO to $1,700 (~85x), Tesla from single-digits to $400 (~200x), NVIDIA from single-digits to $150 (~30x) — what stocks capturing architectural transitions in their industries actually look like. Why I Think OPEN Could Be A $500 Stock [Long OPEN] open.substack.com/pub/eventh…
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very un-apple to just…let people customize the liquid glass refraction or whatever. strange! i say that as someone lukewarm on the current glass.
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Chris Aalid retweeted
People always complain about design not having a seat at the table when the reality is that you just have the drag the chair over
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Codex desktop app is kinda…great?
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Chris Aalid retweeted
NBC - 1972 (unused) - USA
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The Photoshop days were so rough looking back. But also strangely wonderful. We used keynote with magic move to prototype. Kind of insane but it did the job.
May 22
Designers - how long have you been using Figma, and what was your first design tool? Btw, anyone remember Adobe XD?
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I don’t think this is a good thing.
May 22
Look, if you don’t like the ending of any movie, you can soon just export the file, put it into one of the increasingly high quality open weights video models, and do whatever remix you like. We aren’t all the way there, but we’ll be there soon. Prompts will promptly disrupt Hollywood.
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everyone is kinda just jamming idk
Engineers don't write code. PMs are shipping to production. The design process is dead (there's no time). Marketing can ship their own campaigns. SDRs are being replaced by AI. Everyone's a data scientist now. What a time to be alive.
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Instagram has launched a new app called 'Instants' This new standalone app allows for sharing unedited photos in the moment that expire after viewing
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Just shipped a whole new way to share on Instagram along with a standalone app. Proud to have worked on this one with a crew of insanely talented designers 🫶 about.instagram.com/blog/ann…
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Tokyo recs please 🗼
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IG NYC this week 🗽
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NYC this week ✨
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Chris Aalid retweeted
you're one brian eno album and cortado away from your next major design breakthrough
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Boris is insanely talented (briefly crossed paths at IG). Big win for @cursor_ai
1 Jul 2025
.@cursor_ai hired the lead engineer product manager on claude code (the only anthropic product i use right now)
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25 Jun 2025
btwww, you can now customize your Notes 🧑‍🎨 just type what you want to say, choose a color that fits your mood and pick your fav emoji ⭐
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