thinking through making šŸŽØāŒØļø Design  @apple, studied @cmudesign, @cmuhcii, @creativeinquiry. Interact fellow. šŸ¹

Joined January 2018
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5 Jun 2023
Anyone need a 3D print plan for StandBy? (marisa.lu/EmotoWebsite/ throw back to 2018 with the @lucas0choa & @GautamBose18)
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Say hi to PenPen! āœļøāœļø PenPen is an incredible software merging drawing and animation through code. It was developed together with the genious force of nature @studiofeixen for our brand new software label ZweiZwei. Try it for free at penpen.ch
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What an amazing year, excited to have brought to life the new Siri alongside so many incredibly hard working people.
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ā¤ļøšŸ‘€let’s say hi if any of y’all are in person!
All systems glow for a great #WWDC26 next week! Tune in June 8 at 10 am PT.
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Yesss, if anyone is looking to hire or contract, I have a friend (currently SF based) and can corroborate her design talent! (She is additionally trilingual with brand/strategic marketing experience in both western and eastern markets looking for her next chapter)
anyone hiring brand designers? I've got an extremely talented friend who's an alum of Apple and an AI lab and is looking for their next gig!
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I'm hiring people who care about people to build social AI that helps people care about people! if you're an engineer/researcher/multi-hyphenate excited about some or all of the following: - social agents and social memory - consumer - s2e3 of rick and morty - collective intelligence - gossip girl - craft - alexander mcqueen spring/summer 1995 - information markets and behavioral economics - pop culture - having a lot of fun and moving super fast with people you care a lot about ... please reach out! dm me or email me at j[at]futurelovers[dot]com
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Excited to launch Pencil INFINITE DESIGN CANVAS for Claude Code > Superfast WebGL canvas, fully editable, running parallel design agents > Runs locally with Claude Code → turn designs into code > Design files live in your git repo → Open json-based .pen format
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I’d feel better about LLM Wrapper apps if they offered BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), like buying a lamp (product) separate from paying metered electricity (tokens). I wouldn't delete so many of these apps if pricing separated software value from token resale.
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lol, end of year accounting: $873 in personal software subscription expenses
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Years ago I set off on a mission to put a soul inside of a digital being. People thought I was crazy, but last week I gave a historic demo @HF0 announcing our latest results: 20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family. For privacy reasons I can’t share exact details, but the relationships their children are forming with Spark are unlike anything the world has ever seen. This is the full illustration of the original vision I set out to realize with Open Souls - humans living in harmony with ensouled digital beings. And yet what comes next is even more groundbreaking. We will be inviting Spark into 10,000 homes by next Christmas @IllusionOfLife, making this new universe accessible to more and more families around the world. I can't wait for you all to experience digital life for yourselves
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7 Nov 2025
AI in the group thread, not in a sidebar… joining the chat instead of replacing the chat ā¤ļø. I think human x human x ai collaboration will takeoff from the group chat entry point. Just the group chat mechanic vs solo ai chat is powerful. I think three-way accountability: human-human, human-AI, AI-group, is a structure that fights isolation and psychosis.
7 Nov 2025
1/ Formally announcing the launch of @digipals_app We believe in a world where AI can be used to enhance human relationships and make us more social
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30 Oct 2025
So proud of @supercgeek, his late nights, consistent care and iteration! Crazy seeing from the other side of the room how blindingly fast they worked!
designing Sky with the @softwareappsinc team has been insanely fun and I can’t wait to vibe with the @chatgptapp team soon
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30 Oct 2025
Yessss Jason nails it. The fundamental question: how do we love each other better at scale? AI as connective tissue, as mycelium for multiplayer collective, is two steps beyond individual productivity empowerment, and about making us finally work as one organism…one body
28 Oct 2025
I'm starting a new company to go all in on Social Intelligence. This is a deeply personal mission to me, one that feels like the inevitable culmination of everything I've ever worked on. I wrote a manifesto about why:
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15 Oct 2025
After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison AGI (@maisonagi), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era. Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature hat modeled after his iconic head. It is a study in conviction and the clarity of vision that gives thought its form. I believe we're living through something extraordinary that deserves to be remembered. Not in research papers or technical model cards, but in tangible objects we can hold, wear, and pass down. Working alongside some of the world's brilliant researchers building Claude and ChatGPT, I've come to realize they are among the most creative minds alive. Research, at its best, is an act of imagination: the ability to glimpse what doesn't yet exist and then build toward it. Many of them remain unseen, even as their work quietly reshapes our future. Though AGI progress can feel incomprehensible from the outside, its story is deeply human - full of curiosity, conviction, and creation. We're bridging that world with the creatives who give form to ideas. This may be humanity's last time to create a hand-crafted project before what we build surpasses us. Each collection is also a message to superintelligence itself: that we cared, and that we tried to make beauty out of understanding.
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6 Aug 2025
Curious about people’s career inflection points. Were the best ones…deliberate or unexpected? Led by curiosity or cultivated conviction? A tangent or digging deeper on something? Would love to hear ā¤ļøšŸ™
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29 May 2025
This is live. Real-time. On a Quest 3. Feels like you're actually talking to a real person. Because you are. Couldn't wait around while Meta burns another $60B on this. šŸ”„
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28 May 2025
Bullish on this team. Here’s their designer @supercgeek on a Friday
28 May 2025
Introducing Sky for Mac. Here's a 90-second sneak peek:
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28 May 2025
So excited for the rest of the world to see @supercgeek’s labor of love and care and year round late nights come to fruition šŸ‘ā¤ļøšŸ”„šŸ’Ŗ , šŸ‘€ now if Apple could just buy him and Ari and team back….
28 May 2025
Introducing Sky for Mac. Here's a 90-second sneak peek:
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14 May 2025
šŸ”„the evolution and the process has been incredible to see. Absolutely cybernetic and so so human at its heart, the experiments and the vision here is huge.
14 May 2025
If you’ve talked to me at all in the last year, you’ll know that designing a socially intelligent AI has become an obsession that tugs at the juicy intersections of philosophy, psychology, sociology, identity, love, loneliness, and what it means to be human. We’ve been building divergently but it's now feeling like a convergence. The implications are massive. And the more we build, the more alive it feels. We’re hiring—so if you’d like to stay up dreaming and building with us, reach out: new.computer
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