Nev Flynn

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I think it's a good signal. I think it really aligns closely with that enthusiastic piece. You don't find people that are building serious things on the side that aren't really passionate or enthusiastic about like building or designing or engineering.

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the early ones were were quite bad and then like as we get closer to present day, they get better. So, doesn't really make sense for me to have a portfolio that includes all those things. Why not why not show the one or two recent ones where I've developed as a designer and I've honed the craft.

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would love to see something that feels like an entirely unique thought and ideally really well executed and then personalitywise folks that are really really passionate, enthusiastic about what they do.

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I think that maybe the traits of that person like you say are needs to be a real systems thinker for sure and then ideally a pretty self-sufficient design engineer where the the design chops are as strong as the engineering chops

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and that's pain if you're a designer. I think designing in Google Slides is the most humbling thing that can possibly happen to a designer.

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it's really hard and it's also unfair to say hey everybody we're all going to use this new product and that's all we're going to use from now on. Um you kind of need to support both.

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deck sounds boring. I think it's one of the biggest unsolved problems in like scaling tech companies and big tech companies. They're everywhere. I think the software we use to put them together is is old.

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if you know that we're not going to put the brakes on people building without designers then can we get that quality bar to like 90%. That's still like a success in in my eyes.

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we are probably running through a set of subconscious rules in our head and like landing on something that we think is appropriate. So I think it's possible to some extent to codify this and I think that's worth reaching for

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So what I think it does is it doesn't replace the designer or make designers less valuable. It allows everybody to kind of move faster but at the same time maintaining like really high standards

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codifying your own product design principles in the form of like an agent MD file when to use this component instead of this component guard rails against certain UI patterns.

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agent optimization lands that's just like one more variant to kind of get wrong. So I think if you can apply that principle to the whole system, you can make it much more tightly scoped which is which is a good thing.

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I think as a small team, we definitely don't want to be the people that stand in the way of progress there, but rather find ways to support them

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You need to do that and have it work in order for people to understand that it's worth doing. So kind of showing not not telling

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I think we oftentimes see really early stage companies that do incredible expressive artful things and they kind of grow into like bigger enterprise companies and they maybe lose a little bit of that but I never really want us to lose any of that and I think if you can then then you should

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I often say like if you work with him in like a kind of a creative director WebGL person pairing there's like zero technical or creative limit to what can be done.

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people maybe think we should hire another generalist, you know, because it's obvious, but I think worth lobbying and worth making the case for these types of people because you can do just you can do marvelous things.