twitter noob. engineer and designer. prev. founding team @ https://xitter.gq/t.co/lEjvdyidmt, @Facebook, @JoinAtomic, @Penn
Joined August 2016
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The point at which you graduate from college is when you're done with freshman year of life.
1/4 (college years) ≈ 21/80 (avg. lifespan)
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What if we could manipulate UI at the speed of thought?
Built this voice coffee ordering system with @typesafeai Jev. The drink and any updates show up while I’m still mid-sentence, ~200 ms from word to screen.
Feels pretty magical!
I gave my agents a way to create Live Activities on my iPhone lock screen.
Their notifications were becoming noise, so I built Agent Activity to surface what matters, updating in real time
Some of my fav use cases with @chatgpt, @muse, codex:
- Birthdays of people I’m close with (from gcal + fb + linkedin), first thing in the morning
- What each agent is working on and what’s done
- Closest citibike dock with ebikes + train times before I head home
- Critical updates like root cause found for a bug, with a button to jump straight to the logs
Install the iOS app + connect the MCP in your agent(s). Your agents compose the layout and update a shared live activity as they work, or through recurring scheduled tasks.
Comment/DM if you want to try on testflight!
Grateful to be part of the inaugural @a16z Design Engineer fellows.
Amazing crew 🙌
Announcing the inaugural class of @a16z Design Engineer fellows!
73 design leaders selected out of thousands of apps from talented people around the world.
Many fellows wrote the original playbooks in product design like - @joshto from Meta, @iansilber from OpenAI (prev. Instagram), and Yuliya Gorlovetsky from Stripe.
Some are currently building category defining products, zero to scale - like @diegozaks from Ramp, @ryolu_ from Cursor and Nicolas Garro at Vercel.
Others are design leaders at tech powerhouses like - @ammaar at Google, @maheen_sohail at Meta, and @davidhoang at Atlassian.
+64 more...
See the full cohort and the sign-up form to stay in touch on the next DEF fellowship below!
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I built an agent that makes me justify my distractions.
- Texts me when I open distracting apps
- Gets firmer the more I use them, personalized to my motivations
- Blocks apps when I hit the limit
- Unblock requests only get approved if I can explain how they align with my goals
Kunal Abichandani retweeted
Introducing Bunny - world's first curiosity device for kids
It’s screenfree..it’s portable..
We raised $1M from @spc to reimagine how kids thrive in the age of AI, safely.
Comment 'Bunny'. Our nephew will pick 50 families that get it for free this holiday season…
Kunal Abichandani retweeted
Watching these signs slowly evolve at my grocery store — some employee is learning UI design in real time
ALT A sign that says “this cart will not go down the escalator. This cart will only go down the elevator.”
ALT A sign that says “Cart will not go down the escalator. Use elevator.” There is a yellow and green highlighter.
ALT The third sign reads “elevator only “
I sometimes like to think of tech (hardware) purchases in the form of subscriptions.
For example, assuming you use it for 4 years, the new base MacBook Pro comes out to (1999/4) ~$500 per year. While at first it can seem like a lot to spend $400 on bumping RAM from 16 to 32gb –
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We all want time to move slower so we can be more present, yet at the same time we want to do what we love, which inherently makes us get lost in the moment and lose track of time.
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Sport is a platform for business.
It's kind of crazy how a game someone invented became a whole industry that not only supports itself, but also hundreds of thousands of smaller sub-industries/businesses.
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Kunal Abichandani retweeted
Remember Zoom happy hours (aka drinking alone while watching others drink alone)? Yeah they sucked. Virtual events don't have to tho. Our newco Boombox helps companies book awesome team-building, sales, recruiting events as work continues to be distributed fastcompany.com/90639678/how…
Kunal Abichandani retweeted
the best kind of "entertainment" is the kind that ignites something in you. I think this is a good metric for determining the quality of entertainment--is it causing you to keep mindlessly consuming or does its consumption inspire you to create something for yourself?
The other day I woke to my neighbor playing music so loud I could hear it through the wall. BUT there was one song so good I had to shazam it and now I've been listening to it on loop for the past 2 days...
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Not sure what I was expecting but when I asked my google home to turn my smart lights "black" it just turned them off and I thought that was very funny
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Scrolling is def a muscle memory. After deleting fb, reddit, insta, twitter from my phone, i just end up opening and scrolling through the google news app for no reason at all...
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