Evan Spiegel: recommendation

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…I had Jenny Wen on the podcast. She was head of design for Claude and Cowork and she was like a director at Figma. And then she came to Anthropic and moved to just IC design again. And I asked her what's the hardest part of that move? And she said it's just all the crits that she has to deal with now are just so much criticism and constant feedback. And she forgot about that part of it. So it's interesting that's such a core part of the way you, like the thing that people have to learn essentially and get good at. Well, and one of the things that's so important about our design team and our design culture, one of the things that we try to do is there is no gate to showing me work every week. So there is no ... Any idea, it doesn't matter how good people think it is, how bad it is, you can bring it to that design meeting, get it on the list and share your work and your idea. And that is so important because I think to your point, sometimes people over-rely on this critique process and great ideas get filtered out. And so I think creating this culture on the team where you can bring anything to the design meeting, there's no filtering process, I think is just so important. You mentioned AI, how designers are shipping code. I have a friend who works at a big tech company and you just said all the design team, they're required to ship like, I don't know, 10 PRs a month or something like that or a quarter, which is such a new world. I guess one is just like, how do you think about designers shipping code? Is that like just do it if you can or is there a requirement sort of thing? And broadly, I'm just curious how AI is changing the way your team operates. What are just a few things that have been impactful in how your team operates that are AI driven?…

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