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Lucy Chen

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Curiosity chaser. Sharing 💭 on product, behavior change, design equity & AI. Opinions are my own. 🚀 Sr Product @ WhatsApp 💼 Prev Noom, Lyft, Exygy, UC Berkeley ger.mx/A4fHuLmksx_rP8YN4wAdL69e7EUR…

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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 13/08/2025
mommmm the boys are fighting again
Screenshot of news article on Elon Musk and San Altman's online spat.

Transcript:
The Rundown: Elon Musk announced on X that xAI is taking legal action against Apple over pushing OpenAI’s products in the App Store and suppressing rivals like Grok, with the conversation spiraling after Sam Altman accused X of similar tactics.

The details:

Musk’s claim that it’s “impossible for any company besides OAI to reach #1 in the App Store” was refuted on X, with DeepSeek and Perplexity as examples.

Musk then cited Altman’s own post receiving 3M views despite having 50x less followers, with Altman replying “skill issue” and “or bots”.

Grok was then tagged in, stating “Sam Altman is right” and noting Musk’s “documented history of directing algorithm changes to favor his interests.”

Musk posted a screenshot of GPT-5 declaring him as more trustworthy than Altman, also noting that xAI was working to fix Grok’s reliance on legacy media.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 03/06/2025
This makes wayyyy more sense to me- there was no way JWA was leaving Loewe to just run Dior menswear! Excited to see what's next for Dior 😍 www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashio...
voguebusiness.com
Jonathan Anderson has been appointed sole creative director of Dior
Chair and CEO of Christian Dior Couture Delphine Arnault discusses the appointment.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 25/05/2025
2nd fermentation has started! Excited for some strawberry hibiscus kombucha in a few days 💕
Photo of 6 flip top bottles of red kombucha with red fruit puree
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 22/05/2025
AD editor: ok but how do we appeal to gen-z? can we add some fun slang or something? AD writer: dont worry, I got it
Screenshot of article from Architectural Digest, titled "The Best Accent Chairs on Amazon Understood the Assignment"
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 17/05/2025
Starting kombucha fermentation today! wish me luck 🤞🏻
1 gallon glass jar filled with hibiscus sweet tea and SCOBY on oak shelf. Soon to be kombucha!
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 25/04/2025
Working my way through a mountain of Kleenex & eye drops this week - my allergies are back & it's definitely spring 🤧
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 20/04/2025
"What happens when you give a rock two eyes & a smile? Suddenly, a compression of sediment transforms into a pet—something to nurture, dote on & connect to." I don't design much these days so missed the Figpal launch, but LOVE the whimsy - more of this please! 💕 www.figma.com/blog/finding...
figma.com
Finding a Forever Home for FigPals | Figma Blog
A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.
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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 18/04/2025
When tools disappear, thinking emerges. When craft becomes cheap, taste becomes rare. And when execution is instant, the only thing that matters is the clarity of your mind. medium.com/@bertelli/de...
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Design at the Speed of Thought
The Designer as Conductor in the Age of AI
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jordanzhang.bsky.social @jordanzhang.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Every example of "I succeeded by breaking the rules" needs to be served alongside five examples of "I broke the rules and got absolutely blasted" for a startup advice blog/book/podcast to not be considered irresponsible. Survivorship bias is incredibly strong.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 16/04/2025
China: ha ha our tariffs are now infinity US: oh yeah??? well ours are infinity+1 and no takebacks! www.newsweek.com/china-245-tr...
newsweek.com
China faces 245% Trump tariff
The White House said higher tariffs are a result of Chinese retaliation on trade.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 13/04/2025
Repost with your favorite image of James Bond (wrong answers only)
Product photo of Gold Bond body powder
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 13/04/2025
Really cool seeing San Quentin trailblaze in prison reform, especially since Norway's 2-year recidivism rate is 17.6% vs US's 61.5%. Among the investments: single cell housing, a vocational training center and more. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
sfgate.com
Bay Area's oldest prison is getting a Scandinavian makeover
San Quentin is being transformed into a rehabilitation hub inspired by Scandinavian prison models.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 12/04/2025
silicon valley never disappoints
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 11/04/2025
If we're gonna be dealing with this tariff uncertainty for a while, then I'd like to at least see a resurgence in the secondhand/barter market. You know, my cow for your 3 magic beans, a few mice for temporary footmen, a dozen eggs (basically gold) for first born child, etc
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 10/04/2025
You know we're in a recession when fashion companies start aggregating - and this is a big one www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashio...
voguebusiness.com
Prada to buy Versace from Capri
The Italian fashion house was purchased for €1.25 billion from Capri, which is restructuring after a failed merger with Tapestry.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 07/04/2025
Not sure why people keep checking into the White Lotus at this point - they must have one hell of a PR team 🤔
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 04/04/2025
If you have any itchy wool clothes, definitely give this a try- soak it in lukewarm water with a capful of conditioner for 30 min, then squeeze dry, reshape, and let dry. Tried it over the weekend with this vintage Scottish wool cardigan and happy to say that it's now much softer and wearable! ❤️
Photo of vintage red wool cardigan from Pringle of Scotland with gold buttons
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 04/04/2025
Apparently if you want your TV show to take off, just name it something with -ance/-ence. Severance, Adolescence, and now... The Residence? 😳 It's a telepresence coincidence!
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Michael P-ahhhhhh-l 😱🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 03/04/2025
my grocery store has a massive trade deficit with me. I buy from them every week and they never buy anything from me. in order to correct this injustice, I’m going to self-impose a sales tax on groceries so that I can’t buy as many.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 01/04/2025
Always a 1
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 30/03/2025
Heading into the last month of mussel season!
Plate of mussels cooked in tomato-garlic broth and chorizo. A plate of bread and glass of red wine sits nearby.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 28/03/2025
Now I wanna know how many glasses of water it took to train & generate a glass of wine www.forbes.com/sites/esatde...
forbes.com
ChatGPT Can Now Generate A Full Glass Of Wine – That's A Big Deal
It might not look like much, but this 100% AI-generated full glass of wine represents an exciting leap forward in image generation.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 26/03/2025
Anyways, outside of this, Signal has the opportunity to run the funniest marketing campaign rn
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 26/03/2025
1. Good for the Atlantic on calling their bluff 2. Europe is going to be so (rightfully) pissed 3. The emoji celebration immediately after admitting to mass-killing civilians is disgusting and cringe
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 22/03/2025
I kinda wish Spotify had a listen later feature! Sometimes I see songs I wanna check out but not enough to interrupt my current jam session, you know?
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 20/03/2025
100%! Another way of putting it: understanding the "why" behind human behavior requires empathy and the ability to draw lateral connections, which LLMs are not capable of deriving on their own. They can approximate it, but only in a shallow sense, which means missing the crucial deeper insight
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 18/03/2025
I'm so over the amount of unnecessary personification people give to LLMs. Guys, it's not a person, it's a TOOL. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Tech companies benefit from acting as though LLMs have their own agency, bias, feelings, independence, etc b/c it lets them deflect responsibility. Don't fall for it!
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 12/03/2025
Listening to the Acquired podcast on and off, I really wish they'd apply more criticality to their research vs relying solely on company-provided sources. Often feels like their episodes are more reflective of how each company markets themselves instead of how the company actually is (see: Hermes)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Big tech understanding of value has been shifted from "sell a thing you want" to "raise prices on the thing you are already paying for and justify it by adding a thing you don't want to it"
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 26/02/2025
Do you hear the people ping? Pinging the sounds of ICQ. It is the music of a people who will not be Slacked again 🎶✊🏻
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 26/02/2025
Tech overhype signs: 1. There's no concrete, testable definition of what AGI is 2. Yet, it's touted as a magic box that can solve anything 3. The concrete goal it's associated w/ is a financial metric ($100B created for investors) It's like Blockchain all over again! techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/m...
techcrunch.com
Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch
Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 17/02/2025
this living room rug, by iris apfel 😍
Photo of a bright turquoise rug with pink flamingos, parrots, and other tropical birds
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 11/02/2025
Is it the weekend yet 😮‍💨
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 10/02/2025
not even moved in yet and they've already found us
Photo of a Shen Yun 2025 advertisement resting on a countertop.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 09/02/2025
men only want one thing
Screenshot of text conversation about furniture buying. Sender: "okay, most of the big things are bought! One ones remaining are washer/dryer and the couch". Recipient: *sends a link to a TV*
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 07/02/2025
We finally closed!! yay now to catch up what's been going on this wee- oh .
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit is carrying a stack of pizza boxes into a doorway .
Alt: Troy Barnes (a character from Community, played by Donald Glover) holds a stack of pizza boxes and enters a room with a smile... only for that smile to drop when he realizes that the room is on fire and everything is in chaos.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 06/02/2025
me excitedly explaining to my husband the brilliance of the various Notion databases I've set up to track home improvement inspo, projects, vendors, and completed jobs
media.tenor.com
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
Alt: Crazed man in a blue shirt and tie pointing conspiratorially at a bulletin board with way too many papers, red string, and unhinged marker chicken scratch
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 06/02/2025
📣 If you're a frontend or full stack eng that cares about accessibility, this could be a really great role to apply to!
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 04/02/2025
Breaking up your feed to share interior design shots from Gloria Steinem's brownstone in Manhattan
A vintage Moroccan pendant light illuminates the Clé tile-clad shower nook in the primary bath. Shower curtain in a fabric from Una Malan; walls in a custom color by Sydney Harbour Paint Co.; rug from Nazmiyal Collection.A corner of the living room features a loft bed fashioned out of a salvaged front porch from Connecticut. A mural by Laura Emrick defines the seating area underneath.A sofa upholstered in green velvet and trimmed with bullion fringe anchors the ground-floor living room. A salvaged carved wood doorway from Urban Archaeology surrounds a mirror on the back wall.Steinem (wearing a Valentino Blouse, Nili Lotan corduroy trousers, Chanel boots, with a Joseff of Hollywood silver necklace and Karl Lagerfeld prototype bracelets) in the second-floor living room of her New York City residence. Blouse and Jewelry from Lily et Cie; Fashion styling by Nina and Clare Hallworth.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 03/02/2025
Someone said these Grammys feel like they're from the timeline where Kamala won, and that's just too real for me 😅🥲
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 03/02/2025
Been really liking these 3 custom Bsky feeds: - Mutuals: Posts from mutual follows, been liking this for a cozy "close friends" type feel - Popular with Friends: basically a curated "trending" feed of things you *actually* care about - Quiet Posters: take a walk in the road less posted 😇
Screenshot of 3 custom newsfeed in Bluesky: Mutuals by @skyfeed.xyz, Popular with Friends by @bsky.app, and Quiet Posters by @why.bsky.tram
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 02/02/2025
Toured Heath Ceramics factory in Sausalito today- so much thoughtful craftsmanship & color ❤️ If you're looking for a fun weekend activity, highly recommend this one, followed by seafood lunch at Fish. right around the corner
Photo of front of Heath Ceramics Factory- a big blue wall with tall monospaces sans serif font reading "HEATH"Photo of colorful vases from the Heath Ceramics shop. Rows of tomatillo green, salmon, and eggshell baby blue bud cases, round vases, and tall vases sit side by side on a wooden shelf.Photo of a quality assurance shelf at Heath Ceramics Factory. Various plates, saucers, cups and vases sit grouped by color, with ideal color samples to ensure that glazing looks correct.A photo of a blue wall with glaze color reference for employees in the foreground. In the background, stacks of fired, unglazed bowls and plates arranged nearly on shelves.
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 02/02/2025
Seeing Canada band together like this makes me so fucking proud 🇨🇦❤️
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/02/2025
Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 31/01/2025
Had the most ridiculous call w our loan officer: - On closing: "oh we've got plenty of time till 2/5, that's like next Saturday" (it's Wed) - On what docs we need to setup a bank acc w them: "no idea! I just get them one at a time" - After saying to call tmrw: "oh wait hahaha i don't work tomorrow!"
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 31/01/2025
I know we're all tired of hearing about Deepseek, BUT this isone of the clearest and most thoughtful (read: not-hysterial) breakdowns of Deepseek's R1 model I've seen to date: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Tp...
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Deepseek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer
YouTube video by Dave's Garage
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 30/01/2025
I'm so over homogeneity hires
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 30/01/2025
FYI for Bay Area- letter from a pilot originally sourced from reporter @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Starting Feb 1, travel to/from SFO will be riskier due to lack of air traffic controllers at nearby airport San Carlos, whose departure path directly overlaps SFO's arrival path. More below 👇🏻
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Lucy Chen @lucychen.com · 29/01/2025
Having been through a similar company/culture takeover, my heart really goes out to those working in govt this week 🙁
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