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If you want to see what it looks like to accelerate your career with AI, look no further than Flora Guo 👀

She has one of the more impressive career trajectories of anyone I've interviewed on this show (and is easily one of my favorite Twitter follows).

Flora is currently the founding design engineer at Paradigm. But before that, Guillermo (the Vercel CEO) personally DM'd her to join the Vercel team.

So we're going deep into career growth, design engineering, what it's like being a founding designer at an AI-native startup.

• Mental models for using AI as a learning tool

• The challenges of designing AI-first products that work at scale

• Flora’s experiments with new design tools like Paper and Variant

• What Flora learned working alongside top design engineers at Vercel

• How Flora evolved her workflow with Claude Code over the past year

• + a lot more

Watch on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

🤝 WITH RAYCAST

If you’ve been listening to this show for a bit then you’ve heard me profess my love for Raycast multiple times by now…

So I want to highlight someone who started using Raycast after hearing about it on Dive Club 👇

Greg actually called it a life-changing product and said it changed his entire year 😮

I can’t recommend Raycast enough.

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Dive Club listeners are seriously talented

👆 this message is from one of my absolute favorite startups right now (pretty addicted to their product tbh).

I love this screenshot because it highlights the quality of people in the Dive Talent Network.

Every time I share an initial shortlist with companies they have a similar “OMG” moment lol.

What makes it unique is that companies apply to talk to you… not the other way around.

It’s an easy way for talented people to see what’s out there without having to be super public about it.

So if you’re open to new opportunities, take a second to claim a spot in the new talent network 💪

Meet the Dive partners 

I made a list of my favorite products and asked them to come on as sponsors of the newsletter/podcast. They said yes 🥹

The #1 way to support Dive Club is to check them out👇

Framer​ → How I build my websites

Genway → How I do research

Granola → How I take notes during CRIT

Jitter​ → How I animate my designs

Lovable → How I build my ideas in code

Mobbin → How I find design inspiration

Paper → How I design like a creative

Raycast ​ → How I stay in flow while I work

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