Julian Lehr
@julianlehr
Sentence designer. Currently @linear. Previously @stripe.
New essay: The case against conversational interfaces • Natural language is a bottleneck • The "pass me the butter" test • AI as augmentation ↓ julian.digital/2025/03/27/the…
Come for the issue tracker, stay for the ASMR.
Introducing Dashboards. A single, modular view to monitor key metrics.
Wonder how much longer this M&A loophole will remain open. Is there a Polymarket bet for this yet?
Welcome Windsurf to this list of totally serious independent companies
First-mover advantage doesn't mean you can't catch up on product. It means you can't catch up on distribution despite delivering an equally good or better product.
First-mover advantage is a myth
New podcast interview:
When I think about the most durable skills for designers in an AI world... Storytelling is right at the top of the list So for this week's episode @julianlehr gives us an inside look at how storytelling works at Linear 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=NQmw8e…
Lexicon is the type of company you'd expect to get replaced by AI, but will actually rise in importance.
Pentium. Powerbook. Azure. Vercel. CapCut. BlackBerry. Sonos. Swiffer. Febreze. Impossible Burger. Subaru Outback. One company named them all. Over 40 years, @LexiconBranding has named nearly 4,000 brands and companies, employing 250+ linguists and pioneering the art and…
We raised a Series C at a $1.25B valuation, led by Accel. Now back to building and continuing our mission to inspire and accelerate builders. In this next stage, Linear is becoming the place where teams, AI, and agents build software together. → linear.app/blog/building-…
INSERT COIN: linear.app/agents
i do think the future of work is like starcraft or age of empires. you have 200 microagents you’re directing to fix problems, gather information, reach out to people, design new systems, etc.
We spent 20+ years debating the semantic web (web 3.0) and why it would never work, but somehow nobody seems to acknowledge the fact that LLMs are almost exactly what Tim Berners-Lee predicted? ("intelligent agents") The idea of manually creating and maintaining semantically…
The Creation of Agent Linear (2025), web fresco
Human, meet agent. linear.app/agents
Introducing Pulse. Stay up to date on what's happening across your product organization with a personalized feed of updates and discussions.
If you actually believe this, you should short Bitcoin.
If your brand is your moat, you won’t have a moat for much longer.
Creators like @rsms don't get enough credit for their work. There should be a Nobel prize for "building useful things for the internet".
Inter is an internet treasure
Terrible news for the people on this platform who've been claiming that ChatGPT has no moat or lock-in.
we have greatly improved memory in chatgpt--it can now reference all your past conversations! this is a surprisingly great feature imo, and it points at something we are excited about: ai systems that get to know you over your life, and become extremely useful and personalized.