thinking through making 🎨⌨️ Design @apple, studied @cmudesign, @cmuhcii, + @creativeinquiry. Interact fellow. 🏹
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Anyone need a 3D print plan for StandBy? (marisa.lu/EmotoWebsite/ throw back to 2018 with the @lucas0choa & @GautamBose18)
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POV: you want to give someone 💐 flowers for the aesthetic + symbolism, but 💐die too quickly.
… so you diffuse a 100 flowers (easiest with @krea_ai) to arrange as numbers, and print the card deck to give so they can play & make longer lasting memories ❤️ 🤞
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Until we've layered text-to-image models more fluidly into gestural, dictated canvas interfaces, can we at least have better candidates and nearest-neighbors for the prompts? It's not a new interaction, so this must be around somewhere already right?
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I love animation, but normally it feels like trying to pixel push thoughts through molasses. Looom has completely changed the game! I’m heAd OvEr 👠 (still) in LoVe with it for making it possible to doodle in motion fast enough to tHinK and use it duRing a ConVersatiOn
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@RamonGilabert we thank you for the craft of that mesh warp👌✌️
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Thank you for coming! Can’t wait to see the boutique software you all build with local models 🙌❤️ #WWDC24
.@lumar_isa’s talk at the Developer Centre was the best I have seen when it comes to storytelling! 🤩
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I can’t thank @eranhill and Finn Ericson enough!!! I hope you guys feel the onslaught of love and enthusiasm for your work pouring in EVERY DAY.
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I will always be fond of physical paper, so if you’re gonna handwrite on a flat computer instead….let’s get you some magic ✨ (anyone else love the diary scenes in Harry Potter?)
Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC.
The 11 most impressive reveals:
1. Using the iPad calculator as a notepad and getting real-time answers
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Thanks for coming Lorenzo! The work from the y’all and the developer community 🔥✌️ is really inspiring. I’m glad the talk could help.
Great presentation at the Apple Developer Center by @lumar_isa. Truly emotional and engaging! One of the best presentations I’ve seen. #WWDC24
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Hey y'all amazing folks ✨ we're looking for a software eng collaborator on Prototyping. Come play with new hardware and input technologies! We invent interfaces and applications exploring their potential for current and future products.
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…
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I want an adaptable digital computer space that generates according to function/the purpose I have in mind for actions. Ex: when I code, I want the computer to know how to arrange my windows coherently (lol, finder, stackoverflow, sublime, terminal, etc)
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#WWDC23 👀EyeSight with a👏Lenticular👏 lens 👏 Praises to the display incubation folksss 🙌
Photo credit: @supercgeek circa 2019 – (I promise this wasn't leaking anything, it was art class)
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The 4 am phone calls and manic sketching sessions on meandering flows are some of my fondest memories this year, and I'm beyond thrilled to see Jason share and articulate incredible rabbit holes with verve and elegance. Buh bye desktop metaphor, heyo new paradigms
Introducing Mercury OS: A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles.
medium.com/@jasonyuan/introd…
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This (with hot keys) and compositing 🙌🎉🔥will be so fast I don’t know whether to laugh or cry 😂 at the time I used to spend on VFX gigs.
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From our earliest sketches at the beginning of the pandemic to each iteration, alternate, and final incarnation pulling across VR sculpting, z brush, and hand finessed touches - 🥹- we’ve practically remade ourselves in the process. @KatieeMcIntyre we’ve grown so much.
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“Do you want to collaborate?”
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As a collaborator, or
a free contractor?
As if we are friends carpooling 🚙, or
as though I’m an unpaid Uber service 🚕?
Both get no 💵 cash … easy to conflate for all parties, so I wrote a quick comparison chart for myself:
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Often times I feel like I can’t close out a chain of browser tabs, because I can’t bear to lose that thread/path of thought. It’s not the keywords or brands or business names that matter to me (so I wouldn’t even be able to properly recall it via google keyword search)
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I'm grateful 😍🥰 to have had exponential collaborators🤩 — it's a level of collab I didn't know one could get so easily in school (where teams are often comfortably 'additive'...or at worst: lowest common denominator 😭) And ofc to the amazing Prof this started in @danlockton
Ever wished your phones 'smart' assistant could be more than just a disembodied voice? A new project with the talented @lucas0choa and @lumar_isa is finally out! Check out the full video at our website: emotoai.com
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[very incomplete list]
◦ Protest tool
◦ Improved storytelling tool
◦ Sketchbook for 3D + motion
◦ Video essay/music video
◦ An Amanda Gorman, Ted Chiang, or Malcolm Gladwell book cover
◦ New input for personal devices
◦ Useable wheeled high heels👠
✓ Album cover
[unordered]
a kiosk
a tax or govt. form
a spaceship or extraterrestrial habitat
a hotel
a design tool
a design studio
a grade-separated public transit system
a school (elementary/primary)
a programming environment (in-progress⏳)
an operating system
a home
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🙌 miss seeing @supercgeek at the office but even more excited to see his work moving at startup-speeds fast out in the wild
New interview!
Meet the skilled Cameron Burgess (@supercgeek), currently designing at @SoftwareAppsInc
"The night has always been my favourite time to work — especially when I want some deep focus time to crank away on a demo."
Read Cameron’s story in Lovers Magazine:
spaces.is/loversmagazine/int…
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My friend has some great work! I love that this takes a step towards trying to organize the chaotic headspace and tangential brainbarf of my computer. We have separate rooms in our homes for different purposes, I want my desktop to be headspace cleared for specific purposes.
This is a demo of a project I've been working on called Sessions. It's a tool that saves your computer's app/file/website layout for you to access later, thus freeing you to only have the relevant stuff running. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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And I hate that the interaction paradigms scale in a broken way that allow me to feel like what I’m doing is hoarding, rather than integrating or adding to my digital exo cortex.
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Made the card deck available online with custom packaging in case other folks want to gift these too🎄🎁
thegamecrafter.com/games/100…
POV: you want to give someone 💐 flowers for the aesthetic + symbolism, but 💐die too quickly.
… so you diffuse a 100 flowers (easiest with @krea_ai) to arrange as numbers, and print the card deck to give so they can play & make longer lasting memories ❤️ 🤞
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Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them. I think this applies to my digital life and spaces too. (😀 status: always buried by my mountain of browser tabs)
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Once upon a time there was a 'stupid-ideas' hackathon @soonhokwn took me to that I recall fondly. @graycrawford and I wanted to make a 'wristrument', but somewhere between early-Swift and watch-version-specific hurdles I got myself tripped up ...🙃I'm tempted to reopen the repo
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So back to the gesturally dictated canvas… Yes to the left, but make it multimodal 🙏 🥺 pls. I want to ToUch & Taaaalk to layer those prompts and anchor them spatially.
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High production value finesse ✨on every point for what's also a powerful talk! Congrats Ray 👏
I made a WWDC talk on how to design App Intents, which power system experiences including Siri, Search, Shortcuts, Action button, Controls, Widgets, and more.
Check it out: developer.apple.com/videos/p…
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The secret sauce of Looom, so simple yet 😭😭😭😭 so good is the ‘mark-recording flip-through’. Fantastic for both planning out motion or just meditative. This isn’t just for people who ‘draw’!!!!
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A piece that takes on the challenge of visual contrast; taking the messy, often uncomfortable visual motifs of physical birth, and crafting it beautifully as a metaphor celebrating women reforging themselves and each other.
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Beyond happy to see friends @jason, @glitchyowl + co take on absolutely everything we’ve despaired about digital conferencing, collaborating, (browsing ish) and turn it on it’s head! What an incredible step toward making digital activity fundamentally social and spatial.
beyond thrilled to share what my teammates and I have been up to... the prologue to a new kind of computer.
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😂 I love @crabbage_ smiling in the background at us goons
@lumar_isa & @lucas0choa sharing a moment in the nascent days of the institute
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Exponential collab with these two ❤️💪 best memories from undergrad marisa.lu/EmotoWebsite/
so good - reminds me of early emoto days a ton @GautamBose18 @lumar_isa — there’s some really great work in progress shots from back then — lucasochoa.com/#/emoto/
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@disconcision cheers to liminal spaces digital and physical where one might linger at a threshold, or peek around corners. Loved the convo snippet on expanding thresholds at otherwise very discrete digital interactions.
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What a joy to craft visual metaphors!Building blocks fit so well for Shortcut Actions. Y’all worked so hard through every night leading up to it (@supercgeek + @AriX) I’m honored to have been able to help polish it off.
🎭 WWDC BTS pt. 3 🎭
In the final days before filming, my amazing friend @lumar_isa lent a hand in crafting animations & carving the corners of 🐱🐶 building blocks 🧱🏰
As the crunch was too real, we forgot to document, so here’s a Memojied image from CMU to convey the vibe
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*happy sigh* this is sweet enough to kiss
Watercolour and 3D... The result is always so exciting to me... #watercolor #illustration #b3d #indiegame
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Continual fractured niches. Mutual understanding is hard enough already. The extreme would be when what we most have in common with each other is the outrage of “how could you — ?”
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Well, society is shared fiction, but some basic physical realities aren’t changing😂 just maybe our perception of it; “Sorry my window is where you’re sitting, can you move? The z fighting is making me nauseous”
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Ayyy 👀👀 🙌it was lovely to see some familiar namesss
Apple Design Award Finalists just dropped!!!! Weeeeeee 👀👀👀 #WWDC23
developer.apple.com/design/a…
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I can attest to this. It’s so light made of parachute material, and looks like dramatic SloMo at real speed
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Yaaaas - would love. Like stuff automatically merging into different desktops too. I hate being distracted by my own workspace. Haha - can we redo the OS?
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do @asciidiego & @viccpoes even sleep? 🛌 ⏱️I need to borrow their time turner. Absolutely on fire guys! 👏
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“ Innovation by Design Awards Recognize Several in HCII “ hcii.cmu.edu/news/2018/inno….
I’m happy but mostly grateful for the lovely peeps @lucas0choa, @GautamBose18, and the wonderful Professor @danlockton I got to do this with.
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The mark-recording makes planning out motion as fast as letting your hand*pencil move across the screen ‘acting’ out the motion in real time. Like this one was 5 seconds of dragging my pencil in a side ways ‘3’ for the body of the frogs. Or a looping gesture for the dragonflies.
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For short form motion sketches my heart ❤️ and head is always in Looom by @eranhill + co 🙏🙇♀️
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but some context is that I had such an AmAZING convo with @aniistoll for the first time (ty @jasonyuan for thinking of me + the intro) and she was so incredibly kind: generous with her time, and warm with her anecdotes and advice. I'm feeling gratitude overload.
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Mesh warp is photoshop! But generating from pattern was in Krea! Much easier than trying to get the same steering from control net
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@jasonyuan @rsnous @dlouhy 🙌Am delighted to see this playfully subversive piece come about. Even from the sidelines it looked like an exponential collaboration, congrats!!!! 😂 I migrated from Things over to Reminders for this.
Introducing Hijack Your Feed—an extension that replaces ads on your Twitter feed with tasks from your todo list ⚡ hijack.social
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*^ talk while drawing, simultaneously 👀 (not just being able to turn on dictation in a keyboard when putting a prompt in after the fact). I promise we can use the language side of our brain while moving our pencils at the same time.
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@malonso needs a raise
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Agreed! It’s a delight to see what indie app developers are thinking+working through. I’ve got another WWDC design lab shift Friday afternoon and can’t wait ✨
One of best things about WWDC for me is staffing the design labs. Not only I get to see incredible apps, it’s amazing how much we learn from giving feedback!
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A personal name for this is ‘Pointillist’ perspective; like, seeing a pointillist DeepDream painting of unknown scale. Every step back (another meta-view) changes how you see the ‘whole’ of the matter, but detail is lost, and optically mixing color is so context reliant.
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Lol, and to think we all use a google search bar everyday and the fundamentals of that interaction hadn’t even been ported over 😂
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😄 I love my friends and this headspace.
@maayan_albert and I are extremely excited to share Stamper, a project we worked on together to create
“a @p5xjs editor in shape of @sketch”
Try 🤚 it: p5stamper.com
Watch the full 🎞 video: vimeo.com/supercgeek/stamper
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@GautamBose18 @lucas0choa ❤️I be popping with joy seeing my friends bring their humor into this delightful piece! The whimsical nature and clever setup goes a long way to make a computer vision based ML project accessible 👏👏👏
I love Tiny Sorter, a fun new project using #Arduino + #TeachableMachine by @lucas0choa + @GautamBose18, placed right on your webcam. Really neat way to learn about physical computing + machine learning together! Instructions for building it yourself → experiments.withgoogle.com/t…
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YAAAAASSSSS!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭I’m so happy I could cry! Looom makes my day every time I can use it for work
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We love a good back and forth between modalities! Many 😍 for thoughtful little steps towards fluid multimodal input & output
🔮 I made an app! What if we took the "hold to record" interaction too far? I decided to find out and made a new kind of quick capture. Like voice memos, but with a whole lot more oomph. Meet Voiceliner.
a9.io/voiceliner/
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For both! Doodling and note taking for personal use and sketching micro-interactions for work; makes me wish it was possible to import external files to Looom, because I’ve also been taking Looom animations and overlaying them on other footage in AE.
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Alright y’all, Marcos has done it again ✨✨✨ … I think it’s time for me to buy a cat.
I made an iPad game for our cats. It makes background music too #catinteractiveinstallation #cats #ipad
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😍what a dream collab. Sao excited to buy sooo many copies if it’s ready in time for Christmas
Thrilled to share this glimpse of the just-approved cover of @tegabrain+my forthcoming book, with breathtaking art by the amazing Manolo Gamboa Naon, and incredibly kind endorsements by @digitalcoleman, @ChristianePaul2, and @johnmaeda
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👏amazing work! 😍 that looks like so much fun to wander around chatting with different orgs...😅it makes work life look boring in comparison
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I would like to continue working on side projects addressing these issues, though it seems a matter of figuring out where different amounts of time committed can be best applied. 😭still trying to figure that out.
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Someone started a lovely list of links to double your donations at docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Nice! Any other thoughts on useful constraints? I.e. having it happen on cursor highlights, where it can be constrained to the part of speech / syntax -> a proper noun highlighted, getting alts for that, but highlighting more of the sentence and getting -> ___?
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Dawww, thanks Mina! Spreading the appreciation to @lucas0choa and @GautamBose18
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Yellowtail the art piece 😍is one of those achingly succinct ideas that are ridiculously delightful to interact with; its essence is the core of what makes Looom the animation app as delightful as it is.
Delighted to announce that my interactive artwork Yellowtail (1998) is now a collectible interactive SVG at @hicetnunc2000 — the ultra-low-carbon, punk-rock NFT bazaar: hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/9954. (Big thanks to @vamoss for the @p5xjs template!)
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😭😫😍I want so much! (I took a class called Art&ML and made an uncompelling drawing partner. So this got my mouth watering and hands itching!!! Yis plsssssssss)
'Pair Programming' with GPT-2 trained on 2 million GitHub files. Straightforward near-term practical use of deep learning. I wish they had better examples - for example, I bet if you name a variable Gryffindor it will suggest Hufflepuff for the next one!
tabnine.com/blog/deep
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Wow! Excited for another Joy Mountford chat ✨with just herself she had me riveted with her anecdotes, but this topic is especially ❤️(hand drawn 2D and the “feel” (artistry?) of an interface) ty @graycrawford for the heads up 🙏
Ted also emphasizes Disney’s 2D-animation style helps us feel drawn-in to their personalities. We talk about interface design being about look & feel but rarely do we address the FEEL. Hopefully Ted can revive our sensitivities to re-engage with those subtleties as we design.
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Conspiracy theory:
“Why Bitcoin so ugly, that math might should be put to good use calculating light ray casts, bounces, + refractions.”
@harrison “Omg concept: you develop a free render software and hide Bitcoin crunching inside”
“...maybe this why rendering 🔥💻”
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omg. But ok, sorry for sounding like a ranting ad testimonial. I'm so anti-social digitally...😅and more of a lurker online...and actually just completely under a rock in terms of twitter still, BUT —
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Some bits of that convo included things like the value of 'doodles in the margins' (both literally and metaphorically) and a reminder that there's power on both sides in letting people know what you like. And I've gushed about Looom a lot, but haven't been vocal digitally. so.
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I would have thought you’d reference ye ol’ FreezeFrame work; being able to preserve the layout of apps, while also making it easier to switch.
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Wwoooowww. What a good throwback. The age of that UI with the now of the gestures. Yup, that juxtaposition be giving me shivers
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Wow, I’m so excited to see this visual system. Trying to parse what’s going on in an ML model kicked my butt this semester.
So excited to announce what we've been working on for the past months at #GoogleIO2019: a new version of Teachable Machine to train ML models in the browser 👩💻👨💻
Not live juuuust yet, but if you have an awesome use case please get in touch for a beta: g.co/teachablemachine19
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What a lovely idea! Hi again! I’m a senior at CMU. portfolio marisa.lu. most recent project was a prototype of a robotic system to give body and expression to the AI on your phone. published in Fastco’s September issue fastcompany.com/innovation-b…
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I’ve admired @aviromanoff’s thoughtfulness and care in endeavors big and small, along many facets beyond technical work. Truly what a special opportunity it would be to collab with someone like him! Congratulations 🍾 Avi!
so excited to announce: I raised $1m to build games that nourish relationships 💜🎉
to me, games are magic when they bring us closer to people we care about & help us express ourselves, laugh, and be silly
if this resonates w you — DM me, let's talk! 😄
magiccircle.studio/
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Absolutely! Preach itttt. Externalizing thought through working with our hands engages totally different parts of the brain ❤️
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How about we just never commute to work again? This can be such a win for digital community building, and a yay for climate if we didn’t need physical proximity for optimal collaboration.
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Hmm. I’ve had a relationship explode over a collaboration trying to address climate change. Starting with differences in how willing we are to quit our jobs to do it full time...nothing like impending ecological collapse to heighten value differences no?
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