Rockstar Games website in 2000

listening to new, dancier sounds by Gigi Masin open.spotify.com/track/5DKqHA...

bold, confident storytelling coming out of my home state, Kerala, in India. letterboxd.com/film/balan-t...

New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...

sketch of a launcher for paper-like devices I was making last year. Key concepts: - day planner as home screen, - call with AI for a daily planning ritual + support on activity tracking & form filling - routines, tasks and projects are associated with apps

Bodily awareness during advanced meditation: what happens and how should we study it? Announcing our new preprint: "Bodily Awareness in Advanced Meditation: A Three-Level Model of Interoceptive, Schematic, and Pacificatory Changes," now available on PsyArXiv. ⤵️

for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Favorite new YouTube channel alternates between validating and criticizing my best ideas. On software as place: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tBE2...

Collecting diagrams to sensemake relationships, different relationship patterns and fields with @clinamenic.com What’s been useful to you? are.na/block/46566804

Has anyone tried to migrate or sync their blocks and channels from are.na to @semble.so ?

@clinamenic.com uses obsidian as life OS. It runs everything from his journal, finances and website, to an extensive zettlekasten, all interlinked, with a patchwork of custom plugins that keep the system running smoothly. there will be many things to learn and discover here.

Just launched the paid tier of my substack, Solo Salon, for instructional content on second brains and personal knowledge management! This first one details some of the initial challenges of creating a multi-modal framework for second brains. solosalon.substack.com/p/notes-on-e...

mindbody, with material

nervous system as bonsai tree virtue as ties that bend us into shapes that we can eventually let go of, because we can hold our own shape

time passing in pond

amidst spaces for work and spaces for distraction, enter a space for contemplation

What does it mean to “grow the self” to you? What frameworks come to mind? An invitation to add them here www.are.na/andre-vacha/...

account cards with a sense of physicality from Horizon cc @playbalatro.com

new practice of sketching app concepts through state machines, which can then translate to be translated to linear flows. helps me zoom out and see the whole system and the experience we derive from it

desktop magnet poetry

thoughts are just ripples on the surface of consciousness

less "tools to use" and more "places to be"

life is peaceful. true friends, hot girlfriend, a diminishing sense of self

Core experience Horizon (wip @bsky.app client by @curlprojects.bsky.social ) is designed to support is "Discovery", which is a bit of a loaded term.

@jazz.tools has made working on this an absolute delight. As a designer who spends months working off of local JSON to put off backend wiring ... Jazz lets me do just that. Treat data as state, and it handles sync and storage and whatnot. Amazing!

An input bar that understands its context of use, and adapts to it, Journal Entry <-> Search <-> Public Post. A pattern to drastically simplify interactions with our @bsky.app client, Horizon.

Leeks are like "sweet spring onions" #buildinpublic

knock knock!