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and all of a sudden everyone gets to go home @OpenAI

Exploration work that happened before we got to the current live landing page that's on @at_protocol Once I understood the team’s goals and visual taste, I moved quickly into distinct directions we could react to together. Sharing early made the conversation concrete and helped us learn what felt right. After a few open feedback loops, we found the direction that became the website’s live brand and UI system. I find this especially effective when clients know what they like but don’t yet have the language to describe it.

One of the best things about our office at @internetxstudio is that there's almost always something going on. I love that our office is more than a tech office ❤️

efficiency, productivity, speed we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for ship faster merge more manage more agents compress every loop remove every pause turn every hour into output but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply? not react not optimize not summarize not clear the queue think to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear to find the purpose underneath the motion to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all ai could be a new canvas a way to make strange things personal things impossible things tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories more content more funnels more tickets more fake work pretending to be value you can merge 2000 prs you can manage 500 agents you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day? what is the point if you stop talking to other humans? stop learning about the past? stop playing? stop wandering? stop being surprised? what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you? speed is not meaning scale is not wisdom automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster and where are we running? toward what? a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want? the danger is not that ai makes us lazy the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention infinite execution before we have developed taste infinite motion before we have learned how to be still maybe the real frontier is not more speed maybe it is discernment knowing what not to make knowing when to stop knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves tools should give us more life not turn life into a tool if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more it should help us become more human more imaginative more free otherwise, it’s the same old factory just without humans

POWER in a UI

vibing some whimsy things for my whimsy site

tweam @aalimbuyuguen @caidanwilliams @elijaharita @hellohsuh @wwwjim @SolRuck @vaniagrwall

This man is truly what I call a 10x forward deployed design engineer xD

I had the honor of meeting @NandhDevineni the man behind Coinage last weekend and it's incredible what he's been able to put out in a handful of month just on his own. check it out >>> coinage-app.com/

i got that dog in me

Register here by tomorrow to save your spot: browserbase.run/navigate

great application of jelly properties <3 I definitely spent a little too much of my lunch break playing this

I think I did it guys!

Am i crazy for loving this kind of stuff? It makes me so happy to see non-tech businesses being recognized and empowered to dream bigger

This is your sign to make friends on the internet :) I had the honor of hopping on a call with @stevelauda_ from blissful design and learning more about him and his design journey. If you've never met Steve, well now you have! Say hi!!

Best shopping assistant out there

Sorry to say this but the right answer was just goofy doodles