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Feels like captchas and anything else meant to stand in the way of bots getting stuff done for me are going to be smacked out of existence by the long arm of capitalism.

This was our second major prototype at @inanimate_tech. It's a desk clock you talk to. When you talk to another person, you can tell whether you’ve caught their attention. Eye contact helps you know they’re listening. What might these cues look like in a physical device inhabited by an AI agent? Enter: TIME P1. This was our first prototype with a microphone. Our first device that you could prompt to change it's behaviour using just your voice. No keyboard or prototype web UI. Its small round screen let us experiment with that sense of attention, while its display and buttons gave the agent ways to respond to what we asked. Living with it also gave us room to discover what it could become. A request for a Tamagotchi ended up on the clock by accident, and the agent made it work using text and buttons. I started using it as a Pomodoro timer, hooked up to my task list on @BearNotesApp via MCP, counting completed tasks as I worked. These experiments are part of how we’re developing Promptable Products at Inanimate: exploring how agents translate intention into behaviour, and how these devices find a place in everyday life. This is Prototyping: "Why We Built a Desk Clock You Can Talk To."

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🚨fresh podcast out! fun dive into the history of decision infrastructure, how to coordinate effectively across teams of humans and agents, and of course @primitive_hq with @heyitsnoah

I want weirder representations of "readings"—the trace/artifact produced by a reader's interaction with text(s). Here playing with a cut-up "poster-ification". Cumbersome, in many ways, but interesting. Marginalia feel too subordinate to the text's structure. A separate precis feels too decontextualized. I want to see the whole, somehow, without leaving the parts behind. And a material I can work with over time, as my interpretation evolves. And, as this paper notes, ideally it can somehow represent my aesthetic experience.

4700 word labor of love. I've seen all the patterns and heard every story about in-house brand/creative studio teams. This is my vision for where brand teams can go (and why I joined @tryramp). Brand systems that behave like jazz. Brand as software.

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The problem with a device that can do anything is that you have to imagine what to ask it to do. Physical form changes that. A clock, lamp, or calendar gives you a way in. It constrains an agent just enough to make its possibilities easier to imagine. We don’t know yet what the right forms for agentic hardware are. WORKS is how we find out. WORKS are @inanimate_tech's fast-to-market, limited-release promptable products, built in public and tested in the open. @genmon and I sat down with @alouneou for a glass of wine and a chat about imagination bottlenecks, how physical form might help, and the wider cultural conversation that promptable products are becoming part of. This is WORKS in Progress EP1: Why AI Hardware Needs More Imagination.