[blog] For Those Who Dream of Being Understood

A dream of communicating our dreams/ourselves

read the finished blog post here

A dream of communicating our whole selves , of our thinking

communicating myself

it’s always been a struggle and a lifelong endeavour to be understood. from as far back as i can recal

anti-productivity productivity

i wanted to draw what was in my head, or write what’s in my head

after decades of developing my craft, it’s something i take for granted now, but I think it’s something people still struggle with

But also I’m not really interested in productivity as the end-goal.

we all want to judged/seen-by-others by what’s on the inside, by what really matters to us

Productivity is a lifestyle now , complete with its own set of influencers espousing their own eerily similar ideas of clean perfection

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It’s all part of the game

the expressiveness of paper, a heavy tangible tool. but digital, the same feeling through very different means

Linear.app/readme

https://papers.mmm.dev/

nostalgic look back at retro tech, software can be great again

— What are the design principles that inform your decision making?

product principles

mmm used for everything

— What’s the “ideal state” look like? What might people be able to do?

— Maybe separate: Any sources of inspiration?

fight against the dark forces

intuitive as paper

communicate their ideas, the thinking behind it, and more of themselves

mixed media

url first

web tech

interactive, hypercard

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attn hungry productivity silos alerts/notifications

sameness

stuck in the past