[blog] For Those Who Dream of Being Understood

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

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

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

read the finished blog post here

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

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

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

Linear.app/readme

https://papers.mmm.dev/

Kinopio helps you express yourself and turn ideas into understanding

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

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

Use these templates , follow these 3 tips , buy and watch my multi-hour course.

mmm used for everything

It’s all part of the game

anti-productivity productivity

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

A dream of communicating our whole selves , of our thinking

communicating myself

A dream of communicating our dreams/ourselves

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interactive, hypercard

web tech

url first

mixed media

intuitive as paper

product principles

stuck in the past

sameness

attn hungry productivity silos alerts/notifications

fight against the dark forces

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

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

— Maybe separate: Any sources of inspiration?