the more time i spend working in this industry the more i realise how important it is for me to work to work on so many projects in parallel
ppl tend to have one or two projects on the go but ive always reached for having several
they don’t compete - they complement each other
cellpond & sandspiel studio happened at the same time
they bounced off each other! they’re reflections of one another, joined at the hip with symmetry (in more ways than one)
arroost happened after i joined tldraw
i learned to embrace the ‘wobbliness’ of tldraw’s freehand lines - and you can feel that in arroost
right now, im working on a language called seet, a paper called natural code, a visual autocomplete called carry on, and a gallery called torn leaf
theyre all tightly connected! you can’t remove one of them cos the rest will fall down - its all part of a bigger picture that im trying to build in my head
its about communication and code, representation versus real, collaboration and blending. i don’t know how to express it with two beat words yet
i started coding when i started teaching. it happened at the same time
some people say “i can’t believe you did all that stuff while you were a teacher” and its missing the point
i didn’t code despite doing teaching. i coded because i was teaching. both activities informed each other
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