They might start fast but get stuck along the way.
Be creative.
Creativity is about applying yourself to different patterns and folding principles into them to create the solution.
The form factor never left. We just stopped listening to it.
Motorola pager, 1996. BlackBerry Torch, 2010. Sidekik cyberdeck running a full agent stack, tonight.
Same silhouette. Screen up, keys down, thumbs ready.
What changed isn’t the shape — it’s what’s behind the keys.
The pager received. The BlackBerry replied. The deck reasons.
Local model. RAG pipeline. OCR sidecar. Agents handing off tasks while I read the output.
Imagine a frontier model on a BlackBerry. That’s not nostalgia — that’s the point.
We’re not going back. We’re going back for what we left.
Because we want options: → multimodal, not multi-menu → multiple models, swappable mid-thought → harnesses I switch like tools, not marry like religions → voice on every agent, not the one that paid for the slot → hardware I own, ecosystem I chose
The industry spent 20 years teaching us convenience means surrender. That the seams get hidden because you can’t be trusted near them.
I want the seams. I want to reach in.
Three devices. One shape. The shape was never the problem.
The problem was who held the keys.
Now I do.
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It’s always right under my nose.
The deeper I look, the more it seems that many of the patterns I notice were never hidden—they emerge naturally from the physics governing energy, information, and feedback.
*Exhales deeply*
I’m actually using the Sidekik as my daily AI workstation.
It’s where I run Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw every day. A small, purpose-built device that stays on, stays ready, and lets me work from anywhere.
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