Erica Hu

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[Erica Hu @catinwool]

I love how Sally Rooney doesn’t use quotation marks in her books. It’s as if the characters’ inner voices exist on the same plane as the outside world. What we see and experience are just extensions of how we think.

It gets even more interesting when two characters have a conversation. You really notice how they mirror each other, and their contours slowly melt away as they speak and listen. You get to a place where two characters “complete” each other.

I’ve been thinking about how conversational interface design could accomplish the same. Especially in the use case of Glia, something as intimate as reflection and brainstorming. Instead of a visual and tonal chasm between machine and human, it should form a seamless stream. The conversation stops feeling like an exchange and starts to feel like unspooling thoughts.

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@Restless_Egg I’m loving these golden lines

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@sinasanm smile-inducing

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@pen_ame Yes! And I love how the viewer has to physically shift perspective in order to see the skull :)

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

I took myself to the National Gallery for a meditation. “The Ambassadors” is one of my favorite paintings. Always a reminder of memento mori and my appetite for beauty that is alive, a contrast from the two solemn men posing before power and wealth, indistinguishable as objects.

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

Also picked up two new color study books :) Glia’s new feature designs will be awesome

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

I always end my visit at the Impressionism Hall. Light and colors in the everyday. These painters create worlds I want to live in, making even the hard labor and cruelty of this world feel worthy of the human condition.

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@rachelnabors I will text you after I watch it!!!

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@alixwiessser Hahahhaha it was human-in-the-loop ☺️🤭

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

Glia is in public beta on the App Store 🐾🩷 download today and start gardening memories that matter the most to you.

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@rachelnabors you look so incredibly cool!!!

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@azchristohell @genmon They are rhyming poems that tell time! 😀

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

The most exciting unboxing of the year is one that opens up a new way of experiencing time 🌷💕 @genmon

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@eveshaaa I couldn’t stop looking at it!!!

[Erica Hu @catinwool]

@rachelnabors That sun hat looks so good!!! 🩷

[Restless Egg @Restless_Egg]

1. Schools were previously optimized to produce order-following people, namely because you needed people to act together in an orderly fashion to do most things (building stuff, operating heavy machinery etc).

What should education optimize for today or in the near-future, given the real possibilities of agi?

Restless Egg thinks one answer is that we need more entrepreneurs who will invent things that pluralize the affordances of AI beyond productivity and that we need less people who are good at following orders.

[R 'Nearest' Nabors @rachelnabors]

Saturday hacking + tea with fellow founder @catinwool. Discussed: "dark founding principles," the ones you don't put in the deck, and how to make them sound more socially acceptable. Like "reimagining social networks" (vs "burning everything down and dancing on the ashes"). V important startup stuff