Tom Phillips

Calm computing, Legaltech pm, prev @modostech

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@daniel_nguyenx This is awesome - excited to see your next experiments!

Hacking on something for eink too, if you’re interested to check it out

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@vgrichina @geoffreylitt @daylightco Eink phone project looks awesome btw!

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@vgrichina @geoffreylitt @daylightco @daylightco probs best to comment, but my understanding is they’ve invented something new for the screen tech, so it’s different from typical eink.

That’s why it refreshes so fast.

Definitely worth checking out their website, it’s a cool piece of kit

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@MaximeRivest ReMarkable is the gateway drug haha!!

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@MaximeRivest I recommend looking into Mark Weiser. ahead of its time, he was CTO of xerox parc.

He wrote some great HCI papers about how technology should fade into the background and inform without demanding our attention, “calm computing”

For me eink is an embodiment of those ideas

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@MaximeRivest As more and more information is generated, understanding that information is becoming the bottleneck, and that’s where eink can help. I think clearer reading on eink than on a backlit screen

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@MaximeRivest This is awesome @MaximeRivest!

Something special about eink I agree, it doesn’t grab your attention just sits there ready for you to decide to engage with it

I’ve been hacking a spatial PDF reader for a different eink tablet it’s called daylight

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@scottastevenson Agree and it looks good too

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@Yangyue_Wang @karenxcheng @cursor_ai Couldn’t agree more, this is what Mark Weiser meant by Calm Computing - computers that fade into the background

I’m hacking on something similar a spatial pdf reader for Daylight (eink tablet with super fast refresh)

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@steveruizok Fed it your video and it outputted a spatial PDF reader for @daylightco 🤯

It says it only wants to build sunlight friendly software

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@jxnlco I can also read PDFs much nicer with this new project I’m hacking for my Daylight tablet

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@shloked @daylightco @shloked added it, let me know if you have any other ideas

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

Still hacking on a spatial pdf reader for @daylightco tablet

Trying it here with Anthropic’s recent global workspace paper + related articles

Spatial reading feels promising

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@shloked @daylightco Love that idea, adding it now

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@geoffreylitt The @daylightco eink screen is nice to read. I feel smarter and more thoughtful reading from it (like reading on paper)

The fast refresh rate makes interfaces like this spatial pdf reader possible

Excited to keep hacking on it.

What should I add next?

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

With so much information being generated, as @geoffreylitt says “understanding is the new bottleneck”

We need better ways to process information.

[Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt]

Hot take: I think it's still important to understand the code that our agents write!

In this mega thread (based on my AIE talk today), I will explain why that's the case, and show some ideas for how to efficiently understand code. Alright, let's dive in. 1/

[Tom Phillips @tomcxphillips]

@kernio As much as it’s limited, chat is the mouse of the AI era. The mouse was not the best way to interact with PCs, but it was the simplest and easiest to adopt, that’s why Steve Jobs went with it. Same thing with Sam Altman and chat