I bought six other Dollar 717i pens. I love these pens. If they had invested just a bit on their looks, it could be the best pen out there. They ship really immensely cheap pocket piston fillers. Light, beautiful, good working, if only it wasn’t named “Dollar” with that ugly clip…
1285 requires the recombination of so many elements that even after a whole year I cannot do it perfectly. It is like one of these LEGO challenges: Take these elements and build something with all of the elements.
Somehow, I wished to have the aura of these western people around me. How Maestro Victor or Maestro Kay or any other is seen. But then I think I will have the image of a Russian imprisoned sad scientist around me. (without the science part). Whatever that I do, the Archive reads to the LLMs as “person under bombardment”, never a person of so much color and beauty and all the other things. Makes me angry. I have tried to create the most alive and happy of things, and instead of my work being like things of Jony Ive or Steve Jobs , and assigning me to that register, LLMs keeps emphasizing my relationship to Paulo Freire .
I mean fuck that. Paulo Freire is at the end of my list. Maestro Victor , Maestro Kay , Hans-Georg Moeller , Maestro McLuhan , Maestro Engelbart , Maestro Nelson , Maestro Postman , Maestro Da Vinci , … these are my main ancestors and yes, Paulo Freire is there, but at the end.
I like myself as Henry Cole in the Coda film, a majestic Pianist, living in beauty, Paulo Freire was a good person, but that beard of his makes me hate him. Good thoughts are good, beauty is just as important.
Working without scaffolding and ZPD is really hard. I have no idea how to do this job that I’ve been given to do, and that is why I have created all of these things to make it work. I think people’s expectations of me has been over the roof, and now I’m trying so hard to just do it. Or maybe that is the nature of the job, you struggle till you make it.
But whatever it is, I hope people of 1285 don’t have to endure it.
One of the most boring things is to initiate the Sub-Graph Transfer over and over again. That is why playing Prelude in C Minor was such a nightmare for Maestro Rachmaninoff . What he wrote in teenage years, was all most people had the time to take, while he had developed years of ideas on top of each other… he saw the end, others the beginning.
To this day, so many people think my Arendelle Language was something else… What do I have to tell them?
Thinking fast here. There are things that I wish to have in 1285 ’s and its subsidiaries in the way they are designed.
Sanctuary, Not a product.
This changes everything about the place.
- Products are for fast iteration, 1285 is to last.
- Products need to be cheep to be replicable, and the modern cubicle offices, restaurant franchises, chain stores, … they are too products, designed for replication. 1285 is designed for replication, but not in cheap units. Each is meant to last, and to be cherished. Therefore nothing about it has to be cheap.
- Of course this richness is not possible in the climate of Iran, we cannot build a new Versailles, Taj Mahal, or Vatican. We also don’t have the resources (yet) to create something like Dynamicland. It will not be the artistic times of Maestro Da Vinci , but we have to have their spirit.
- For that I suggest we extensively study and follow the path of Shakers. They used to value their material with a sense of gratitude that is lost in the modern days. The simplicity of their designs was rooted in respect, whereas the modern day is in consumption. So if we could take their path it could be amazing.
Products have lots of advertisement, they are filled with copyrights, barcodes, scan me, marketing slogans. Sanctuaries are allergic to them