The family Cal.​com keeps. Bring it home soon! Here is what I think designers will find most useful about my latest (and greatest) OFL release 🧵

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efficiency, productivity, speed we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for ship faster merge more manage more agents compress every loop remove every pause turn every hour into output but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply? not react not optimize not summarize not clear the queue think to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear to find the purpose underneath the motion to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all ai could be a new canvas a way to make strange things personal things impossible things tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories more content more funnels more tickets more fake work pretending to be value you can merge 2000 prs you can manage 500 agents you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day? what is the point if you stop talking to other humans? stop learning about the past? stop playing? stop wandering? stop being surprised? what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you? speed is not meaning scale is not wisdom automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster and where are we running? toward what? a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want? the danger is not that ai makes us lazy the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention infinite execution before we have developed taste infinite motion before we have learned how to be still maybe the real frontier is not more speed maybe it is discernment knowing what not to make knowing when to stop knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves tools should give us more life not turn life into a tool if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more it should help us become more human more imaginative more free otherwise, it’s the same old factory just without humans

I love little solutions like this. We used to have a loading bar at the top of the app whenever the app was syncing in the background, but it was bothering me because sometimes the sync was very short and you'd just see it flashing up there. Also it felt uninspiring. Then I thought, why not re-use our little "brain" icon (which opens account settings and shows at all times), but now when a sync is present, it just turns into a little loader, and when done goes back to normal. Conceptually perfect too, because it "syncs your mind" 🧡 It's simple enough to be ignored, but visible enough to know that something is happening.

if you're in intelligence, pivot to love

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Something so simple, and already so good, just got even better. Design really is never finished, and that's the best part.