26 April '26

Frode: Mmm Not what you're thinking, what you can't Highways in the brain that never link Dendrites almost touching, falling short Spatial tools might surface what your mind cannot support Lacunae in the connectum gaps you'll never see Till you lay your knowledge out and find the empty seat Frode said it plain, not what am I missing now? What am I not able to think about and how? Core space for the writing context all around Elements of thought not data being found Untangle what you know to see what isn't there Author on the vision pro thinking laid out bare Frode brought the demo, author running spatial maps Flat plane full of notes, keywords, citations, scraps Gazing pinch to select Double pinch to open wide Focus mode strips everything that's not connected to your side AI extracts the glossary Terms pulled out of prose If one definition aims another then the link just grows No lines drawn by hand That lesson came from early days Linney and society index cards Connections in a haze They mocked it up with threads between and found it felt all wrong This a roll and cluttered so the lines did not last long ⁓ Tim pushed on the question, when's this tool supposed to land? Early generative writing or the editing you planned? Hypnagogic states he said, like Einstein with the key falling into brass. You wake and catch what you can't see. That trance before you know your topic, kitchen window thought. calls it from South Africa the thing that can't be taught. Fro dance a clean dark mode, small window desert scene, Bluetooth keyboard, strip the headset down to something lean, throwing out the power of the headset. That's the point. Part of the design is knowing when to disappoint. Core space for the writing context all around, elements of thought not data being fed. Untangle what you know to see what isn't there Author on the vision pro, thinking laid out bare Joanna dropped a word the room had never heard Ductus Ancient Roman path, the strokes that pen and thought Conductus, both the way you form the letter And the way you guide the reader, frode lit up Pulled up author, showed the mark Like a breeder of semantic trails Through paragraphs you've lost the thread inside Alice said bring handwriting back The dexterity's the ride She runs workshops writing to the rhythm of the beat Embodied cognition, arms and music Not just fingertips on keys and seat Then she sparked the idea Hand on table, physical and real Tap a virtual inkwell Switch from editing to connecting Change the feel Tim said look What frode moves in space is not what movies show Sci-fi screens with data objects slide into and fro This is elements of thought, internal choreography Conducting your own concepts, not external geography Pippa asked how voice commands reshape the thinking acts Speaking and composing use different neural tracks David, 35, he is watching XR shift and grow Said he's not sure he likes it, but it's common, even so We better make it human-centric now before we lose the chance Jean asked about the stylus and the pleasure of the den Core space for the writing context all around Elements of thought not data being found Untangle what you know to see what isn't there Author on the vision pro, thinking laid out bare Pippling to Helen's work, 18th century Japanese brush Emotion carried in the form of calligraphies, hush Writing, writing ass performance Standing up with vertical script Tim said that might be genuinely new A sensation never grips Susan asked for sound Could melodies or buzz and fill the space? Frode dreams of LLMs as Arthur avatars your face Not AI summaries but re- of the actual voice Technology, he said, is not the chip It's where the users get the choice It has to feel like a pen you carved to fit your hand Too important to be left to technologists to come in Future of Tech Symposium September, London town Lab meets every Monday 4.30 Come on down Finally wrote back, high level said they'd help, writ large meets in two weeks Terminology summits on the shelf Tim wants maybe two sessions What we have in name and what we haven't thought about The words we haven't claimed Frode's at 80%, the last 20 is the grind Baby Testa's lining up from every corner of this mind But here's the question hanging when the session hit the wall Can a spatial tool reach the dream state? Or just organize the whole