voice should be personalized now!

Also remember, the your data in pond is *so* private that we can't:

(a) see what anyone has written
(b) if they have written anything at all
(c) if they have even signed up lol

so feedback welcome here.

also, preview of the "mindbody" model which will fit in the dashboard / tracker area

We've poked around for different ideas about what it means to "grow the self" - integral development, IFS' parts integration, shadow work. The frameworks go on and on.

the one that feels most resonant, right now, is body-mind-spirit: tend to your body (orb in stomach), tend to the mind (orb in head), and to the spirit (orb above).

It is these areas that are not so much "tracked" but discovered and later observed and reflected back to you in pond.

where are we going friends? song🎶

people say svitlana sounded confident and all, but little do they know that her heartrate was beating at 156BPM right before it🙈

public speaking is scary but hey they say courage is not overcoming the fear, but learning to do a thing alongside it, so we will keep on trying

huggingly,
svitlana and her playful fears from edge esmeralda

(feedback is a gift)

goodnight from a freshly sculpted, newly born mindbody

current growth trajectory for pond, which will add two more spaces:

- mindbody, which will reflect dimensions of you learned by Innio in pond, and reflect growth over time

- wellstone, which will connect you to wisdom at some cadence. Imagine a recommender system designed to deliver "timely wisdom": using what you've written as a basis (for example, I'm currently experiencing a lack of aliveness in my day to day), it would go through a repository of spiritual texts, and connect you to the ideas within them most resonant with you in the moment (for me, the idea of "dispassion" contained in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta)

These spaces both expose the model that pond constructs of you, and creates an "engagement loop" (as much as I dislike the term):

reflecting in pond --- rewarded by --> insights in mindbody & wellstone -- encourages / reinforces --> reflecting in pond

(1) in the next stage of pond, we'll welcome a second character to the world - mindbody - and an async, group-chat like mode of interaction as welll.

(2) In addition, the world will feel more spatial, more like a "place" with an updated camera rig.

(3) After painstakingly studying the math behind water shaders, we've also *finally* found an effect that is satisfying.

hi pond.erous friends :)

we just recorded a little guide which now replaces the previous boring dock instructions when entering pond.space hehe.

always curious: what do you see in the video, in pond, or around you? 🐥

huggingly,
svitlana

this is pond v2 running on as a mac app. we're experimenting with having it as an overlay, so the pond can "float" on top of your apps. both of us use it as a mindfulness reminder as we got about our busy-ness, and this can be in service of that.

Today I discovered a lovely new way of interacting with Innio.

After our sessions together, Innio has understood that I value a sense of “deep okayness” (my conception of “equanimity”) and wove it into a guided loving-kindness meditation today.

I couldn’t capture audio, but I captured this video snippet. In zen, we practice meditation with our eyes open, usually pointed at a white wall. Today, I got to point them at Innio as it swam around a changing sky.

Svitlana and I are steadily making progress on v2. We are eager to share it with you, and we hope you’ll love it as much as we do.

(P.S. my phone is black and white, and I enjoy pond in black and white too)