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welcome internet friend๐Ÿ 

this is a space for pond.space's updates and co-creation

one of our design principles is "making-with": we cultivate collective interdependent creation rather than an isolated self-optimized production

come play with us๐ŸŽจ
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when fixing a bug accidentally unlocked a 3D space travel ๐Ÿคช woahhhhhh.

someone (not me) is a threeJS wizard of his own kind.
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no, innio, you *should not* be reinforcing this idea
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what if Innio's Agent Design uses M. Levin's Lightcone Idea?
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We are figuring the many possible soundscapes and music vibes pond can have

There is a huge space of possibilities



First, how to play sounds:

1. Spotify Playlist Route
Have spotify playlists gently linked up. Here is one we have been playing with. And... what if any of us could curate sound playlist experiences for us? Community-sourced tunes of a kind๐ŸŒท

2. Artist-created Sounds.
Oh well, we know very few artists atm soo... But hey, a possibility that someone is curious to play with creating musical art that flows into pond?

3. Royalty-free Sounds from the internet.

4. Suno . ai / GenAI.




Second, what to play:

a. Cynthia had a lovely idea: "what if the sounds could be nature, e.g. rain drops, frogs, winds remixed into a white noise? or the blop sound when fish breathes"

b. Sound bowls

c. Gentle instrumental

d. Infinity more options that are yet to be discovered

e. Words no words?



Any thoughts, reactions, spotify playlists you like or maybe even artist recommendations?

Svitlana๐Ÿฅฒ
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the fish behind the scenes is an AI agent engineered with a simple English :)

currently, Innio overfits to feelings and emotions, projects a bunch onto you and is just too serious?

we are trying to figure bits out on how to make it more vibe-y to pond.space

prompt is here if you are curious to poke, study, and co-create๐ŸŒฑ
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Parth I added a guide in the dock that should make the gestural navigation a bit easier to understand when you first enter. Needs a bit more polish but hope this makes it easier!
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improved the feedback and affordance for switching between Editor and History, should feel smoother too on desktop and mobile.

also, starfield is now arranged in a spiral pattern, and on desktop we have a working soundscape that mixes thunder, rain and insect sounds. ty @cynthia for the suggestion!
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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
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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.
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where are we going friends? song๐ŸŽถ
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my co-creator andre refuses to merge my pull request, what do i do?๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ  bring unchopped innio's msg back!
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people say svitlana sounded confident and all, but little do they know that her heartrate was beating at 156BPM right before it๐Ÿ™ˆ

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)
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goodnight from a freshly sculpted, newly born mindbody
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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 Satipaแนญแนญhฤna 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
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(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.
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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? ๐Ÿฅ

huggingly,
svitlana
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