I made a zine for the all-hands meeting in April:
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The pamphlet attracted immediate interest from SAP executives. Within days from the gathering, I was thanked by *********** (VP Research Partners & Startups) for a document he could “use … as a basis for our feedback to Alan about potential SAP points of contact, relevant customer questions, real-world datasets etc.”
A month later, I dodged a query by SAP’s ************** for a copy by of the “book” I put together by offering to send it to him physically. When he asked for a digital copy, I sent him Aran’s compilation instead.
Another month, another query—like clockwork![0]—and this time it came from Alan Kay directly. I instructed him on how to print the PDF (double sided, “short-edge”), and finally got around to salvaging the JSON from a remote corner of my disk for to pop a digital web-version of the typewritten pages online.
Alan wrote:
This is nice, and, in a way, just right for Tanja ... the "flavor" is terrific, and the choice to use a low-res font for the one pages is just right (one of the fonts I did at Parc was a handwriting font for notes so they didn't look like a finished product ...)
All of the typewriter-style pages were manually typed using some idiosyncratic software I wrote while on the Trans-Siberian railway in 2013, as I was designing/prototyping the system we now call Seatbelt. It was interesting to re-type everyone’s one-page, not only because I got a deep understanding of what everyone was talking about, but also to make small editing choices as I was going—some punctuation, editing, and typesetting. There’s a different “touch” you can have when every character you press stays exactly where you put it.
The left-side pages were lexographically-ordered Hyperopia cross-references. Some of the juxtapositions were lovely.
At over 90 pages, this turned out to be a rather large project.
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