A Fish is Just a Fish - by Andre - curl.projects

The heart of the initial sketch I made in Taiwan had nothing to do with realizing Goals, or Reshaping The Internet, or anything towering and climactic like that. It was a reflection of how Taiwan made me feel - Present, and, maybe for the first time, at peace with myself. That sketch was me, nostalgic for the good old days as I was living them, wondering if a digital space could bring me back to that state of being, for a space to be designed for me and by me to have that specific experience of presence while writing, so that my words, relieved from the pressure to become sentences, would have the freedom to go wherever the cursor took them. Present is different from ‘Distraction Free’. Present doesn't permit displaying time, or autocomplete, or going back and forth between characters, words and lines. Displaying time (with a clock that counts time up, or a timer that counts time down) isn't present - time displays remind you of what needs to be done, of what hasn't been done,

The heart of the initial sketch I made in Taiwan had nothing to do with realizing Goals, or Reshaping The Internet, or anything towering and climactic like that. It was a reflection of how Taiwan made me feel - Present, and, maybe for the first time, at peace with myself. That sketch was me, nostalgic for the good old days as I was living them, wondering if a digital space could bring me back to that state of being, for a space to be designed for me and by me to have that specific experience of presence while writing, so that my words, relieved from the pressure to become sentences, would have