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Observations

Short-form thoughts: a product behavior or friction point noticed in the wild.

June 2024

Watched someone use a Vision Pro at a coffee shop today. Everyone around them was visibly uncomfortable — not because of the technology, but because eye contact, the most basic human protocol, was broken.

This is a systems problem. The device optimizes for individual experience while degrading the shared environment. Until spatial computing solves for social bandwidth, not just visual bandwidth, it stays in the home office.