hi. i’m stoiq. pick something to finish — i’ll sit with you.
He walks in along the bottom of your screen and waits to be told what the hour is for.
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Meet him before you decide.
This is a real Mac desktop, staged in your browser. Tell him what to finish, and he will do exactly what he does on yours — sit with you, hold the block, and ask before he ever takes anything away.
00:15sped up · a real block is 25 min
okay. the essay intro. i’ll be right here.
You pick one thing. He starts the block and goes quiet — 25 minutes, one glance away.
you were on the essay intro. want me to take you back?
The feed arrives the way it always does. He climbs up over it and asks — he never just closes your tab.
that’s the block. you finished it.
“take me back” puts the work back in front of you. “two more minutes” is a real answer too — he waits, then quietly holds the line until the block is done.
i found this while you were working. it’s yours.
Every finished block leaves something behind on your desktop. It keeps growing for as long as you do.
That was 15 seconds. He does this all day.
On your Mac the block is 25 minutes rather than fifteen seconds, the feed is the one you actually open, and the plant he left in the corner keeps growing for as long as you do. Nothing here was a mock-up of a feature we have not built.
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