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Danvers Fleury
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Interested in architecting & reshaping at the intersections of commerce, digital & society. Pro-democracy advocate. Horrible solar panel owner.

Building @ https://www.sociotechnica.org/
So, I spent two weeks trying to be my own personal executive assistantto build a stronger mental model of an AI admin. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! sociotechnica.org/notebook/lif...
Working My Life Into Burnout
A personal experiment in applying professional project management systems to personal life - and the surprising results.
sociotechnica.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Good news: In my pursuit of work life balance, the scale is balanced at 50 / 50.

Bad news: The scale can't handle this much weight.

Can all the latest AI model breakthroughs now save me from myself?

WorkSquared Labnote #5: sociotechnica.org/notebook/ove...
Can AI Cure My Addiction to Overcommitting?
Exploring how AI can help manage the balance between work and life when you're overcommitted to both.
sociotechnica.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Danvers Fleury
I saw a few larger resistance accounts sharing they were feeling discouraged because of all of the accounts who were blaming Dems for the murders in Minnesota. Pls know that the right deploys thousands of bot accounts to try to discourage us. It is a big part of their plan to get people to give up
June 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Many people get very little out of AI chatbots.

What if we applied old school "edtech" (Kay / Piaget / Bruner) to humanize the AI experience?

WorkSquared Labnote #4: sociotechnica.org/notebook/sym...
Beyond the Symbolic: Humanizing AI Tools
Exploring Alan Kay's UI design philosophy through the lens of Bruner's learning stages, from DOS to Snap Circuits to Claude Projects.
sociotechnica.org
June 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A 6 hour innovation sprint with Claude 4 Opus.

Maybe 4 days worth of work in 2023?

A play-by-play write-up with example prompts. sociotechnica.org/notebook/pla...
Innovation Session Planning using AI
How we used AI to plan an innovation session.
sociotechnica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I was seeking UI inspiration for an AI native workspace. Plot twist: the best UI education was in my childhood games. Join me on a nostalgic 16-bit journey through retro games that solve the complexity paradox better than most modern day apps: sociotechnica.org/notebook/ws-...
a tetris game has a score of 72664 and lines of 20
ALT: a tetris game has a score of 72664 and lines of 20
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June 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Listening to The Dirty Nill (Canadian Rock) at work today. It won't be long before this gets tariffed too, so need to get some reps in while it's cheap. linktr.ee/thedirtynil
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Free Rein To Passions out now!
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May 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Most of my corporate friends are afraid to publicly speak out or protest against Trump. I'm putting together a series of articles on how to quietly and conveniently resist by personally de-platforming from big tech. Future write up will be on firing Twitter ;) www.linkedin.com/pulse/concer...
Concerned about Autocracy? Click differently.
Spring 2025 - Weird in the USA These days, it's tough to be a U.S.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Sorry HAL, it's not me, it's you.

We gave an AI our credit card to trade NFTs, then had to fire our digital intern after 3 months. Here's what happened when we tried to make $5/day with AI agents...

🧵 A Q1 2025 Update from SocioTechnica
April 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM