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Session 1 — Orientation
This first session is about calibration: getting your sense of what computers and AI can do today onto the same page as reality.
You will not leave this session with a project. You'll leave with a question rattling around your head, and — we hope — a different relationship with the device in your pocket.
What to bring
Nothing. No laptop required. No installs. No accounts.
Come ready to watch, ask questions, and think.
What we'll do together
The session has roughly four parts:
- Why this class exists. The gap between what technology can do and what people are doing with it, and why right now is an unusual moment.
- The flip. Your computer is not a fixed set of apps with bugs you have to live with. It's a programmable, instructable machine. Once you see it that way, you can't unsee it.
- Live demos. Real things, solving real friction, in front of you. We'll be typing, correcting, and iterating on stage — not because we're showing off, but because seeing the human in the loop is the part that demystifies it.
- The seed question. Where in your life is there friction because technology has never been pointed at it for you? We'll talk about it together. You don't have to have an answer.
What you'll take home
One assignment, if you want to call it that:
Notice friction this week.
Pay attention to the things you do on a computer or a phone that feel tedious, repetitive, or "this should just work." Write a few of them down. Don't filter — even silly ones.
Bring whatever you have (or don't have) to the next session. We'll start working from there.
After the session
If a thought stuck with you and you want to talk about it before next time, reach out to either of us. That's what we're here for.
See ../personal-project.md if you want to read more about where this is all going.