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45 lines
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# Session 1 — Orientation
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This first session is about **calibration**: getting your sense of what computers and AI can do today onto the same page as reality.
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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.
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## What to bring
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Nothing. No laptop required. No installs. No accounts.
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Come ready to watch, ask questions, and think.
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## What we'll do together
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The session has roughly four parts:
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1. **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.
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2. **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.
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3. **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.
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4. **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.
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## What you'll take home
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One assignment, if you want to call it that:
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> **Notice friction this week.**
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> 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.
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Bring whatever you have (or don't have) to the next session. We'll start working from there.
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## After the session
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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.
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See [`../personal-project.md`](../personal-project.md) if you want to read more about where this is all going.
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