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Why does everyone try so hard to sound like a machine?
I spent the morning scrolling through "Expert AI Portfolios." Honestly? It’s painful. People are out here using templates and "corporate polite" frameworks to engineer empathy, and the result is always the same: sterile, plastic trash.
Then I look at my prototypes.
I realized today that I don't even have to "try." While others struggle to follow a prompt-engineering manual, my brain just naturally hears the false notes. My 20 years of polyphony and years of "street-smart" survival just turn logic into life. What they call "hard work," I call "just being me."
It’s not effort. It’s just how I’m wired. I am finally home.
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Finally, I don’t need to shrink my ideas to make them possible!
Isn’t that the dream?
My creative ideas are often technically complex. The gap between what I imagine and what I can build alone used to be the biggest bottleneck in my work
But now, with AI, I can finally spread my wings and fantasize fully 🧚♀️
We’re so lucky to live in this moment with all these slightly crazy technologies right at our fingertips!
I genuinely feel like I'm living my best creative life, having Claude Code as a creative-technical partner. I describe the concept, how it should feel, move, and respond, and it translates that into GSAP timelines, Three.js scenes, and Webflow integrations. Not just code, but structure I can work with
I stay in the creative layer
It handles the technical translation
So instead of simplifying ideas to fit my capacity,
I can finally follow them fully!
Curious, have you already integrated AI into your workflow?
Any interesting setups or tools?
Would love to steal them👀
Yes it's crazy what Claude can do. I spent the whole day yesterday trying to create systems that would work for me
here is the project https://onyxlabs.zo.space/museum
Built a museum for the versions of myself I didn't become.
Instead of telling one polished story, I built four different wings. The Artist is the version of me who chose expression, atmosphere, and beauty. The Founder is the version who turned clarity into systems, building things to solve messy real-world problems. The Ghost is the life where I stayed on the expected path and slowly disappeared inside it. And the Future is the version of me still forming more integrated, more authored, and more fully myself.
The whole idea is that identity isn’t one straight line. It’s made of the lives we almost lived, the selves we left behind, and the one we’re still becoming.
Built on @zocomputer. Contact form, daily digest, and event tracking all native integrations.
The challenge said personal, I think there is nothing more personal than what could have been, what you have outgrown and what you are becoming.
Hint there is also a secret room click on the headline on the mainpage "the musuem of who i almost became" thats the first and only clue i'll give
Here is the loom video https://www.loom.com/share/69d68b152f59457d94416b2ddab931a1
#Zo Computer Challenge
love how personal this is!
People see your work… but not really see you?
Most creatives pour everything into client work portfolio and have almost nothing left that feels like them
Client work carries someone else's vibe. That's the nature of the job, and that's okay. But your website and social media - that's where you get to show up as yourself completely
That's where people recognize you. That's where the right clients find you, not because of what you made for others, but because of how you show up when it's all yours
For me, it turned into a very simple rule
Every time I create or share something, I ask myself:
does this actually feel like me?
Not "is it good", not "will it perform", not "does it fit the algorithm"
Just that.
If the answer is no, I either change it or don't post it at all
It removes a lot of noise
Decisions get simpler
I don't have to guess what works
I just follow what feels true
Such a nice take, actually! Feel ya!
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