I just realized it’s been almost a month since I recorded an update. Well, we’re back from Switzerland and I’ve been carrying around a question.
The short version: I took 240 tokens and handed out 82. The reactions, every single time, felt far larger than the gesture itself.
The emotional weight of the interaction often feels larger than what logically “should” happen. For a long time I thought I was asking: Why do people react so strongly to something so small?
But now I think the question might be: What if the reaction isn’t to the object at all? What if the reaction is to interruption? To someone stepping outside the script. To being met not as a role, but as a person.
Because this isn’t new. And I think this realization is changing how I understand my own work. The visible thing hasn’t changed. I still make things. I still hand them out. I still start conversations, but the explanation underneath it feels different now…which is partly why I wanted to share the video.
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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