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“How do we scale that feeling that someone got a personal handwritten note” is really dystopian.
Alternatively, "a scalable way to bring a little bit of joy to many people" is actually nice & good.
(Handwritten, not a print)
There was a brilliant Twitter thread last year showing a project to "hand write" with cnc robots thousands of personalised letters for a mailout. They initially started off with off the shelf hand writing robots, but ended up building their own massive ones to increase speed and efficiency. https://mobile.twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/143888821947...
“How do we scale that feeling that someone got a personal handwritten note” is really dystopian.
Seems like a decent use case for Postpilot’s handwritten notes. I wonder if those would be as effective? [0] https://www.postpilot.com/
> Our all-new handwritten cards are created by our proprietary robots. We use real pens with real ink to write your cards with all the personality of a human hand. Good idea, until everyone starts using it and starts recognising the writing by the robot, then it becomes creepy instead.
Seems like a decent use case for Postpilot’s handwritten notes. I wonder if those would be as effective? [0] https://www.postpilot.com/
I’d be interested in learning more about just their handwriting tech and if they could parse it out from the rest of their printing and shipping process
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“How do we scale that feeling that someone got a personal handwritten note” is really dystopian.
Alternatively, "a scalable way to bring a little bit of joy to many people" is actually nice & good.
In a single naive interaction, sure, it may bring joy. But repeated at scale throughout society, it creates distrust by being insincere and devalues sincere expressions of kindness, harming everyone.
don't we know that since dale carnegie?
Here's the one that I got from my fave wine shop. No surprise they went out of business after putting all the effort into their schwag. https://imgur.com/bNUtLtV (Handwritten, not a print)
God, it's stuck in my head again.
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“How do we scale that feeling that someone got a personal handwritten note” is really dystopian.
The article itself isn't much better. Great way to turn a nice thing from "Aw, that's sweet" to "Ugh, another piece of emotionally manipulative advertising".