AfterAI Weekly Vol.19 📚
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AfterAI Weekly Maker Faire Vol. 19 Bay Area 2025 Part 2 2025 p- of
Reading is Loving
At my booth, “Let’s Write and Share News Cards!”, many people wrote and shared various stories. Through the experience of running the booth for 3 days, I noticed that people became happy when I read aloud their cards and engaged in a chat with them. They joyfully shared more details so that I could vicariously enjoy one page of their unique lives.
Taking time to ruminate on one’s intimate news, carefully writing it down on a piece of card, and somebody else attentively reads it and sympathizes
- that’s when your life is requited. By listening to their stories, I was also feeling happy because they opened up and let me in. I must say our communication was suffused with love.
I re-learned the nature of love through this exhibit. That is: love doesn’t need money but is priceless, and love is contagious. Although the whole trip cost a lot and the flights were less than comfortable, I gained more. I’m glad if my booth rekindled the joy of handwriting in visitors’ daily lives because that is what I believe people need in the world after AI.
Happiness Love Attention Reading Trust Opening up
< My wife and I will have a baby in December. I wonder what it is like to watch my kid write a card.
After the Trip
It’s always sad to get back to the daily routines after a trip, but a bowl of tasty ramen lifts me up and keeps me going.
Father, warmly, watching his daughter Write her card.