Throughlines Lab

An exploratory space for stories, technology, and narrative structure.

Experiment: Itera, an AI-powered thought partner.

The past week I have been building with Lovable. The project is a prototype of a strategic thought partner. The app has multiple different models and perspectives for you to use and provides strategic insights every 5 or so interactions. It’s still very much an MVP, but it’s free to use and I’d love it if you checked it out.

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Screenshot of the Itera website homepage outlining its four thinking modes: Strategy, Empathy, Creativity, and Storytelling, with a section on strategic insights and a call-to-action to get started.
Digital story map titled 'Amora' with interconnected stories about university life, including 'First Day at University', 'Meeting Your Mother', 'Late Night Study Sessions', 'The First Date', and 'Graduation Day', each with dates, descriptions, tags, and 'Listen to Story' buttons.

Experiment: Telling Life Stories Through A Directed Graph

Amora is an ongoing experiment with the purpose of exploring life stories through a dynamic directed graph.

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Exploring Photography Through MidJourney

As Midjourney continues to evolve the opportunity to generate real-life photos gets better and better. A photographer myself, this makes me uncomfortable, and also creative.

Young boy with curly hair eating vanilla ice cream cone on a pier at sunset.
A vast desert landscape with distant mountains under a dark, cloudy sky, with rain falling in the distance.
Weathered vintage sign with red lettering that says "Make The The Thing" hanging on a worn green wall.

AI Tools Currently Exploring

ChatGPT

Nanno Bananna

Midjourney

Gemini