working in tech is only becoming more difficult as the rapidly increasing gap between vision and execution dilutes the former and commodifies the latter

Today marks 1 year in LA. 🫡

i love that i have a fiance who makes furniture for our crib. like that is so fire. and they meet up with their friends to chop more wood together and make lattes.

Key.

Everything earned 🥇 London 2012 Olympian Erik Kynard Jr. received his high jump Olympic gold medal today in Paris.

2015.

We talk too much about 7-Eleven in Japan and not enough about 7-Eleven in Denmark.

WARPMODE is out now. As a part of the game players draw cards and respond to prompts to rethink social frameworks through Black Metatheories: Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. blackbeyond.metalabel.com/warpmode

This weekend at Pioneer Works' Press Play event you can meet the Metalabel squad, get in-person product walkthroughs, and explore some of the work released with us so far This Saturday and Sunday in Brooklyn Come say what's up! pioneerworks.org/programs/press…

Mood

sup! looking for a brilliant assistant/intern. must be LA-based, mobile, a self-starter w/ good taste and a good understanding of popular culture. somebody savvy w/ editing content is IDEAL if you know somebody who might be a good fit for this, lmk! LOS ANGELES BASED ONLY!

Nature has a way of humbling our plans.

Thinking nonstop about our family, friends, squad, and community in LA today A good mutual aid list for those who want to help 🖤docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

The fires in Altadena have displaced Black families from their homes. If you can help, here's a list of their GoFundMe's: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

The space between your taste and your technical ability is where the most interesting work happens.

Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.

Speaking at TED Talks this April to introduce a new Metalabel release and structure for creative cooperation !!!!!

A minimal website: → laurendorman.io (cc. Lauren Dorman) ﹋ ft/on mnmm.xyz