@usbnorm

co-founder @usbclub (acq.) • educator @campuscomplex • prev. concepting @plaid & advanced concepts @tfh_technology

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Joined August 2011
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Norm@usbnormMay 4
Excited to announce a new steward for USB Club. A big day for memory, for connection, for shared presence. Grateful to everyone that continues to make it a meaningful place to belong.
Yatú@thecpeMay 4
USB Club has been acquired. Memory & Hardware is starting to matter again. We’ve been building for that moment. ↓ Learn More ↓
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Introducing Tapkit Tapkit is a Mac app that lets your agents use your iPhone. Tell it to do anything and it can use your phone to do it. We've been iterating on Tapkit over the last few months with our earliest users and finally feel like it's ready for general use. Today it is easy to use, supports any agent, and can even use multiple iPhones at the same time. There are so many great things that we can do with this new primitive, but I didn't want to wait any longer to share it with you. Try it now: tapkit.ai
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Yatú@thecpeSep 25
Discover a new way to ground your sense of time with the Paragonday Systems Norm & I will be speaking today at The Protocol Institute Symposium More details below
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@keikreutlerSep 22
The Protocol Symposium is underway this week. It began on Monday with workshops, and the kickoff talk happens tomorrow. On Friday, there will be a special Art of Memory track, featuring talks by some of the Memory Research Group contributors: Ayşe Demir @aysedemird_ Ruthvik Peddawandla @ruthvik947 Norm O'Hagan @usbnorm, Yatú Espinosa @thecpe, and Benji Shankwitz Neilson Koerner-Safrata @neilsonks & myself
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I'm never not careering
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psa that you can always hop on the careering train at careering.life/theory swerve on folks

Welcome to the Careering Fairgrounds

A home for new roles

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@marlouiiseAug 13
Careering > Career Careering: having way more fun, non linear, trying things, sometimes driving in donuts, learning, you might arrive somewhere unexpected Loved this framing and talk from @usbnorm at Open Tab hosted by @belindahuang and @noondesign
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Yatú@thecpeJul 31
Accepting rolling applications now for class of 2026 sfnyc.org This group has quietly grown into a safe place for New Yorkers in SF
Yatú@thecpeJul 22
🗽 SFNYC 🌉 If you, or someone you know Is a New Yorker who likes SF or an SF person who New Yorkers like Please apply to be part of the official SFNYC class of 2026 idk how much longer i can keep curating people from both coasts but i think i got one more push in me for this year sfnyc.org
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Yatú@thecpeJul 22
🗽 SFNYC 🌉 If you, or someone you know Is a New Yorker who likes SF or an SF person who New Yorkers like Please apply to be part of the official SFNYC class of 2026 idk how much longer i can keep curating people from both coasts but i think i got one more push in me for this year sfnyc.org
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Today we're launching Era and announcing $11M in funding. We're building the intelligence layer for a new ecosystem of AI devices — the platform that lets any device manufacturer, brand, designer, or creator make objects that think, respond, and act in their own style. We're entering a Cambrian explosion — new form factors, new creators, new objects worth desiring. Made by people who've never had the tools to make them, before today. Welcome to the new Era. Backed by @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @topology_vc, @betaworks, @CollaborativeFund, @MozillaVentures, and @AIResidency.
Era
@eraworldsApr 23
We’re officially in our new Era.
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Benji@benjibikesMar 26
A Waymo headed to the sunset brought me to the weatherspace of a new kind of labor which I call, Generative Pressure: the work of introducing, managing, and pushing context in a material-less space.
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Yatú@thecpeMar 12
Made a product that lives alongside something Virgil created Still doesn’t feel real
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Yatú@thecpeFeb 27
Just came across this Cool to hear @jacksondahl & @broskoski from @AREdotNA bringing up Norm & I on @DialecticPod On blending art + business in real decisions Clip below
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This week, with @mozilla and @usbclub we launched intelligence.family - a speculative design piece exploring the potential of local LLMs for protecting and preserving our precious family memories, stories and heritage. Explore the research here → & read on 🧵

Family Intelligence

AI that runs in your home, your office, your hand. We're starting with families.

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bringing memories back home
garden3d@garden3d_netFeb 4
AI could help preserve the next millennium of family heritage — but only if those memories stay at home. Today we’re releasing intelligence.family, a speculative design project by @usbclub and garden3d, co-presented with the Mozilla Foundation.
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find the sourceware
Yatú@thecpeJan 22
Hardware isn’t slow because it’s hard. It’s slow because it’s far away. Shenzhen. A new hardware class. Shorter feedback loops. Record of Thought 006: ↓ "Signal to Source" ↓
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The last couple months we've been working with @usbclub to compile our research into the feasibility and design thinking around building hardware devices running local LLMs. We just published the piece on Substack, but here's the seed that got us started: garden3d.substack.com/p/wher…
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Yatú@thecpe24 Sep 2025
Record of Thought: Augmenting Education A new set of ingredients for campuses and careers. An adaptation of our talk at FWB Fest, where we unpack our approach to pedagogy. With a glimpse into the beginning of my self-directed MBA journey.
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Exclusive Feature: soulseek.online Interview Bring Your USB: Born out of nightlife, USB Club imagines a new way to connect
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plz help me afford a real labubu
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