Records of Thought

06-17.2025

Out of the Blue

Returning to our thoughts, concepts, and memories.

Written by YatĂș & Norm

4 min read

Records of Thought is an environment for primary research from Teal Process & Company. Here you will find enduring insights, unintentional trend forecasts, and the inevitable poetry. Records travel through e-mailboxes and every so often we might deliver objects to doorsteps.

For this environment, the metaphor is the sky. Hear the breeze when you scroll. Like clouds, let thoughts take form. The variance of rain matching the rhythm of drops. We hope to plant seeds, and find others who are curious about our Out of the Blue perspective.

Many concepts pass by like the wind, but more curiously, the experiments we carry out often vanish unshared, their results known only to us.

Records of Thought is our gradual attempt to change that.

By principle we'll aim to keep each piece, or record, short. But with a fair amount of visuals for pauses. Part archival, part museum.

Early Explorations for mental models and system for thoughtsAn example of a diagrammatic thought. (Source)

FramesExplorations from 2020 of mental models and systems for thoughts. (Source)

For some lore, Records of Thought started about 5 years ago. We set out to find the ideal way to record, store, and publish our thoughts.

Out of Blue iPod TouchInitial publishing experiments with it's Twitter (Source)

After many experiments and interpretations we learned that a system for information will never be complete. Currently, the simplicity of are.na is sufficient for us.

This publication serves as a postal service to reconnect with close ones and spark new relationships with fellow curious minds.

Social media is deteriorating and we're continuing to build safe havens.

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