#ideas/software i kinda want to make a website / letter to people to tell them / or maybe i compile all the diff ways i told them and compile anon samples of what people said to me after
- “guide to being laid off” - ways to tell someone you’re close to that you got laid off - things that people say to you when you are laid off
- layoff reflection
talking with crystal li about it
- compelling to have a central story weaving through it
- could animate them coming in and out
participatory experience?
- create a personal experience (tool)
meh - anchor around a personal but shared experience and you can add some of your own just for yourself and for helping people who did not get laid off understand wh
- at it is like
prompting questions
- being laid off is like…
- having the rug swept out from under you
- finding an empty water bottle you thought to be full
- what corporate speak lingers with you…
- what caring words stay with you…
design collaborators, should probably be people who have experienced this?
questions for when you’ve been laid off and you were already feeling some dissatisfaction with your job before
(and you have the privilege to not immediately need to look tor a new job due to your immigration status or savings or otherwise)
- treat this severance as a bet from the world on you to do what you love and think matters
- when do you feel lightness of being
- what makes you feel generative
take inspo from the 10 creative rules? and “twelve questions”