Loom

I almost named the company Loom. I liked the idea of how we’re interwoven with other people. We are the warp running though time, and many people in our lives are like the weft, crossing our paths for a while and sometimes terminating.

Some people come into our lives and create these thick bands of influence as we overlap and weave together, and some of them are only a thin band. However, those thin bands aren’t insignificant. Just like in a woven material, they matter. They affect the whole. They provide dimension. They provide color and texture that the rest of the weave builds on.

This is another reason I like the timeladder view because we can see how others have impacted us, and how we’ve shared moments with each other. We may have deeply connected or only shared a small amount of time, but they are there with us, a part of us.

You can see the influence in the way that Facet lines up time ladders with each other when you search for someone. Below you can see my timeladder with my wife and where we crossed over.

And below is one from an ex girlfriend from college, Jill. You can see our moments together at Georgia Tech and then when we reconnected after my dad passed away.

We cross into each others’ lives and affect one another, and we build these beautiful tapestries. It’s wild to be able to see it.