Re-telling a familiar story

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I just received a shipment of new Sorapots, and opened ordering once again. The most exciting part of this for me is the feedback I’m going to get as more people use their Sorapots for the first time. Since Sorapot was just a sketch in my Social Psychology 135 notebook in college over two years ago, I’ve wanted the experience of using it to be more like reading a short story than operating a tool. Now that Sorapot’s an actual product, it’s exciting when others experience and then re-tell the story in their own words.

This week Elijah Nicolas, a commercial pilot and early Sorapot customer, posted a detailed unboxing of my design to his blog. It’s a strange, wonderful feeling to read how he interprets a project into which I’ve sunken so much thought over the last two years, having only encountered the physical endpoint of all my theorizing and revision. He shows how single points of contact with the design- the box’s texture, the scroll format for the instructions, the teapot’s finish and weight- add up to form an overall narrative. Elijah’s Sorapot unboxing

Heather Ann Snodgrass did something similar with her recent article, “Brewing Sorapot” for Behance. She contacted me with basic questions about challenges I’ve faced, how I manage my time, etc, to which I gave excited, yet basic answers. As you’ll see when you read her article, she wove these disparate points of information together into a story that richly summarizes my path with Sorapot, current thinking about design and entrepreneurship, and plans for the future, in a way that I never could. Brewing Sorapot

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