Talking about constraints of platforms, I was trying to comment via mobile and was interested to learn that apparently Medium doesn’t let you comment via mobile unless you download the app. Interesting choice, Medium. An interesting exercise in unpacking what drives a platform to build in a constraint, is it a user decision or a business one?

I like this experiment in breaking constraints, one of my favorite things is when users break and test the limits of the systems that designers set up. Like when people use the entire instagram grid as a canvas, rather than each individual picture (like this guy http://blog.instagram.com/post/140118848177/160227-caseymcperry ) or even the potato salad kickstarter guy, who managed to create a kickstarter that wasn’t about the thing itself, but about the performance of a kickstarter campaign as a comedy act. Bringing more handwriting to a digital platform is an interesting concept, and I like it. I’m curious, are you leaning more towards exploring creating a new platform that encourages this sort of expression (something that would probably end up new and different constraints of its own, drawing the boundries elsewhere) or is it more the breaking of constraints that other systems impose?