I'm an AI developer at the intersection of immersive and emergent storytelling. I help novelists, game designers, and filmmakers vividly imagine their worlds through a set of custom tools I've developed.
❤️💣 Mission: Reconnect With An Old Friend
Reconnect With An Old Friend
The Background
This month I'm pivoting my career a little bit, going from a boring old marketing director to a freelance creator again - something I've really missed in my life. This time, instead of building new things on the social web, I'm becoming an AI developer, with a specialty in new forms of storytelling with all the new tools and possibilities open to us.
I'm also re-opening my personal email list, which has been dormant for 8 years. It's going to be mostly work stuff - AI ideas and projects and the like - but I'm sure I'll do a personal post every once in a while. You can check out what I'm up to here: Storytelling in the Age of AI, and then if you want to get on my personal email list, you can sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of that post, or you can click the button right here. See some of you soon!
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The Mission
Take a moment this week to reconnect with an old friend. Send a text, make a phone call, grab coffee. Just take some time to reconnect with someone who helped you get where you are today.
Let's take a step back, and keep old relationships growing too in the middle of new and exciting life moments. Let me know who you reconnected with if you feel like it!
-Nate
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Nate St. Pierre
I'm an AI developer at the intersection of immersive and emergent storytelling. I help novelists, game designers, and filmmakers vividly imagine their worlds through a set of custom tools I've developed.
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