a weekly sketch-dialogue about digital culture, AI, and design
reframing the familiar to find what's worth building
Aishwarya Khanduja (The Analogue Group) and Alex Komoroske (Common Tools) started Common Ground as a weekly experiment: one hour, a few bits and bobs, one unscripted conversation.
Each week, Aishwarya would bring in overlooked bits, tweets, quotes, a glitchy norm — and riff a reframe. Alex would respond, challenge, and thread it into something deeper.
What emerged is part zine, part research method, part design ritual. We’re still figuring it out — and that’s the point.
The experimental archive can be found here.
This season, we’re going public: each episode anchored by four artifacts, their reframes, and a conversation you can both read and watch.
N02 From Insight Porn to Printing Presses: Rethinking Cognition, Code, and What Deserves to Go Viral
N05 From Interpolation to Discernment: Rethinking Essence, Depth, and Scarcity
N07 From Pattern Match to Pattern Trap: Rethinking Resonance, Homeostasis, and Rewiring
N11 From Pattern Compression to Glass Platforms: Rethinking Specialists, Affordances, and “Workslop”