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Slip exits

🧾 22 ways out

The gumball machine hands you a paper slip. When the tray fills up, the oldest one has to go. These are the candidates. Press Play, or double-click a stage. A few run real shaders and a cloth mesh; the rest are paper, clones, and gravity.

Done

✔ ten ways out
2businesses I own, a farm and a software company

01 Eraser

Works one patch at a time, with motes drawing in around the block as it rubs, then the blank sheet is brushed off.

$33k2026 CSA sales through my farm's Shopify store

02 Confetti

Swells, shrinks, and pops in a wink; the sheet comes apart from the pop, motes and all.

<$40to have AI describe 5,000 farm photos and videos

03 Flip to blank

Flips to blank, motes burst out of both edges as it slams back down, then it slides off the desk.

~300seed varieties a year, ordered by software built in Excel

04 Roll up

Rolls up left to right and keeps rolling off the page; a pop from the edge of the screen when it is gone.

$0.002to parse one seed listing with AI

05 Shredder

Twelve strips fall on their own clocks, and a mote rises from where each one leaves the bottom.

51%fewer overloaded haul trucks after the recalibration I drove

06 Fold and wink

Folded in half six times, faster and faster, down to a little packet that winks out in a pop of colored rays.

40k+members of the Udacity alumni community I built

07 Crumple

A spring mesh gathers into one big wad and gets tossed; a splash up from where it left the screen.

6companies you'd recognize that I've worked for or with

08 Black hole

The hole opens on the right and pulls as it grows, harder the bigger it gets, feeding on colored rays, then winks out.

2ndMeta ad campaign I ever ran, and it sold my farm's CSA

09 Gust

Motes of wind blow in and swirl past, more as the gust builds, and the swoop takes it with a fan of them.

5,000+farm photos and videos made searchable with AI

10 Tear in half

A jagged wedge of the ground opens down the tear line from the top as the halves ease apart, motes riding the rip, then the halves see-saw down.

Rejects

✖ nope
138plantings across 92 beds, scheduled by software built in Excel

11 Burn into a black hole

The burn front and the pull at once: what the fire loosens, the hole takes.

220seed companies catalogued for one seed search

12 Dissolve

Noise threshold with a glowing edge. The snap.

60%of haul-truck loads out of compliance at the world's largest copper pit, when I first checked

13 Soak

Wet patches spread, the ink runs, the paper goes limp and clear.

26database tables modeling a whole mine, built solo

14 Crumble

Goes old and brown, then flakes away from the bottom up.

10+developer education programs I've built for Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Udacity

15 Paper plane

Folds down the middle and swoops off.

~16×my estimate of the true return on my farm's ad spend

16 Vacuum tube

A tube drops in, the slip stretches and gets sucked up it.

50–90crops my farm grows in a season

17 Trapdoor

The floor opens, the slip drops through.

4seasons my farm ran on software built in Excel

18 Filed

A slot opens and the slip slides in on edge.

90%of Unity Asset Store walk cycles beaten by an AI-rigged elephant

19 Chomp

Bites from the right edge until nothing is left.

18 moa data field sat silently broken before I caught it

20 Zip

Squashed to a line, the line to a dot, the dot pops.

110°Mojave heat the summer I learned to code

21 Burn

Too physical for the page. The page is flat; this is a photograph.

20+mine sites I've worked at

22 Shatter

Paper does not shatter.