about Trove

Honestly, I just want to make the world a better place.

A place where we can be authentic, where we flourish with the right people beside us for the ride.

read my (non-AI) writing

a note from the founder

Hi, I’m Helen.

Many people have said I’m a utopian thinker, and yah yah maybe I am. SO WHAT. SUE ME (just kidding please don’t).

But yeah, there are a few questions I can’t stop thinking about:

What does a resume of the future look like?

How do we keep our human edge in an era of AI?

How do we go beyond the labels we’re so used to describing ourselves with?

How do we have more reliable signals of who one another is?

How do we build technology with a long-term view, by actually considering its impacts on everyday people?

Those are the things I started noodling on with my last company in experiential education (where our students did more than 750,000 hours of hands-on learning!). And they’ve become the things I want to figure out with Trove.

I hope you’ll join me for the ride (and have fun doing it!).

Team & Supporters

SVP of whimsy

Henrietta

Loves designing and building things that keep working when the world gets messy. Featured on national TV, a couple of awards. Trove matters because who you are is the messiest problem there is. Whimsically bouncing off the walls 24/7 without even needing coffee >:)

@hen on Trove

professional breaker of things

Suika

Ex-pilot license holder. Pivoted into Live2D animation, then landed at Trove breaking tangles before you do, editing, filing bugs. Re-tests a tangle at the slightest hint of something wrong going on, and doesn't stop until it's sorted. Has a mental folder of OC lore that's been WIP indefinitely.

@mellowcove on Trove

past, present, still helping

Many hands

Friends, testers, advisors, early believers, and people who offered a sharp thought at exactly the right moment. Their fingerprints are all over this thing.

from our notebook

notes from inside the questions

on taste, judgment & AI6 min read

Your moat is not tasteful

Real taste is one of the few things that does not survive being claimed out loud. It has to be shown—in motion, under pressure, when you have to commit.

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on self-knowledge, bias & play7 min read

You don’t really know yourself

We are too close to ourselves. Everything we notice is colored by our own lens, our ego, and our surroundings. What if knowing yourself required play?

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