Heinrich Füger, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind

NEO RENAISSANCE

Reignite the Flames of Renaissance.

Neo Renaissance studies how psychology and systems thinking can turn complex knowledge into practical tools for human life. We look for the relationships that make things work, and build from there.

PL. I  ·  H. F. Füger, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, c. 1817

Raphael, The School of Athens, detail of philosophers gathered in conversation

PL. II  ·  Raphael, The School of Athens (detail), c. 1511

II Randomly A project by Neo Renaissance

What if reconnecting with people didn’t always require us to decide whom to contact?

PL. III  ·  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560

II The pattern

Hundreds of contacts. The same few conversations.

We have hundreds of people in our contact lists, yet we often speak to the same few. Not necessarily because we don’t care about the others, but because choosing whom to contact becomes a habit of its own.

I The problem

The list grows. The conversations don’t.

Every year adds names to your phone: a classmate, a neighbour, someone from that one trip. Then you open your messages and it’s the familiar few, again.

II The fix that wasn’t

So we sort people into groups.

Close friends, family, work, old school. It feels organised. But a group is only a shorter list, and we still reach for the same names inside it.

III The insight

The obstacle is the choosing.

Sometimes, the obstacle isn’t a lack of people to talk to. It’s the act of choosing. And when we choose, habit quietly chooses for us.

IV The idea

Let chance choose.

Randomly introduces chance into the process, helping people reconnect with old friends and widen their social circles.

The app

Inside Randomly

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IHome

Press pick.

Randomly chooses someone from the group you’re in. Then call, send a WhatsApp, or skip and choose again.

Randomly app home screen: press Pick to choose a random contact, then call, WhatsApp or skip
IIGroups

Everyone, or a few.

Pick from all your contacts, or from groups you make yourself: close friends, the gym, college friends.

Randomly app groups screen: pick from all contacts or custom groups like close friends, gym and college
IIIPrompts

Something to ask when you call.

Questions for an easy start, for when it’s been a while, and for old memories.

Randomly app prompts screen: conversation starters for reconnecting with an old friend
IVSettings

When to call, reminders, and who not to pick.

Set your hours and days, turn on a quiet daily nudge, and keep a don’t-pick list. Everything stays on your phone.

Randomly app settings screen: calling hours, daily reminder and a don’t-pick list
Try it

Habit, then chance.

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A project by Neo Renaissance

Randomly

An everyday habit, gently interrupted. Randomly leaves the choosing to chance, so reconnecting can start without a decision.

Step one · Get access Get Randomly for Android.

That account is how we give you access on Google Play. We'll email you the download link once you're added. Nothing else.
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PL. IV  ·  Raphael, The School of Athens, c. 1511

III Philosophy

Why do we exist?

Most problems come with solutions.

That's what makes them problems, not predicaments. Yet some are too complex for our minds to solve, while others needn't be solved by our minds at all. Our time, attention, and brainpower are limited. So why spend them on things that could be handled by something else?

A calculator, for instance, doesn't make us less intelligent. It frees us from spending our mental energy on calculations, allowing us to use it for something more meaningful.

At Neo Renaissance, we build metaphorical calculators for problems that shouldn't have to occupy our minds. We take complex knowledge and turn it into systems that are practical, executable, and easy to use.

We believe the mind should be free to wander, wonder, and create, without being constantly interrupted by unnecessary friction.

Fig. 1 — Where the attention goes an illustration
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Our mission

Our mission is to create a world with less friction, so the mind can spend less time figuring things out and more time doing something meaningful with them.

IV About & Contact

Tools that give the mind its time back.

Neo Renaissance studies how psychology and systems thinking can turn complex knowledge into practical tools for human life.

We build metaphorical calculators: small systems that take unnecessary friction off the mind, so it can be spent on something meaningful. Randomly is the most recent.

The person behind Neo Renaissance Jaifin VJ Personal portfolio Get in touch neorenaissance344@gmail.com
Neo Renaissance Reignite the Flames of Renaissance.
PL. I — H. F. Füger, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, c. 1817
PL. II — Raphael, The School of Athens (detail), c. 1511
PL. III — Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560
PL. IV — Raphael, The School of Athens, c. 1511
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