Mirror Test

Writing

Notes from the people building Mirror Test.

Essays on honest feedback, anonymous reflection, and the strange, specific things friends notice about each other.

8 min read · April 2, 2026

What 1,000 anonymous answers about your friends actually look like

We read the first thousand mirrors. The patterns weren't what we expected — and they say more about how people see each other than any quiz ever has.

6 min read · April 18, 2026

The case against asking your friends "how am I doing?" directly

Direct feedback fails not because people are dishonest, but because the question is structurally wrong. Here's the structural fix we've been testing.

7 min read · May 1, 2026

On the ethics of an AI portrait of you, made from your friends' words

The product has a real ethical question at its center. Here's how we think about it, what we do, and what we won't do.

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