Ping Practice
About Method App People Transmissions
Back to Transmissions

What are other people pinging?

What are other people pinging?

Versions of this question continue to emerge in conversations with people who are pinging.1

Informed by the above, and inspired by an experimental short documentary Joanne2 wrote and directed, we began wondering:

What might a reflection-oriented publishing format look like?

A format that:

  1. Aligns with the openness we receive Pings with
  2. Inspires the reflection and meaning-making Ping Practice supports
  3. Enables the learning and connection that’s emerged in Practitioner Calls.

Pictured (and linked) below are some examples of an initial exploration into the above.

* In Practice
Tracing how Joanne crossed paths with Ping Practice

* Mendocino
Pings from April and May, 2025

* Bike Seat
Pings from June, 2025

So far, browsing each other’s Pings in this format has felt fluid and quiet.

I (Joanne) am finding the format to be quite intimate: Pings are afforded the space to resonate with one another, and our innermost expressions are exhibited with care.3

I (Peter) have noticed myself revisiting pings differently knowing there is a clear and inspiring form to relate and present them with.4

What about for you? 5

Now, getting back to where this Transmission started.

We would like to use this format to experiment with a way to learn:

What are other people pinging?

If you are up for it, here's how it will go:

  1. Revisit the Pings you captured using the app between January 1 and February 28, 2026
  2. As you browse these Pings, notice which resonate, and take screenshots of those that do
  3. Visit this Google Form and upload up to 5 of the Pings you screenshotted by Friday, April 10th.
  4. We (Joanne and Peter) will then review all of the Pings and publish a selection of them using the format demonstrated above
  5. That's it

Thank you for being open to this prospect.

* Let’s see *

  1. “Am I doing this ‘right’?” What can 'pinging' actually look like? What might I learn from how other people are pinging? Who else is pinging?”

  2. Joanne is a creative producer, writer, and publisher of projects that bring curious connections into orbit through the senses.

  3. “Guard the mysteries! Constantly reveal them!” – Lew Welch, “Theology”

  4. "Storage and retrieval are fundamentally different from remembering, which is a narrative process." – Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics

  5. What (if anything) came up as you scrolled these? Might you have seen something within these that felt like an immediate 'Yes'"? Anything that gave you pause? Whatever the case, we'd be eager to hear: everyone@pingpractice.org
Thank you for experiencing this transmission —
From: Joanne Lam & Peter Pelberg
Began on: January 23, 2026
Sent on: March 27, 2026
Last edited on: March 27, 2026

Would you like to receive Transmissions — our ongoing notes created in tandem with the development of Ping Practice — inside your e-mail inbox? It is possible:

“Transmissions” ↑