Billie is a bean from the Focus Friend app, launched last month for iOS and Android by Hank Green of assorted internet fame.

The app, called Focus Friend, features a smiling cartoon bean that encourages users to boost their productivity.

This week’s featured reads are “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” and “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor” by Hank Green.

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It's already the number one free app on the App Store, usurping ChatGPT, and has been downloaded over 100,000 times on the Google Play Store. All you do is spend time off your phone. The bean knits a ...

Alabama-Birmingham transfer Kam Shanks missed Arkansas’ first scrimmage Aug. 9 due to hamstring troubles, to which coach Sam ...

Green’s name is on the app, but in creating it, he worked with Honey B Games, a mobile game studio founded by Bria Sullivan, who left her role as a software engineer at Google in 2020 to launch the ...

Focus Friend is a new focus timer app released by YouTuber Hank Green that helps you focus using a cute cartoon bean ...

Hank Tierney, who built the Green Wave into a highly successful program, left to return to his roots at Archbishop Shaw. His ...

If you fail to stay focused, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ...

A viral TikTok account racked up hundreds of thousands of views, but the person in it was completely AI-generated. Here’s why ...

The $200 million renovation and refresh has begun in the resort's West Tower, with that work expected to wrap up in the fall.