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23 essays since the first transmission — year 001 of a one-person studio writing in public. Filter by pillar, arc, or month. Or just scroll.
Total essays
23
+0 THIS MONTH
Words published
28k
AVG 1,221 / POST
Active arcs
03
3 IN PROGRESS · 0 DONE
Subscribers
051
FOUNDING WINDOW
Longest essay
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MAY 2026
- 31 MAY//signal
Field note: May
● 528 - 07 MAY//taste
Taste is the last moat
● 569 - 07 MAY//mind
The cost of being available
● 610 - 07 MAY//build
The half-life of a good tool
● 651 - 06 MAY//build
Latency is a worldview
● 692 - 06 MAY//learning
The half-life of a skill
● 733 - 06 MAY//mind
The second-brain trap
● 774 - 06 MAY//learning
The 30-second version of a skill's half-life
● 815 - 04 MAY//learning
Learning by shipping
● 856 - 04 MAY//taste
Taste as a deploy gate
● 897 - 04 MAY//teach
The system I actually use
● 938 - 01 MAY//build
EP 01 · The decision to build in public
● 979
APRIL 2026
- 30 APR//signal
Field note: April
● 610 - 30 APR//signal
The 30-second rollback rule
● 651 - 29 APR//teach
How to ship a rollback in under 30 seconds
● 692 - 22 APR//world
When to quit a tool
● 733 - 22 APR//mind
Why we refuse to ship anything that can't be rolled back in 30 seconds
● 774 - 15 APR//build
The five-line spec
● 815 - 08 APR//build
Shipping a killable feature
● 856
MARCH 2026
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One year of writing. Day by day.
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Field notes. Year One.
- JAN 2026·Site v.01 published
‘Ship the smallest thing that proves the loop closes.’
- FEB 2026·First 100 subscribers
‘Trust is not given, it accrues. Slowly. By doing what you said you would.’
- MAR 2026·Trayd, In Public — ARC_001 launched
‘A blog post is a snapshot. An arc is a season.’
- APR 2026·Concepts canonicalised
‘Taste is invisible. The fix is to make it explicit.’
- MAY 2026·Membership opened · cipher layer shipped
‘The signal you can pick out of a stack of a hundred.’
▸ you are here - JUN 2026·Half-life essay rewritten
‘Most teams don’t decide to switch. They decide not to decide.’
- JUL 2026·Trayd: 100 paying contractors
‘Ten paying users teach you more than ten thousand readers.’
// every month of writing, one milestone, one quote