Why I'm writing this weekly
Three things this journal is, and one thing it isn't.
It is a Friday check-in. Not a newsletter, not a launch announcement, not a "5 lessons from this week" listicle. Just whatever I was thinking about, written down. Some weeks will be about shipping. Some weeks will be about what I read, who I met, what I noticed while walking home.
It is honest in a way the rest of the site isn't. /thinking is technical architecture — useful, but edited for clarity. /founders is curated knowledge — useful, but built for an audience. /journal is the messy middle. I write about mistakes, doubts, family stuff when it matters, things I changed my mind about, things I'm still figuring out. The signal-to-noise is lower. That's the point.
It is short. Most posts will be 500-800 words. Some will be 200. A few might be 1500 if something really matters. If I can't say it in 800 words, I probably don't know what I think yet.
It is not a substitute for therapy, mentorship, or friendship. I have all three. /journal is what I'd write if I were a slightly more public version of myself — still private, but with a wider table.
Why weekly? I tried monthly and it rotted. Daily was a fantasy. Weekly is the cadence where one post is a small enough commitment that I'll actually do it, and frequent enough that I can't get away with a single throwaway line. Friday is good because the week is done and I have something to say about it.
If you read this, expect a different register than /thinking. The technical posts are for engineers evaluating my craft. The founder hub is for operators evaluating my judgment. This is for people who want to know what it's like to be a particular person building particular things in a particular city at a particular time. That's a smaller audience. It's also the one I most want to keep.
Three posts today to launch. One is a candid failure I rarely talk about. One is the behind-the-scenes of shipping this site. One is what I'm reading. The rest will be whatever I think next Friday.
See you in a week.