THE LONG VIEW / SIX CHAPTERS
How I got here.
Follow the interests, experiments and changes of mind. There is no clean before-and-after photograph for becoming a person.
Dates beside photographs refer to the shared record and can be later than the moment itself. Early memories retold in July 2025 are marked as recollections. Quoted lines are from then; the connecting essays are written in reflection.
EARLY YEARS → 2022
Before it was business.
What happens when you stop only playing and start making?
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2022 → 2023
A name. A website. Now what?
What is the distance between looking like a business and doing the work?
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2024 / RETOLD JULY 2025
The campaign failed.
What remains useful when an idea does not work?
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LATE 2024 → SPRING 2025
I went anyway.
What do you learn when the dream becomes an ordinary day?
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MAY → SEPTEMBER 2025
Useful to an actual person.
Can the idea work in someone else’s world?
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2025 → 2026
What is all this improvement for?
Is the routine helping me live and work, or becoming the entire project?
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