I want to make something very clear about this place.
You don't need another person telling you that your life is broken.
And I don't need another person telling me I'm brilliant.
That takes a lot of pressure off the arrangement, doesn’t it?
Now we can get on with the much more interesting business of being curious together.
You're welcome to read every page. Or one page. Or none, if you've somehow arrived here by accident and have better things to do.
You can agree. Disagree. Send a letter. Or wander away and spend the afternoon doing something that makes you happy.
We're cool either way.
It isn’t a technique to get you to lower your guard.
Because if I need to sneak past your judgment to make this work, I’ve already built the wrong kind of thing.
It's the whole point.
If I can make something delightful enough to be worth your attention, that's wonderful.
If some of the ideas help you do something you care about, even better.
And if the little world I've built becomes something other people want to return to, support, or contribute to—well, that sounds like a hell of an adventure.
But we're not making anyone smaller to make it happen.
Here's to the fascinating business of being alive.
And just between us, the reason this matters goes a little deeper than marketing.
I left a small note off the usual path about that. No sign-up required. It just seemed worth leaving somewhere.