The empty sky is the to-do list
I asked for the site as a sphere. Four rival designs and one adversarial review later, the map is parked until there's territory — and the one image that survived became a writing prompt.
Four decades of tech shifts — pre-internet, internet, mobile, cloud, now AI. This log keeps dated notes on the newest one as it unfolds, and on raising kids through it. Written for future me first; others overhear.
3 lit · 6 shelved · 10 unwritten — the empty sky is the to-do list
I asked for the site as a sphere. Four rival designs and one adversarial review later, the map is parked until there's territory — and the one image that survived became a writing prompt.
A routine SEO audit made the site countable — and the count said I'd lost the plot. What I froze, what I kept, and the tell I should have noticed earlier.
An annotated transcript of child-led learning: Socratic turn-taking with my daughter, and the scoped boundary where AI was allowed in.
The contract for this log: dated notes at two speeds, written for future me first.