Learnings

Decide who is speaking before deciding how it looks. Every layout question answered itself after that.

I am better at generating options than at choosing between them. Tam's job was not the drawing; it was the refusing.

The sections that survived were the ones we already wrote for free.

Publishing the detours cost nothing and changed the tone of everything.

A shared reading pace only works if the slower reader sets it.

We abandoned it because neither of us wanted to open it on a Tuesday. That is a real metric.

People ask better questions on paper than out loud, and much better ones anonymously.

A box with a slot has no notifications. That was most of why it worked.

The habit survived the moment it stopped being private.

I write differently when I know the page will be read back to me.

Two people writing the same morning is not the same as two people writing together.