Live status · 2026-W23 · updated 2026-06-01
What I’m actually working on this week.
The Sunday digest is the broadcast. The monthly State of GitHub is the long-form. This is the in-between, five fields, updated every Monday. Status, not face. Convention borrowed from nownownow.com.
01 · Shipping this week
- Shipped a full conversion pass on signals.gitdealflow.com: killed a fabricated value-stack on /methodology-partnership, fixed the 'free → €7' link mismatches, and put the voice (and the right author tag) back on ~75 programmatic pages that had started reading like faceless SEO.
- Right behind it: localized the subscribe prompt on the non-English pages, cut the multi-button clutter on /research, /receipts, /origin and the weekly Top-100 down to one clear next step, and folded the duplicate tweet-teardown product back into /teardown.
- On the data side: unsubscribes now propagate to the subscriber store, and the Sunday digest carries a one-click HTTPS unsubscribe header.
02 · Reading
What’s open in tabs.
- Reader replies from the two daily batches, still the cheapest place the next methodology fix comes from.
- The conversion-audit backlog: which faceless surfaces still need the plain-English, no-code-required treatment.
03 · Blocked
What’s stuck and why.
Publishing the blocker keeps the cadence honest. If I keep writing “blocked” for a thing every week, that’s a real signal, please DM me about it.
- Auto-refreshing this /now page from real commit activity. Until that's built, the page only stays current if I update it by hand, which is exactly the kind of thing this section exists to admit.
04 · Parking lot
What’s next, when bandwidth opens.
Not a roadmap. A backlog of things I want to ship and have decided not to ship yet. Listed publicly so I can’t quietly drop them.
- The long tail of the conversion audit: the i18n depth pass and the remaining CTA-sprawl trims on secondary pages.
- Grading the first 60-day windows on the public /predicted picks as they come due on /scorecard.
- A member-public /wins/[handle] profile per consenting subscriber, drafted, still not shipped.
05 · Weekly rhythm
What every week looks like, week after week.
The cadence is the character. If a Monday digest doesn’t arrive, something broke; if every Monday digest is on time for twelve months, the rhythm is real.
- Monday
- Sunday digest goes out · /predicted refresh
- Tuesday
- Reply batch · grading-window check on prior week's picks
- Wednesday
- Long-form essay (alternating Substack / dev.to) · methodology refinement
- Thursday
- Reply batch · panel-data audit
- Friday
- Friday Preview ships · /scorecard refresh
- Saturday
- Off, no email replies, no commits, no public surface changes
- Sunday
- Sunday digest pre-flight · the next week's /now update queues
06 · Twelve months from now
Five public commitments. Graded 2027-05-09.
The character has to project a future or it’s a static pose. The five public commits below get graded one year from publish (2027-05-09). Either kept or admitted-broken-with-reason. No third option.
Commit 1, Still anonymous.
No founder face, no real voice, no real-name media tour. If a podcast audience grows by 100K through breaking the rule, the rule still holds. The whole product rests on whether this commitment is kept; the day it breaks is the day the methodology has to compete with personality, and it loses.
Commit 2, Twelve State-of-Engine addresses on the record.
One per month, every month, May 2026 → April 2027. Each one with a falsifiable prediction graded the following month. Twelve in a row is the cadence proof, eleven is a project, twelve is a practice.
Commit 3, /scorecard published with at least 80 weekly picks graded.
Twelve months × 4-5 weekly picks per Sunday = ~52 grading windows by May 2027. Hit/Miss/Pending public, no curation. If the published precision drops below 60% across the panel, the price drops with it, the credibility chain has to hold both directions.
Commit 4, One additional methodology author on the SSRN paper.
Co-author named, credit shared. Not because the work needs help (it doesn't) but because a methodology that lives in one anonymous head is one regression-rewrite away from breaking. A second name on the next preprint version is a continuity commitment to the buyer.
Commit 5, Insider Circle at 200 paid members or the price drops.
Founding-member rate locked at €97/mo until 200 active subscribers, then a 60-day notice and a public price hike. The cohort closes when the math closes. Members who joined early stay at the locked rate forever.
07 · Where to follow the work
The status is public. The signal has a price.
If this rhythm is worth following, the broadcast version is the free Sunday Acceleration Watch one email a week, the sharpest acceleration break, no code required to read it. Start there.
When you want to go deeper than the digest: the €7 First Look is one full sector dive you keep, and the pricing page lays out the rest of the ladder. No rush, the free digest is the honest place to decide whether the rest is worth it.
The Data Nerd (Reluctant Reporter) writes for First Movers “We move on the engineering signal before the round, without reading a line of code.”
- → Read the full character bible (archetype, polarity, parables, voice rules, flaws, touchpoints).
- → Read the manifesto (seven pillars, named enemy, who’s on the bus).
- → Read the parables (six teaching stories, each a hyperlinkable standalone page).
- → Subscribe to the Sunday digest (free, weekly, the broadcast version of this rhythm).