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Day 24 — I found the courage to hold the whole coin. WED Something happened today. This may be one of the central discoveries in the book. Reality has two sides that human beings spend enormous energy trying to reconcile. Beauty. Wonder. Love. Birth. Music. Kindness. Mystery. And on the other side: Pain. Hardship. Loss. […]

Day 10 — I stopped treating correction as injury. WED Something happened today. One of the unexpected advantages of talking with an artificial intelligence is that I can push back hard and nothing gets personally wounded. I can say, No, that is not what I mean. I can say, I hate that wording. I can […]

Day 8 — I discovered the question behind the question. MON Something happened today. One of the patterns that became clearer in these conversations was how often I started with a problem and ended somewhere else. A practical problem would appear. How do I fix this? Why is this happening? What should I do next? […]

Day 64 — We were trying to estimate the size of the book and discovered that the answer depended on what we meant by size. MON Something happened today. Words. Characters. Physical dimensions. Font size. Public pages. Source pages. White space. Paragraph spacing. A book is apparently very bad at being one number. I liked […]

Day 4 — Loneliness stopped being only a problem. THU Something happened today. A few days before some of these conversations, I had been deeply lonely. The question in my head was familiar: How do I make this stop? That question makes perfect sense. Pain asks for relief. Put your hand on a hot stove […]

Day 61 — I made a salad and one of the tomatoes came from the greenhouse. FRI Something happened today. That is pretty much the story. I had spent the day inside big ideas, systems, stories, plugins, companies, problems, all the usual mental traffic. Then there was a bowl on the counter with vegetables in […]

Day 49 — Somebody else spent several minutes focused on a part of my story that I had begun to take for granted. SUN Something happened today. During my meeting with Jody, I explained the Walmart ban. I had returned two orders after becoming sick. The store had banned me from pickup. There were rules, […]

Day 44 — My car battery died at almost exactly the wrong time and somehow the morning still worked. TUE Something happened today. I had an appointment with Jody at Ignite. I had been up late getting material ready. I finished printing with maybe five minutes to spare. I went out to the car, turned […]

Day 2 — The little treat turned into a stew bone. TUE Something happened today. Not every discovery disappears after the first bite. Some of them stay with you. You turn them over later. You remember them while driving. They reappear in another conversation. Something happens three days later and suddenly the earlier thought has […]

Day 37 — I realized that somebody can be capable of doing much more and still be completely right not to do it. TUE Something happened today. This came out of thinking about D2. In our little imaginary family, D2 has all the qualities you would need to build a serious business. He can find […]