The construction record
Building in the open means publishing the parts that are not finished. Four streams, written while the work is happening rather than after it succeeded.
- What was built this week.
- What we chose, and what it cost.
- Arguments still being had.
- What became real.
- The public site foundation is liveThe token layer, motion system, primitives and narrative spine are in place. Everything else now inherits from them.
- The economy is a line, not a leaderboardLearn, build, prove, earn, own. The value has to travel back to the person who created it, or the sequence is a lie.
- Why we publish what is not finishedMost products hide the gap between the promise and the build. We decided to publish the gap instead.
- Week one: the pointThe first thing built was not a page. It was a decision about what a single point on a screen is allowed to mean.