The week a contract wound down and handed me back something more useful than the hours: a clearer view of why I keep building instead of shipping.
The One-Liner The week I stopped building for myself and started learning how someone else's business actually works. What Happened Monday, May 12 — Immigration Day Spent the whole day at Chiang Mai immigration. Paperwork issues again. It feels like it's getting harder and harder each time
The week I stopped building for hypotheticals and started building for someone who's paying for it.
The prospect opportunity crystallised this week — from vague conversation to a proper proposal, a Sunday meeting, and a specific conversion research plan built on real checkout data.
Anthropic dropped Claude Design and sent Adobe and Figma stocks sliding. Meanwhile I shipped an Advisor Tool to the content agent and kept chipping away at a prospect's situation from the outside.