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Wednesday, October 14 · Day 14 of 31 · Wawa Wednesday

Asked and answered.

*August 13, 2025, I emailed 33 people: what we’d done, what we were doing, what came next. And at the bottom, a donate button. Today the company ran a Look Back on that email. That one’s the polite version. This is mine.

What I said, what I did

The scoreboard.

4Done
1Under way
1Let go
Done

Evolutions

What I’m tentatively calling our structured habit formation framework. Tentative no more. Day 14 of No Tricks runs on it, in public.

Done

Run the business on it

Makes sense to me to run the business the same way. Today the company ran its own Look Back.

Done

Harrisburg

Next Saturday, I’m headed to Harrisburg to instruct MS in Techpreneurship students. Without a way to get there. Got there. Taught through Winter 2026.

Done

The ask

Click to Donate via Stripe. The Stripe link sells something now: Look Back with the Coach, $10.06.

Under way

Money

Eight months without meaningful income. Then a six-month Comcast contract, December to June. Mine. Then back to it.

Let go

The patent

I also confirmed submission of our provisional patent application. Let it lapse. Details below, because I earned them.

April 2025 to November 2026

Twenty months, one contract.

Comcast contract Car sold The email Housed App Store Today Rocky Run Apr 2025Jan 2026Nov 2026 no contract contract
The patent

The legwork.

  1. Pro bono intake, Penn State Law Intellectual Property Clinic.

  2. Penn State Harrisburg’s LaunchBox introduces me to Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

  3. Patent & Trademark Resource Center, Free Library of Philadelphia.

“Great idea, indefensible patent.”

*The provisional: an AI-driven longitudinal behavioral coaching system on local commodity hardware. “Everyone is literally doing exactly what my provisional was for.”

What I said, Wawa Wednesday

How do I think I did?

I got the Comcast contract (independent of anyone on this email and by the sweat of my brow like every other fucking thing) and got myself housed by January.
I spent that year (and the four years prior) breaking my ass to get to this point and I am here.
I have done this before, this way, and my way worked, and it’s working now, and inshallah it will work again and if it doesn’t it will be because of me alone and I will take that. I can handle that.
I would love the company credit for the amount of legwork that went into being told to fuck myself.
The general vibe was software is difficult to patent, go away and come back when you’re a grown up with money, which is a theme.
My apologies for not being rich.
What Comes Next, motherfuckers.
What Comes Next

November 14.

Rocky Run 5K. Race number 27 since 2013. Last year: 36:27. I’ve done this before →