Recent thoughts
An opinion piece — the kind I keep out of Project Context — on shame, running, and the cost of the welcome.
Field notes from federal solutions work: the simplest architecture that survives the panel usually wins.
A small defense of the personal utility website, the unread journal, and the tool with exactly one user.
Where board duty meets shepherding — and what numbers can and can't tell you about a church.
The Bench
Capture, sort, and keep the scraps — links, quotes, references, half-ideas.
open →The little built-for-me tools that don't belong anywhere else yet.
open →Daily A2 practice — scheduler-fed, quick, no excuses.
open → +Drop a new vibe app onto the bench.
About this place
Veranotes is my commonplace book — a place for opinions, half-formed ideas, and the tools I build for myself. Where Project Context stays disciplined and expository, this is the margin: where I write what I actually think.
The main text is for everyone. The margin is for me.