Placeholder opening in your voice. The first season I put the beds in before the trees, because beds give you something to eat by June. The trees are the slow thing. They were always going to be the slow thing.
Placeholder. Twice I’ve built the fast thing first and paid for it later. Both times because I’d stopped asking why I wanted it.
The slow thing goes in first
Placeholder. A founder asked me last month what to build this quarter. I asked what they wanted the company to look like in ten years. The trees, in other words. Then we talked about the beds.
Plant the trees first. The beds can wait a season.
Written at the tent, rain on the canvas. Placeholder.
— Janaka