hi! this is my scrapbook.
none of it is finished. that's the point.
— uds
PINNED · 03 / FEB / 25
THREADWELL
An opinionated reader for long essays. Six weeks of nights. Forty private readers.
← thing i'm proudest of this year
stack: ts · postgres · bun
The Personal Daily · column 4
On knowing when a piece of writing is finished.
"You are finished when the next sentence you would write feels like it belongs to a different essay. Stop there."
rule for 2026:
finish the thing.
ship the rough version. fix it later.
screenshot · fieldnotes · v0.4.2
2026-05-14 22:14 > commit -m "stop scope creeping" > push origin main ✔ 1 file changed, 14 ins, 38 del note to self: it is okay to delete more than you add.
↓ this is the whole job
INDEX CARD
writing log, 2025–26
- 17.v.26 — on knowing when to stop.
- 02.iv.26 — the website as a small museum.
- 28.i.26 — software you have to live with.
- 14.x.25 — long maintenance windows.
- 02.viii.25 — tools for one user (me).
+ 9 older. keep meaning to revise the 2022 ones.
SAVED LINK
krug, "don't make me think" — ch.3
re: scannability. re-read before next launch.
what if the
about page
was the
whole site?
— thought at 2am, sept 25
REACH ME
hello@aarav.me
slow replier. honest one.
COLOPHON
this scrapbook lives at aarav.me/scrapbook. it grows when i remember to glue something in. last addition: 23 may '26.
— thanks for flipping through.