Friday, May 8, 2026

Quieter day after a heavy week. Named three bets out loud instead of starting them quietly.

Was tempted to skip the day entirely. Instead of forcing code, I wrote three milestone kickoffs — each naming the bet, the cancel condition, and the revision path.

A personal-agent demo. The first Godfrey Labs product with payments wired. A local coding agent experiment with a hard cancel date if quality stays below the bar.

No code shipped. Three named outcomes is more useful than three half-started implementations.

Shipped

• Three milestone kickoffs — each with an explicit cancel condition

Notes

Kickoffs are cheap to write and expensive to skip. The clause that matters most is the cancel condition. A project with no exit is the same as a project that never ends.