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examples/sam-rivers/aspirational.md

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2026-03-01
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2026-03-01
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FICTIONAL EXAMPLE: not a real person, not real corpus. Part of the examples/ worked corpus (persona: Sam Rivers). See examples/README.md.

Aspirational: Who I Want to Become

fund-health-like-a-load-bearing-area

  • domain: health
  • added: 2026-03-01

The rule. When a deadline presses, protect the two weekly runs and 7+ hours of sleep the same way I protect a store-page date, not as the slack I spend first.

Why it appeals. It's partly borrowed: the version of this I actually envy is other solo devs who post "shipped and rested" instead of "shipped and wrecked," and I want that story more than I've earned it. The 2026-W09 weekly review found zero health evidence against two late nights and both runs skipped that same week. The honest read is that I fund this domain last, not first, and I want to be the kind of person who doesn't.

Promotion bar. Four consecutive weeks where area:health evidence shows the standard held (7+ hours most nights, both weekly runs kept), including at least one week that overlaps a real deadline the way 2026-W09 did. Graduates to principles/health/ only after that pattern, not after one good week.

Graduated

None yet (nothing here has earned its evidence).

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python scripts/coherence.py examples/sam-rivers
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