This project is about my favorite memories growing up. As I think back to middle school years I had forgotten how much fondness I had for them. My head moved on into current affairs but my heart stayed back. This work is a tribute to how I had wanted my career to go and my attempts to course correct that. It is built to be an interactive book which uses numerous website technologies I have learned over the last five years and most of the story is built around a set of interconnected poems I've been writing for two and a half years.

A big goal of mine was to go against the current social media trend of infinite scrolling. Time is a precious commodity so we shouldn't waste it. I'd argue that more creators should narrow their focus to a few special areas. Honing ideas over a substantial period of time is a critical step in my process. Working this way leads to outcomes that are not possible on a short deadline cycle. Algorithms reward the rapid-fire approach, and it's not all bad, for some creators there is a place for persistent output.

I'm just making the case that we should not underestimate the power of the long hard path. So many people have adopted a fast is best mindset as of late. They seem to make this decision without thinking about what may be lost working that way. I believe it is best to structure your work over quarters and multi-year segments like how you would often do in school. Seasonality is how humans have functioned for thousands of years and it continues to be the best way to go about knowledge work.