Notes — Gainful Unemployment

Loose thoughts, partial ideas, and things worth remembering.


Permission to Build Small

I’ve noticed a pattern in myself: if an idea can’t be big, I sometimes treat it as not worth doing at all.

But the longer I work on this, the more I realize that small things are not failures — they’re a strategy.

Small projects:

A site doesn’t have to “scale” to be useful.
A page doesn’t have to become a brand.
A project doesn’t have to justify its existence with revenue on day one.

Sometimes the win is just:

That’s enough.