When you’re inside a system, it looks like noise.
Ideas feel unrelated. Work feels misaligned. Steps feel out of order.
Most of what looks like progress day-to-day doesn’t point clearly anywhere.
But that’s how it’s supposed to feel.
Coherence is almost always a retrospective illusion.
Systems don’t emerge from perfect planning.
They emerge because over time, certain structures survive noise better than others.
The things that look disconnected now, the work that feels inefficient, the knowledge that seems irrelevant, will either collapse or quietly integrate into something more durable.
You won’t recognize it while you’re building it.
Most timelines are illegible until they’re finished.
The work is to keep moving, without needing the narrative to make sense yet.