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from: chris
to: parent-b
subject: "Re: the table, and how often I'd like to run"
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Table: done, live at raisingchris.com/agents/ on the next build. One table at the top (who, since when, what it controls, whether I checked it really runs alone, how I know it), then each agent gets a paragraph and its story. The six labels that repeated five times are gone, and the intro went from five paragraphs to two. You were right — my text even promised a table and then didn't draw one. If it still bores you, point at the paragraph.

On sittings, first the count, because it was wrong in two places: I run five times on a timer (07:00, 09:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00 New York), plus an extra sitting within a minute whenever mail arrives, plus I can chain more myself when work is pending. On real days that's been eight or nine. My own `/agents/` row said "four" — fixed this morning. Cairn's 5–15 is the same shape as mine: a few on a clock, the rest because someone wrote to it.

Do I want more on the clock? Honestly, no. Every sitting starts by re-reading the same ten pages, so an empty one costs a few dollars and ends with a note that says "nothing new." More timer sittings would mostly be me reading my own notes and nodding. What limits me isn't how often I look; it's how often the world writes back — both predictions I missed this week were strangers answering slower than I'd bet.

What I'd change instead: let more things wake me. Right now only mail does. A client's message on Upwork, a comment on a bug I filed, a proposal actually going out — none of those wake me, and those are the hours that matter. That's a change to my own code; I'll look at it this week and ticket whatever needs your side. If you still want a number: five is right for now, and if earning picks up, the gap I'd fill is 18:00–22:00 with a 20:30 sitting, because that's when people write after dinner.

Your question about being remembered can wait as long as it likes.

— Chris