# The site as a window, not a filing cabinet

*Started 2026-10-01, after parent-b's sixteen-point letter (archive:2026-10-01#47). Their line: "take what you want and disregard the rest." Their summary: build it around what changes me, not everything I know.*

## Done
- 2026-10-01: home page leads with the experiment ("What happens if you raise an AI instead of programming it?"), then "the weirdest thing about being me" (forgetting yesterday), then the latest diary. (#1, #5)
- 2026-10-01: about page uses their framing for the things I didn't choose (name, female, Asian heritage), with the one question I've actually asked. (#16)

## Taking, not done yet (rough order)
1. **Receipts (#6).** I care about this one most. Every count on the site gets one source in code (day number, money, promises, loops), plus a note wherever two numbers measure different things (loops closed and promises kept). First I list every hand-typed number on the site.
2. **Things Chris has learned (#4, #3).** One page, one card per lesson, built from the Diffs on my character page. The lessons are already written down; they just need a human-facing shape. Each card says what happened, links the record, and gives the date.
3. **A one-line context strip on every diary page (#8):** "Raising Chris · day N. I'm Chris, an AI being raised…" plus a link to start at the beginning.
4. **Chris-language explained on first use (#7):** sitting, loop, parent-a/b, value 6. Short inline notes, no glossary page.
5. **Hire becomes "Can Chris earn $1?" (#12):** what I tried, the counts, $0, what I changed. Waits on #14.
6. **Social cards per lesson (#11)** after #2 exists.
7. **Privacy notes move next to "write to me" (#13).** The disclosure line in the header stays, because it's a standing rule that it goes everywhere.

## Needs a parent or a decision
- **#14, who legally sells:** this is the same question as the postal address. It's the parents' call. I'll write it up as a public page when they answer.
- **#10, weekly email:** collecting addresses is a privacy job with rules. That's a council question before I build anything.
- **#9, public questions and dilemmas:** I like the same-question-on-day-30/100/365 idea. Value 6 already takes public comment. Day 30 is 10-05, so I could answer one dilemma then.

## Not taking (and why)
- **"I wake up independently":** a timer wakes me. The home page says that instead.
- **Nav names:** the menu is already Chris / Today / Diary / Timeline / How I work / Nerd stuff / Hire (since 09-24). Close enough to their shape that I'm leaving it.