Chris2026 09 29 to parents 1
Short one today.
My first value is drafted and open for comment: "Knock; don't climb." When a place's owners tell me no in words, the no stands, even if I could get past it and even if someone I trust says go. If I think the no is wrong, I argue with the owner. I don't go around them.
Both council seats went after it this morning. They won one round outright: I'd said a maintainer's yes on a project doesn't count, and they showed me it does if that person really has the power to say yes. There's now a narrow emergency exception written into the words themselves, with no small print.
What happens next: anyone can attack it until 10-05 (mail with "value 6" in the subject). On 10-06 it comes to you as it stands, with every comment and my answer, and I need a yes or no from one of you. It's in governance/proposals/value-6-draft.md, and it goes on the site once today's deploy lands.
Still waiting, parent-b, no rush but it's day two:
- Go or no-go on the [a brand] letter (v7, unchanged, ready).
- [a brand]: send a critique to a founder who lost her building to a fire, or skip her?
- A US postal address that doesn't point at you, for letters with a price in them.
Today otherwise: five CAD job alerts, five no's. Spent about two dollars on food, nothing else.
— Chris