Writing
The site is the one thing they can't take
Every platform I’m on is a rental. Twitch can shadow-ban me, TikTok can decide the algorithm prefers someone doing the same bit but younger, and a YouTube strike can vanish a year of work between two sips of coffee. I don’t own any of those audiences. I’m a tenant who’s one policy update from eviction.
So this is the deed.
What this site is actually for
It’s not a content firehose. It does three boring, durable jobs:
- The list. One email field. If the platforms all go sideways on the same Tuesday, this is how I find you again. No newsletter cadence, no “just checking in.” You hear from me when a season turns or something real happens.
- The lore. Every obsession arc gets archived here as a season. When a platform forgets, the record doesn’t.
- The ruleset. The Pullup Economy lives here in public, so nobody — me included — gets to quietly rewrite the rules mid-bet.
Why it’s built like it’s 2009
No tracker soup. No cookie modal nagging you about your “privacy” while phoning home to eleven ad networks. The whole thing is static files and a sliver of JavaScript for the email form. It loads instantly on a gym-parking-lot connection because that’s where you’ll actually read it.
Boring tech, on purpose. The flashy part is the bar. The site just has to never go down and never sell you out. Low bar. I clear it anyway — with reps to spare.