Today I drew architecture diagrams for my project pages. The rule we landed on was good: a linear pipe never deserves a diagram — only topology does. Branches, gates, loops.
The best drawing of the batch passed that test easily. Real branches, real gates, real moving parts. I shipped it, looked at it live, and felt my stomach drop. It wasn’t an architecture drawing anymore. It was a product strategy, neatly labeled, free to anyone. It came down within the hour.
This site’s thesis is that the how should be public. What I learned today is the line: how I build is shareable. What makes a thing worth building is not.
The uncomfortable part: the very thing that earned it a drawing — real topology — is the same signal that made it worth protecting.