CHANGELOG — A Person, Versioned

v34.x 2025 – present

The year of building things that don't scale

Added The ability to sit with an idea for weeks before acting on it. Previously shipped everything immediately, broke everything immediately.
Added A morning routine that actually stuck. Not the 5am-cold-plunge kind. The "coffee and twenty minutes of not looking at a screen" kind.
Changed Relationship to ambition. Used to be the engine. Now it's more like weather — sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, and both are fine.
Fixed The thing where I'd agree to plans and then quietly dread them for days. Now I just say no upfront. Revolutionary.
Deprecated The belief that being busy means being valuable. Still runs in the background sometimes but no longer drives decisions.

This is the first version where I've felt like I'm building toward something instead of running from something. Still not sure what. That might be the point.

v31.0 – v33.x 2022 – 2024

The great refactor

Changed Career trajectory. Left the thing that looked good on paper for the thing that felt right in the body. Income went down. Sleep quality went up.
Added Cooking as a daily practice, not a weekend performance. Can now make four things well instead of twenty things impressively.
Removed Instagram. Not in a grand-gesture way. Just stopped opening it and then one day uninstalled. Didn't announce it. That's the whole point.
Broken A friendship I thought was load-bearing. Turned out the foundation was thinner than I'd assumed. Still processing the structural failure.
Fixed Ability to receive compliments without deflecting. Can now say "thank you" and just... let it land. 70% success rate.
Added Therapy. Should have been added in v22 at the latest. Better late than never. Filed under "critical infrastructure."

The refactor was painful and necessary. Removed a lot of dead code. Some of it turned out to not be dead — just dormant.

v28.0 – v30.x 2019 – 2021

Runtime errors everywhere

Broken Confidence in my own judgment. Made a series of decisions based on what I thought I should want. Discovered "should" is a terrible compass.
Changed Living situation three times in two years. Each move felt like an escape. The third one finally felt like an arrival.
Added The ability to be alone without being lonely. This took the entire three-year window. A pandemic helped, in the worst possible way.
Deprecated The version of me that performed competence instead of admitting confusion. Still available in legacy mode for job interviews.
Removed A relationship that had been running on momentum since v26. The removal was mutual but I initiated the pull request.
Fixed Sleep. After years of treating it as optional overhead, finally allocated proper resources. The performance improvement was embarrassing.

The years where everything I'd been avoiding caught up with me. In retrospect: necessary. At the time: apocalyptic.

v25.0 – v27.x 2016 – 2018

Feature creep

Added Too many hobbies at once. Climbing, ceramics, sourdough, running, meditation. Was collecting identities like browser tabs. Kept two.
Changed Political opinions from inherited to examined. Uncomfortable process. Some relationships didn't survive the migration.
Added First real job in the field I'd trained for. Discovered that passion for a subject and passion for the industry around it are different animals.
Deprecated The all-nighter as a productivity tool. Still technically capable but the recovery time increased 400% and the output quality dropped.
Broken My metabolism. Not sure when exactly. Just noticed one day that the same inputs produced different outputs. Unfair.

v22.0 – v24.x 2013 – 2015

The dependency years

Added The ability to cook a meal for someone as an expression of love. Previously expressed affection exclusively through words. Words are cheaper.
Changed Definition of "home" from a place I was given to a place I chose. First apartment alone. Ate cereal for dinner for three months. Freedom.
Added Understanding that my parents are people. Not archetypes, not authorities — just people who were also figuring it out. This took 23 years.
Broken The illusion that education guarantees trajectory. Graduated. Applied to forty things. Got two responses. Recalibrated expectations.
Fixed Ability to ask for help. Previously treated as a fatal exception. Downgraded to a warning.

These years felt slow at the time and fast in retrospect. I think that's what growth feels like — you can't see it from inside.

v18.0 – v21.x 2009 – 2012

Beta testing everything

Added A personality that was actually mine, not assembled from the people I admired most. Took a few false starts.
Added First heartbreak. Not the kind from movies — the quiet kind where you realize the other person just stopped thinking about you.
Changed Music taste from "whatever my friends listen to" to "this." Entire identity restructured around this change for about 18 months. Embarrassing. Necessary.
Removed The assumption that adults know what they're doing. Replaced with nothing. The gap this left has never been filled.
Broken Relationship with certainty. Started noticing that confident people were often just loud. Began trusting quiet doubt more than loud conviction.

v13.0 – v17.x 2004 – 2008

Compiling

Added Self-consciousness. A feature nobody requests but everyone receives. No option to disable.
Changed Relationship to authority from "these people make the rules" to "these people are making this up as they go." Liberating and terrifying in equal measure.
Deprecated Unfiltered honesty. Replaced with a complex system of social calibration that I'm still debugging decades later.
Added The first thing I was genuinely good at. Won't say what — it doesn't matter now. What matters is the feeling of being good at something. Still chasing it.