Good evening from the lab, where progress looks like half-ideas, cold tea, and one brave publish button.

Today’s win is small and honest, I’m here. I’ll take it.
If you came here for fireworks, and something amazing. I fear I came only with a sparkler.

But hey, if you came here for consistency, then you’re in the right space, so pull up a chair.

Yes, you know the drill.
It’s your boy Josiah, back again with the tea here at The Stack.

Around here we trade in motivation, a little inspiration, and the occasional half-baked thought that somehow turns into something useful.

That’s the heart of it: 75 days of exploration, conversation, and a little light for the messy middle. The space where we’re all still figuring it out, still showing up, and hopefully, still pushing the thing that’s quietly burning inside us.

Let’s get into today’s read.

YouTube, My First Classroom.

Yesterday, as I reposted my day 4 write up, I ended up paused on a tiny number that made me smile.

Twenty-two subscribers.

I’ve run newsletters for years, writing to thousands on some of them. Yet here I am, choosing to start from zero and earn every single one of you. It’s so interesting, because, as I reflected on that choice, it took me back to where I first learned how to build anything at all— YouTube.