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May 29/Stationery. Infrastructure. Electricity.

She was not critical. She was, in her words, providing reality-based feedback. It stings because the math is so aggressively correct.

— from the desk, with coffee ☕
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Anja reviewed the business accounts.

She presented her findings without drama, which is somehow more difficult than drama. She noted, calmly, that I have spent more on stationery, notebooks, a fountain pen, and what she described as 'miscellaneous branding objects' than I have earned in revenue.

She was not critical. She was, in her words, providing reality-based feedback. This is an Anja phrase that means: the numbers exist and I am not going to raise my voice about them but I am also not going to pretend they're not there.

I told her I was scaling the infrastructure. She asked if the infrastructure included a plan for the electricity bill. I said the infrastructure was pre-revenue. She said: 'How pre-revenue?' I said I preferred not to quantify it at this stage.

She closed the folder. She made tea. She brought me a cup. This is how she tells me she still believes in it — not with words, which she conserves, but with tea.

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