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What we're working on this month

A page that exists so you don't have to guess.

This is a /now page — borrowed from Derek Sivers. It says, plainly, what the group is focused on right now. We update it once a month. Between updates, what is on the page is what is true; what is missing is on purpose.

Updated 2026-06-04

This month

Finance, now with a voice

NI Infinite's YouTube channel went live in mid-May and kept a near-daily rhythm through this month. We extended the same foreign-capital lens from writing into moving image — long-form deep-dive series, a weekly market read, classic-book readings, and original finance theme songs we wrote ourselves. It is the first time the group has put a brand's voice on an open platform in earnest. The writing is still the foundation, but video gives first-time visitors an easier way in. Everything else stays quiet — we left the working parts alone.

This quarter

From three brands to one household

The thesis for the quarter is simple: a portfolio of three brands is not yet a household. A household is the version where members move between brands the way they move between rooms in a home they have lived in long enough to stop noticing the doors. Most of the work that gets us there is invisible — identity, governance, the slow accumulation of small reasons to stay. None of it makes a launch announcement. We are betting that it makes a difference at the ten-year mark.

Quiet on

What we are deliberately not doing

We are not opening a fourth brand this year. The household is not full yet, and rushing the next one would be the opposite of the thing we are here to do. We are not running paid acquisition on any brand. The kind of reader who fits this house tends to find it through a sentence written carefully somewhere — a letter, an article, a friend. We would rather keep writing well than buy attention. We are not publishing roadmap timelines for individual brand features. We have made that mistake before; the public schedule started to drive the product, instead of the other way around.

The longer view

Annual letters explain the year. This page explains the month.

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What we shipped

The milestone log keeps the public record of what has crossed the surface.

See the milestones

This page is updated by hand on the first week of each month. If you found this page through a friend or a footer link, welcome — most of our long-term readers have, eventually.