Field Notes
Field Notes
The questions, experiments and lessons along the way.
An occasional record of what we try, what changes our minds and what we learn while building Serpenthink.
No schedule and no quota. A note is published when there is something worth recording.
01 About
A record, not a feed.
This journal documents the process of discovery without pretending every question becomes a business.
Some notes will describe interesting observations, some will show a prototype, and others will explain why a project was stopped. The common thread is curiosity, backed by honest evidence and a willingness to change course.
Where it helps, entries follow the Serpenthink Method: the problem, the hypothesis, the what if, the experiment and what we learned. Not every note needs every stage.
02 Categories
Six kinds of note.
Every note carries one category. Categories describe what a note is, not how many exist.
Observation
Something noticed that might matter.
Question
An open question, thought through in public.
Experiment
A test in progress: what we’re trying, and why.
Field Report
What happened when we tried something in the real world.
Lesson
What we learned, including when we were wrong.
Kill Switch
Why an experiment was stopped, paused or redirected.
03 The notes
Published notes.
No notes have been published yet. The journal opens with Field Note 000.
04 Numbering
Numbered once, for good.
- It starts at 000. Then 001, 002 and onward, with leading zeros.
- One sequence for everything. Every category shares the same count.
- Assigned at publication. Drafts have no number until they are released.
- Never reset or reused. A corrected or withdrawn note keeps its number. After 999 comes 1000.
The number is an editorial device, not a measure of productivity.
