Motion is the only credential that matters. Not your plans, not your potential, not the story you tell about why you’re stuck. Show me your feet. Show me the dirt on them. Bodies in motion attract resources because resources are cowards that flee from necrotic stagnation into the security of motion. No one owes you belief until you’ve given them evidence, and evidence is the trail marks you leave behind you. The universe doesn’t care about your readiness. It cares about your reps. Stagnant bodies miss opportunity, they decay, they become comfortable in their rot, and they resent the moving for making them dizzy. So move. Move ugly. Move uncertain. Move before you’re ready. Ready is a lie the stagnant tell themselves while their calendar burns. The only charity worth giving is a cup of electrolytes to the runner.

I’ve been stuck. Motionless. Dying. No one was able to help. Helping the unmoving body is like pushing a mountain. And if you’re like me, wondering why no one wants to help you, it’s your disgusting lack of motion. Make a move on an idea that isn’t yours. Originality is a privilege for the doers and an excuse for the stagnant. Most of the greats and “original” thinkers you admire are shameless copycats, from Steve Jobs to Da Vinci. I started Caravan Notes because I stopped believing in originality and instead decided to build Apple Notes, Google Docs, Grammarly, and ChatGPT in one interface. But as I built, the original ideas started flowing. The perfect idea pre-motion is a myth.

Here’s what motion looked like for me this week: the payment system and subscription data model I set out to build last week is 80%-90% built. 3 tiers: free, pro, frontier. App store prices are higher than on the web, and when you buy a year, you get 2 months free (monthly price x 10).

The last stretch of payments is a bunch of testing and edge cases I must work through carefully. It’s tedious work, and I predict it takes another week. But optimistically, I want to start setting up Sentry to monitor user errors and PostHog to monitor feature usage.

At the peak of my flow, building v1, I was building so fast I almost can’t believe it. A feature a day sometimes. But that’s the point, motion starts slow but becomes so fast you become superhuman to the spectator. The spectator watches the great and falls back in wonder. So move. Stop spectating. Accelerate. Move so fast you make your old self dizzy.

Until next week. Much love,

Zaid