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Notes on journaling, free association and building Naipa.

  • 3 min read

    Why three cards

    One is a coincidence and ten is homework. Three is the smallest number that still shows you something, and the largest that still fits in a dead minute.

  • 3 min read

    Your turn never touches the network

    All seventy cards ship inside the app, and your phone deals them. It isn't an optimisation — it's what lets sixty seconds actually be sixty seconds.

  • 4 min read

    Seven themes, and why counting isn't diagnosing

    Naipa groups your associations into seven emotional categories. Here's what they mean, how they're used, and above all the care behind not telling you what's wrong with you.

  • 4 min read

    One week of saying nothing

    Naipa holds the reading back until a week is finished. Showing you a pattern too early doesn't reveal it — it manufactures it.

  • 3 min read

    The blank page is the problem, not you

    Almost everyone abandons their journal at the same bend in the road. It isn't a lack of discipline — it's a design flaw, and it can be fixed.