Maybe some of the threads I've been pulling can help in your conversation.

Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.

A good introduction is an orientation, not a pitch

jun 03 2026 what things mean

A good introduction is an orientation, not a pitch.

The pitch tries to convince.

The orientation helps someone understand.

That is the better posture for this site.

Here is how I think.

Here are the threads I keep returning to.

Here is what is current.

Here is what is older.

Here is what is still open.

That feels more honest than trying to compress a whole person into a selling point.

The goal is not to close the reader.

The goal is to make a better first conversation possible.

sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it

undertext

Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:

https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-a-good-introduction-is-an-orientation-not-a-pitch/
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