Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
Said it twice this week in two different rooms, so it’s earning a note: the right next step can only be as clear as the goals. Roadmap questions, hiring questions, what-do-we-build-next questions: they all turn out to be the same question wearing work clothes.
When someone asks me what to do next and I can’t answer, it’s almost never because the options are unclear. It’s because where we’re going is. A map is only useful relative to a destination.
sourced Jun 11 2026 · high confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
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/2026-06-11-the-next-step-is-only-as-clear-as-the-goals/