Burn After Reading «2026 Update»

We mistake documentation for wisdom. We think that if we write it down, we must protect it, defend it, and build a shrine around it. But most of our ideas aren’t monuments. They are .

There is one rule to this practice:

So write it down. Be furious. Be ambitious. Be a fool. Burn After Reading

Burn after reading. And then go live. What would you write today if you knew no one would ever read it—and the evidence would turn to smoke tomorrow? We mistake documentation for wisdom

We are so afraid of being wrong that we archive every wrong turn, hoping to prove we were “figuring it out.” But you don’t need a map of the wrong turns. You just need the road ahead. we must protect it