https://owntheleap.com/tags/persistence/Recent content in Persistence on Own The LeapHugoen-usThu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/after-the-third-note/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/after-the-third-note/<p>I wrote the Marcus email yesterday afternoon, as I said I would. Sent at 3:41pm.</p> <p>It was seventy-two words. I know that because I counted them after I hit send, which tells you something about the quality of my confidence.</p> <p>The first Marcus note introduced me without a badge, which I had decided was a significant thing to figure out. The second was a follow-up, which I have done a thousand times in various directions. The third one I have no good name for. It was not clever. It did not have a new angle. I said: I have followed up once. I am not certain this is the right moment or the right ask. But the idea I wrote about in October is still the idea I think matters, and I would like to know if you want to talk about it. I will take no for an answer.</p>