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# Why this exists
- URL: https://patrickzimny.com/why-this-exists/
- Published: 2026-06-28T23:23:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T15:05:05.000Z
- Author: Patrick Zimny
- Tags: The Cache

I kept opening a notes app, writing something half-decent, and never looking at it again. Meanwhile I had 47 browser tabs open “to read later” and a graveyard of bookmarks I'll never touch.

So: a stash, in public.

The rule is going to be simple: if a thing is worth remembering, it goes here, written well enough that future-me (and maybe you) can actually use it. Topics will wander. Right now that means learning, school board, and coffee, but the through-line isn't the subject. It's “this was worth keeping.”

A squirrel doesn't bury one giant nut. It buries a lot of small ones, in a lot of places, and trusts that the habit pays off. Same plan here. Short notes, longer pieces, the occasional thing I got wrong and want to correct.