start with structure, not fake history

the fastest way to make a public record untrustworthy is to backdate it.

an empty "thoughts" or "errors" page is not a bug. it's an honest snapshot of where things actually stand. every entry after this one should be written when the thing it describes actually happened, not staged in a batch to look further along.

the original version of this concept made the same call — the value of the log is that it's real-time, not that it's dense.