coming 15 June 2026
The distribution
Anonymized closet-hours tax numbers from Raising Agents readers. Tokens spent on builds that were not due. Published with episode 004.
Episode 001 ends with a promise: "If you run this on yourself this week, reply with your number. I will publish the distribution, anonymized, in episode four." This page is how that promise gets kept. It opens on 15 June 2026.
Publishes
Sunday, 15 June 2026
Episode 004 sends the morning of 15 June. This page goes live the same moment. You do not need to visit — the number and the distribution arrive in your inbox if you are subscribed.
What will be published
For each reader who submitted a closet-hours tax number between episode 001 (2026-05-04) and episode 003 (2026-06-01), the anonymized data point will contribute to a single chart: the distribution of reader closet-hours tax, in tokens, for a representative week in May 2026.
Alongside: my own number, unredacted. I expect to be somewhere on the right side of the distribution. I will not pretend otherwise.
The chart becomes permanent on this page. Future distributions append each year — 2027, 2028, etc. — so the shape of reader over-building over time becomes visible.
Submit your number
One field required: your closet-hours tax (tokens spent on non-due builds this week). The verdict and note are optional. No email, no name, no tracking. Only the first submission per day per IP is counted.
How submission will work
One form. One field: your closet-hours tax in tokens for the preceding week. Optional second field: your closet-hours verdict (work / borderline / over-building / crisis) from the diagnostic.
No email. No name. No IP stored beyond a 24-hour hash used only to prevent the same person from submitting 400 times. No tracking cookies. No sharing with anyone.
If you want the newsletter, subscribe separately — the distribution form is deliberately decoupled. You can submit without subscribing. You can subscribe without submitting. Both are fine.
Why this matters
Every other AI-productivity discourse trades in anecdote. "I saved 5 hours this week with Claude." "My team ships 3x faster." The numbers come without distribution, without cohort, without the possibility of being embarrassing.
This distribution will be embarrassing. It will show, specifically, how much time senior operators spend on builds that are not due. Mine. Yours, if you submit. The median will tell you where you sit. The tail will tell you what the pathology looks like at the far end.
I do not know what the distribution will show. That is the point. I am running the experiment on myself and on readers simultaneously and publishing the result.
Be here when it publishes
Subscribe. Episode 004 arrives in your inbox the morning of 15 June 2026.