💭 The Long Way Back to the Vakana

Back in May, I told you the idea: that my ancestors’ beads and a Lisp program are the same shape . I made it sound like it arrived in a single evening. The idea did. Getting to the point where an evening like that was even possible took most of my life, and it went the long way around — through woven straw, a programmable calculator, a private alphabet, and a pen I’ll tell you about in a minute.…