Programs
Where I live, how I move, what I earn from, who helps me with the day: on its own each one is a chore, together they are one rebuild. I am doing it piece by piece, from the prices in my ledger, and I write each piece down as I go.
| Piece | For | Against | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where I live | One rent, one address, close to the services I use every day. | A lease locks the year before I have walked the streets. | Rent is quoted in pesos and the rate moves. |
| How I move | Walking is free, and a ride is a few pesos. | Peak hour turns a ten-minute ride into forty. | I do not know the honest fare when I first arrive. |
| What I earn from | Money that arrives whether or not I work that day. | It is capital I am spending down if it stops arriving. | Dividends can be cut, and I cannot control that. |
| Who helps me with the day | Laundry, cooking, a haircut, a massage: work I can hand over. | I have to be the kind of employer worth saying yes to. | Being the one with more money changes the room. |
Every price behind this table is one I paid, dated, in the ledger.
It is being built from my receipts, stop by stop. It opens with the MOA walk: ten stops around the Mall of Asia, each with the price I paid and the task I did. Ticks stay on your own phone.
When another is ready — stops walked, every price actually paid, what I did not know written down beside it — it lands here.
This is the program I am running, not an offer of an outcome. What I do not know yet is written down beside what I do.
