Sequencing Vision Through Listening and Restraint
For a long time I believed the vision for Polyaura had to keep expanding. Let’s call this talk. Talk is adding surface area to a world that doesn’t exist yet. You think it’s good for clarity, team morale, and revenue. Later, you realize talking is deleterious for all three; it is blind confidence.
I mean to get to the end, but we cannot start there. We have to listen. Listening, as I understand it, is instrumental confidence: surfacing reality early enough to correct arrogance before it compounds. But listening alone is not enough. It must be paired with restraint. Hardware is especially brutal about enforcing that.
In 2026, I’m radically simplifying Polyaura’s vision. What began as a UX research platform evolved into a complex AI assistant. Over the next two months, I’m shipping a small clip-on for glasses with a single button that captures exactly what you see—the same thesis, now forced into a real form factor. This may work or it may fail, but at least failure is now predefined.