I'm Launching One Track Early. Here's Why I'm Uneasy About It.

← back to blog I'm Launching One Track Early. Here's Why I'm Uneasy About It. Friday, 10 April 2026 I wasn't planning to do this yet. The pla

← back to blog I'm Launching One Track Early. Here's Why I'm Uneasy About It. Friday, 10 April 2026 I wasn't planning to do this yet.

The plan was to build the whole thing properly — all the tracks, the community infrastructure, the onboarding flow that doesn't exhaust someone before they even start learning. Do it right. Launch it whole.

Then the messages started coming in.

Not "excited for this!" messages. The other kind. The kind where someone tells you they've been trying to understand their diagnosis for three years and their doctor doesn't have time to explain it and they can't afford a specialist and they just need somewhere to start. The kind where you read it and feel the weight of what "not yet" actually costs someone.

I've been sitting with that tension for a few weeks now.

Here's what concerns me about launching early:

Incomplete things can harm. A course that's missing context, that doesn't account for how different everyone's presentation is, that moves too fast for a brain fog day — that's not neutral. That can actually make things worse. I know this because I've been the patient on the receiving end of incomplete information, and I know how dangerous the gaps are.

I also know I'm one person with variable energy. If I launch something and then crash for two weeks, people are waiting and I can't respond. That's a trust issue. That's not fair to them.

And I know what launching under pressure feels like. I've done it before. It rarely looks the way I wanted it to.

So no, this isn't easy. I'm not doing this because I'm suddenly confident. I'm doing it because the alternative — waiting for perfect while people are asking right now — is a kind of withholding I can't justify.

About the pricing.

I've been told, by people I respect, that I'm pricing this wrong. Too cheap. Undervalues the work. Sets a bad precedent. If you charge nothing, people assume it's worth nothing.

I've heard all of it. I understand the logic.

Here's why I'm doing it