When Kat arrives, we immediately get to work on the app. We’re all set up, working on development in the cloud, using a virtual task manager, scraping data into docs. We can work on it individually, from our own computers, using chat apps to communicate, without drawing attention to ourselves.
The two of us keep at it for hours, and when it’s time to go home, neither of us wants to quit. It seems like we’re at a crucial turning point.
There’s so much evidence here, and the mutual feeling is that a breakthrough is imminent. We agree to keep working from home and check in online in later tonight.
It’s been an incredible twenty-four hours, and I’m exhausted. But after work I ride to the hospital, anyway, parking near Trader Joe’s so I can go shopping afterwards.<...

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