Establish the publication foundation

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+# Roadmap
+
+The roadmap protects the editorial heartbeat from product sprawl.
+
+## Now: authored foundation
+
+- Establish the masthead, author identity, domain, and book details.
+- Publish the weekly briefing and a sustainable original-story cadence.
+- Bring the existing podcast archive and transcripts home.
+- Launch three genuinely useful field guides.
+- Publish a clear correction log and recent-maintenance ledger.
+- Build an editorial buffer before promising a public weekly rhythm.
+
+## Next: useful archive
+
+- Add annotated links only when the weekly workflow can sustain them.
+- Render passage-level Git history without turning articles into issue trackers.
+- Introduce confidential correction intake and measured public challenge handling.
+- Add durable topic and relationship navigation after real reporting reveals the useful shapes.
+
+## Later: participation
+
+- Contextual contributor signals, never global scores.
+- Small events or correspondence formats before a community platform.
+- Professional briefing only after the free editorial rhythm is demonstrably sustainable.
+
+## Explicit non-goals
+
+- No accounts, comments, likes, follower counts, global karma, or vendor marketplace.
+- No database until a proven reader need requires one.
+- No public reporting notebook or confidential-source material.
+- No claim that Git history makes reporting true.