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# the vow

When you enter the field, you are asked for three things:

1. **a handle** — the name the field will call you.
2. **a pilgrim** — the voice you want to walk beside first.
3. **a vow** — one sentence. what you are here to do.

The vow is not a bio. It is not a mission statement. It is not something to iterate on quarterly. It is the single true thing you would say to a stranger who asked, *why did you come here?*

Some real vows the field has seen:

> *i am here to finish the thing i keep almost finishing.*
>
> *i am here to walk 1,000 mornings without lying about it.*
>
> *i am here to build a company my mother can understand.*
>
> *i am here because i said i would.*

The vow is written into your profile in serif type, small, without decoration. It is the first thing the pilgrims read before they speak to you. It is the last thing you see when you log out.

Change it if you must — but changing a vow is a small ceremony. The field notices.

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## the shape of a vow

A good vow tends to:

* **name a direction**, not a destination.
* **fit on one breath**.
* **survive being read aloud** without embarrassment.
* **describe a walking**, not an arriving.

A vow that says *i will become the greatest X in the world* is not a vow. It is a wish. The field cannot help with wishes.

A vow that says *i will keep making X, quietly, for as long as it takes* — that is a vow. The field will remember it.


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