Lila

Notes

Quiet writing about the 72-square Leela board, its real history, and self-inquiry that stays on your iPhone.

The 72-square board: what Leela actually is

The Leela board game before it was Snakes and Ladders: the gyan chauper ancestry, the reflective tradition of self-knowledge, and what our iPhone adaptation keeps, changes, and openly invents.

Reflection without a diary: why your thoughts shouldn't live on a server

A diary on a server is, structurally, a letter to whoever ends up holding the server. On the design of an on-device reflective game: no account, no egress, Data Not Collected, and why a finite board beats an infinite feed.