The threshold
Phase One closed at exactly 26 weeks — 182 days, . The next day, Day 183 — "The Threshold" — opened Phase Two: Phase One closed, the final dispatch published, the last numbered daily video posted. The day numbering in the archive never stops.
What it is
No new daily content. Weekly only — the map maintained without burnout:
- Weekly Waffle (Substack essay, 20–30 minutes audio)
- Weekly Waffle → RSS feed → Apple Podcasts
- Weekly Waffle → manual upload → YouTube Podcast
- Weekly longform video (YouTube, companion to the Waffle or standalone)
- The Phase One daily videos → repurposed as YouTube Shorts, each linking to the corresponding podcast episode
- Reddit engagement continues (r/TheDAMProject)
- Podcast guests possible (integrated into the Weekly Waffle)
The data got richer
Phase Two's telemetry grew new tracks. Alongside mood, sleep, and the narrative fields, the archive now carries respiratory, nicotine status / craving / withdrawal (the tobacco transition), and the Carrier Signal block — presence, intensity, lock, output type, latency. The watch items of the project became data columns.
- The archive — Phase One and Phase Two
- Phase Two dataset (CSV)
- Phase Two dataset (JSON)
Current status: the Phase Two archive runs to Day 230 as of the latest export (), and regenerates as fresh exports land.