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   - [[bangers]]
 - -> back to [[agora pkg chapter]], now writing
   - [ ] target for the day is 5k words
+  - [ ] maximum for the submission is 10k words, maybe shoot for 8k by [[wednesday]]?
+    - follow the principle of 1k a day, only expanding ideas that are currently in [[agora protocol]] somewhere in the node already; do not add more ideas until those are fleshed out (unless something truly huge is missing somehow?)