2026-03-24: Essay Surface and Tomberg Placement
What changed
The site now has a shared /essays reading surface instead of treating long-form prose as an
exception hidden behind /about alone. The new surface includes the founding essay and a new
reading edition for the Meditations on the Tarot essay.
The Library navigation now includes Essays, which places long-form writing inside the same public
knowledge cluster as sources, concepts, figures, and imagery.
The Tomberg source page can now point readers toward the related essay, and the essay pages point back to their associated source entries where that relationship exists.
Why
The project has moved beyond a single founding statement. A dedicated essay surface gives long-form writing a scalable content model without forcing an immediate top-level navigation decision.
This keeps the site coherent now while leaving room for a future human decision about whether essays should eventually become a primary nav category.
Files and commits
Primary files in this work session:
content/specials/ep-00-founding-essay/essay.yamlcontent/specials/meditations-on-the-tarot-essay/essay.yamlsite/lib/essays.tssite/app/essays/page.tsxsite/app/essays/[slug]/page.tsxsite/app/components/SiteNav.tsxsite/app/page.tsxsite/app/sources/[slug]/page.tsx
Commit: pending in current work session
Type
User-visible and architectural.
Follow-up
- Decide whether
/aboutshould remain the public canonical path for the founding essay or whether the essays surface should become canonical across all long-form prose. - Decide whether essays should gain a top-level navigation entry once there are more than two live pieces.