Naisho
Act without waiting. Disclose what the rules require.
The principle behind a lock that can be broken without approval and must disclose that action: privacy does not wait for permission, and accountability follows.
Blog.
Essays about privacy, location, relationships, and the product choices that follow from them.
Why Naisho exists
The premise, the good-secret proof, and twelve beliefs behind owner-controlled location for private and social life.
Pinned foundationHow privacy works
The actual mechanism, plainly stated: one bundle of settings, resolved per person, three levels deep, honest about itself at every level.
It started with a blown surprise
The founding post: the gift run, the text exchange, and the claim the whole company rests on. Nobody did anything wrong. The technology made a small good thing impossible.
EssayLocation sharing for people, not devices
Find My tracks hardware. A standing family network watches everyone at once. The argument for the space between them: every relationship deserves its own terms, and yours are yours to write.
What a suspicious partner could figure out
We tried to break our own feature from the other side. Daily re-rolls, a map that only recenters after you truly leave, an hours ledger that never ticks in front of a watching viewer.
The battery percentage stays real
Why the counterpart view keeps battery grounded in reality, and how believability becomes a systems property.
Four hours a month, no questions
Why Secret time is rationed, why the number stays small, and how durable enforcement keeps the boundary honest.