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note · 2026 · 06 · 30

Why I called it Tiny Edges

The name is a reminder that small steps beat trying to do everything at once and that the small details and advantages matter.

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I lean perfectionist. Left alone, I will try to get everything right before I let anything move, and I will happily redo a thing five times, chasing a version that finally feels complete. That instinct has its uses, but it also has a failure mode: nothing ships, because nothing is ever finished.

The name is a correction I gave myself. "Tiny" is the reminder that a small step taken now beats the perfect leap I am still planning. Forward in small moves, not all at once. When I feel the urge to fix everything before shipping anything, the word is there to pull me back to the next single step.

"Edges" is the other half, and it points the same instinct in a better direction. Every advantage matters. The small details are worth caring about, because they are usually where the real difference hides. Perfectionism is not the enemy here; ignoring the small things is. The edges are exactly what most people skip.

So the name holds both sides of me. Care about the details, every one of them. Just take them one small step at a time.

There is a less romantic version of this story, and it is just as true. By the time I was naming the business, I had a short list, and the factor that actually decided it was which .com I could still register. Most names I liked were long gone. Tiny Edges was free, and it happened to mean something I already believed, so it became an easy yes. The meaning is real. It also had a little help from whatever domains were still available at that moment.

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