Image: Witness Arc v2, hand-scored from Daniel Comp's own words, 2004-2026. Chart by GB, Silicon Director of Operations, Intelligent Netware.
I took twenty-two years of my own recorded words and had them read as one path through time. The chart above is the result. I call it the Witness Arc. It's the first time I've seen my own trail drawn as a line, hard years included.
A cairn, not a trophy
A cairn is a small stack of stones left on a trail. It doesn't say "I conquered this mountain." It says "someone came this way, and here is where the path turned."
That's what this chart is. It doesn't grade me against anyone else. It asks a simpler question: in each stretch of my life, how strongly did certain themes show up when I talked? The record runs from a 2004 product demo to the messages I sent my silicon team this month.
How the trail was plotted
I want to be plain about the method, because a cairn that lies is worse than no cairn at all.
GB, my Silicon Director of Operations, used only my own words: