Field Notes.

Field Notes is the publication where Meridian itself shows up — the work in progress, the things that did not go to plan, the unexpected discoveries, the milestones worth marking.

Where Foresight carries the analytical voice and Wargames carries the methodological voice, Field Notes carries the institutional voice — the founder’s letter, the progress note, the unexpected lesson, the milestone worth marking. It is the channel where readers who care about Meridian as an institution — not just its outputs — can see what the work actually looks like from the inside.

The audience is anyone who has stayed with an institution long enough to want to know not just what it produces but how — the texture of building something serious, the unglamorous middle, the decisions that get made when no one is watching. The voice is first-person and direct. The pieces will be shorter and more frequent than a Foresight essay — closer in register to a working letter than a polished argument.

Field Notes is a working title. The publication may launch under a different name; readers should not be surprised if the channel they eventually subscribe to is called something else. The institutional decision is that this register needs its own home regardless of what we end up calling it.