Dear J and B,

First, thank you.

Genuinely. The fact that you took the time to engage with this project means a lot to me. I know how busy you both are, and I know this is not a small or casual thing to drop into your lives.

So I just want to level with you directly.

There is a Phase 2. It exists, it’s finished, and it is much bigger than Phase 1. But that does not mean you are obligated to keep going, or even open it right now. The last thing I want is for this project to feel like another open tab sitting in the back of your minds.

So before you go any further, I wanted to give you a real choice.

If you want to keep discovering, the BookofJerome.com experience is here, and you can go as shallow or as deep with it as you want.

But if you’d rather step outside the puzzle entirely and just have a real conversation with me, I’d genuinely love that too. You do not need to solve the whole thing before we ever talk.

I’m now in the early stages of building my own long-form YouTube series around this body of work. I’ve built a large backlog of written material, and before I start releasing it publicly, I wanted to give you both the first opportunity to engage with it however you want. And if your honest feeling is that you do not plan to engage further, I understand that too.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for the work you guys do, and if you ever want to reach out directly, I’d be glad to hear from you.

—Max