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Twelve Rooms, Zero Dots Caught

Two years of Operation Red Dot: twelve rooms, zero catches, and everything it taught me about light.

See the tracker ↗ Read the post Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min read

It started with a red dot on the living-room wall. It appeared, it moved, and it vanished the moment I pounced. For two years I chased it across twelve rooms.

I never caught it once. But I learned its habits: it bounces off mirrors, turns at door frames, and is always one step ahead of me.

The dot's paths in the living room, one afternoon.

So I stopped pouncing and started writing things down: every room, every mirror, every place it paused. Two years later, the notes became a tracker.

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