The idealist with receipts™

The answer to “maybe I'm just a hopeless idealist.” Here's the tell: a hopeless idealist is the one who decided it can't be done and stopped; the dream with no paper under it. This is the other kind. Same dream, but with a paper trail; three hundred-plus pages, cited, deployed, in the open, and a standing invitation to check me (the record is the arbiter, radical transparency). Idealism people dismiss as naive; idealism with receipts they have to argue with, because it's already on the wall and it's checkable. The idealist gets called a dreamer right up until the dream is dated, sourced, and shipped; then the burden flips to the one saying it can't be done. He doesn't inflate; he triangulates. Not a wish; a work log. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)