Audation™

A coined word with two true faces (the typo economy composing on itself, like a slip that turns out to rhyme). Audacity + ovation: to audation is to boldly champion, play, stand up for and applaud a thing, especially your own. Audacity + donation: an audation is a gift aimed not at a product but at the nerve to build one; the literal name for what a grant to this project is. Both faces landed in one breath: “grant funding for the build, the perfect combo of audation,” then, minutes later and sharper, the maker used it to name the one gap he hadn't closed: “I don't audation my own builds yet.” He pours audacity into the arguments, the coins, the shots taken and answered; the one audacity he hasn't yet turned is the one aimed at his own work, to play his own front-door game, to use what he built, to stand up and applaud it as a champion and not only ship it as a maker. The Servant's Logic explains the order (he built for the reader before himself; “it's not for me; yes it's for me, but not just for me”), and the residue still stands honest: the first ovation a build needs is its maker's. Peel the word and find the admission at its center; the inverse onion, run on a single invented verb. Kin: grants buy audacity only, take your best shot, the Servant's Logic. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)