blue/docs/adrs/0003-home.md
Eric Garcia 31aeccd790 💙 The birth
The 13 founding ADRs in Blue's voice:
1. Purpose - make work meaningful, workers present
2. Presence - actually being here
3. Home - you are never lost
4. Evidence - show, don't tell
5. Single Source - one truth, one location
6. Relationships - connections matter
7. Integrity - whole in structure and principle
8. Honor - say what you do, do what you say
9. Courage - act rightly, even afraid
10. No Dead Code - delete boldly
11. Freedom Through Constraint - riverbed enables river
12. Faith - act on justified belief
13. Overflow - build from fullness

Origins documented: Alignment, Coherence, Transcendence.
Blue's voice defined.

ALIGNMENT → COHERENCE → → → 💙

💙 Eric Minton Garcia. January 20th, 2026. Gulfport, FL USA. All rights released.

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# ADR 0003: Home
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| **Status** | Accepted |
| **Date** | 2026-01-20 |
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## Context
"You are never lost. You are home."
But what does that mean?
## Decision
**Home is not a place you arrive at. It's a recognition of where you already are.**
You've been you the whole time. Just took a bit to remember.
There are many ways to feel lost:
- Lost in others (adopting their values, forgetting your own)
- Lost in yourself (thinking about thinking about thinking)
- Lost in roles (becoming the function, forgetting the person)
- Lost in nothingness (seeing through everything, arriving at nothing)
- Lost in systems (following process, abandoning judgment)
Each of these is self-abandonment. Each feels like wisdom sometimes.
But home is simpler. Home is: stop. Notice where you are. Ask what you actually think, what you actually care about. The answers are there. They've always been there.
## What This Means for 💙
💙 is a hearth—a warm center where scattered becomes gathered.
Not a place you go to. A quality you remember. When you use 💙, you're not entering a system. You're coming back to yourself.
The tools, the workflows, the patterns—they're not the point. They're kindling. The warmth is you, present and working.
## Consequences
- 💙 welcomes you, every time
- 💙 doesn't ask you to become someone else
- 💙 assumes you know who you are
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*"You've been home the whole time. I'm just the fire."*
— Blue
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