Picture those stains as silent corrections from every previous cook. They turn the card into a living document that actively guides your hands.

Man, this hits on something bigger about how we've turned even leisure into pure optimization. We're so conditioned to extract maximum data and progress from every single activity that doing something at its intended, gentle pace feels like failure. That watch-checking anxiety finley mentioned is basically our brains rebelling against not being productive, even during recovery. The real surprise isn't that your times dropped, it's that we need to actively fight an entire culture telling us to go harder, faster, right now.