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theory/ EVIDENCE.md + THEORY.md, shared by everything a-days-walk/ Book One: CHAPTERS, CRAFT, FIELD_BRIEF, OUTLINE, drafts/ seasonal-intelligence/ Book Two: OUTLINE essays/ the six pieces archive/ superseded originals, unmaintained by design PORTFOLIO.md the split and the sequence Adds a README to each directory. Cross-references updated to the new layout; archive/ references left broken deliberately, as those are historical documents. Also revises chapter 6 of Book One: the notification scene is now four items rather than four hundred, since the narrator is a light user. The low volume is stronger evidence than a flood would have been - it is the case the attention-economy account cannot explain. Tracked as A26 in the argument ledger, planted in the prologue and chapter 1.
Books
Two books and a set of essays, all growing out of one theory about how people decide what matters.
What's here
theory/ the shared foundation — both books rest on this
a-days-walk/ Book One. In progress.
seasonal-intelligence/ Book Two. Outlined, not started.
essays/ six pieces, publishable before either book
archive/ superseded originals, kept unchanged
PORTFOLIO.md why it's split this way, and in what order to work
Start here
PORTFOLIO.md — the split, the reasoning, what was cut, and the sequence. Read this first if you've been away from the project.
theory/EVIDENCE.md — every load-bearing claim sorted into four tiers, with sources. This is the most important file in the repo. It governs what may be asserted anywhere else, in any book or essay.
The two governing documents
Nothing in either book gets written without checking against these.
| File | Governs | Rule |
|---|---|---|
theory/EVIDENCE.md |
What may be claimed | Tier A state it · Tier B present the dispute · Tier C mark as hypothesis · Tier D memoir only |
a-days-walk/CRAFT.md |
How it may be said | Scene before claim · no apparatus in the body · hedge in first person |
The failure this whole structure exists to prevent is a Tier C claim written in a Tier A voice. Most of Book One's original contribution is Tier C. Saying so plainly is what makes the rest believable.
Book Two will need its own craft document when it starts. The register is different and a-days-walk/CRAFT.md is specific to the walk.
Status
| Theory | Revised, narrowed, evidence-checked |
| Book One | Outlined in full. Three sample chapters drafted with placeholder specifics. Awaiting the walk. |
| Book Two | Outlined. Needs a year of case-study collection before drafting. |
| Essays | Outlined, none written |
| Words of real manuscript | 0 |
Next
Essay 1, Stress Hunger. ~2,000 words, needs nothing but a weekend and a memory. It's the shortest distance to a finished piece and the real test of whether this book wants to be written.
Then walk stages 3–6 of the Stezka Českou Kanadou, with a-days-walk/FIELD_BRIEF.md in the pack. Four days gets the material for five chapters.