Reorganise into two books plus shared theory and essays

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  archive/                superseded originals, unmaintained by design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historical documents.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.
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**Why this is the flagship:** It has the original idea, the clearest single argument, the best-evidenced practical chapter (nature), and a contrarian position against the dominant "dopamine detox" narrative that the evidence actually supports. It is the book that gets you taken seriously enough for Book Two to exist.
**Length:** 7080k words, 12 chapters. Full outline in `BOOK_ONE_OUTLINE.md`.
**Length:** 7080k words, 12 chapters. Full outline in `a-days-walk/OUTLINE.md`.
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**Why second:** It needs Book One's credibility, it needs the seasonality evidence handled carefully, and the chapters most worth writing (811, the applied work-year material) need real case studies you don't have yet. Writing Book One buys you the year to collect them.
**Length:** 6070k words, 10 chapters. Outline in `BOOK_TWO_OUTLINE.md`.
**Length:** 6070k words, 10 chapters. Outline in `seasonal-intelligence/OUTLINE.md`.
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