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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CHAPTERS, CRAFT, FIELD_BRIEF, OUTLINE, drafts/ seasonal-intelligence/ Book Two: OUTLINE essays/ the six pieces archive/ superseded originals, unmaintained by design PORTFOLIO.md the split and the sequence Adds a README to each directory. Cross-references updated to the new layout; archive/ references left broken deliberately, as those are historical documents.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.
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# Books
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Two books and a set of essays, all growing out of one theory about how people decide what matters.
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## What's here
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theory/ the shared foundation — both books rest on this
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a-days-walk/ Book One. In progress.
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seasonal-intelligence/ Book Two. Outlined, not started.
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essays/ six pieces, publishable before either book
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archive/ superseded originals, kept unchanged
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PORTFOLIO.md why it's split this way, and in what order to work
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## Start here
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**`PORTFOLIO.md`** — the split, the reasoning, what was cut, and the sequence. Read this first if you've been away from the project.
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**`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.
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## The two governing documents
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Nothing in either book gets written without checking against these.
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| File | Governs | Rule |
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| `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 |
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| `a-days-walk/CRAFT.md` | **How it may be said** | Scene before claim · no apparatus in the body · hedge in first person |
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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.
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*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.*
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## Status
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| Theory | Revised, narrowed, evidence-checked |
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| Book One | Outlined in full. Three sample chapters drafted with placeholder specifics. Awaiting the walk. |
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| Book Two | Outlined. Needs a year of case-study collection before drafting. |
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| Essays | Outlined, none written |
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| Words of real manuscript | **0** |
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## Next
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**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.
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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.
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