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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CHAPTERS, CRAFT, FIELD_BRIEF, OUTLINE, drafts/ seasonal-intelligence/ Book Two: OUTLINE essays/ the six pieces archive/ superseded originals, unmaintained by design PORTFOLIO.md the split and the sequence Adds a README to each directory. Cross-references updated to the new layout; archive/ references left broken deliberately, as those are historical documents.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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A Day's Walk
How We Lost the Ability to Tell What Matters
Czech candidates: Na den chůze · Co se nás týká · Blízko a daleko
Book One, and the flagship. 70–80k words, 12 chapters in four parts, framed as an eight-day walk on the Stezka Českou Kanadou from Jindřichův Hradec to Dačice.
The argument in one sentence: the problem isn't that we pay too little attention, it's that the machinery deciding what deserves attention is being fed information it was never built to sort — and the fix is retriage, not abstinence.
Files
| File | What it's for |
|---|---|
CHAPTERS.md |
The drafting document. Walk spine, opening scene and numbered argument beats for all 14 units, and the argument ledger. |
CRAFT.md |
How it's written. Register, the five rules, recurring objects, banned language. |
FIELD_BRIEF.md |
What to capture on the trail. Carry this. |
OUTLINE.md |
Strategic rationale for the book's shape. Superseded by CHAPTERS.md for drafting. |
drafts/ |
Prologue, ch 3, ch 5. Register tests — the specifics are placeholders. |
Claims are governed by ../theory/EVIDENCE.md.
Before drafting anything
- Read
CRAFT.md. The whole book fails in one paragraph if the register slips. - Check the chapter's tier in
../theory/EVIDENCE.md. Most of Part II is Tier C and must read as hypothesis. - Check the argument ledger at the bottom of
CHAPTERS.md. Every claim has a place it's raised and a place it's paid off; the usual way to break the book is cutting a chapter-5 paragraph and silently orphaning chapter 11.
What's blocking
The three drafts are built on invented ground — a pond that doesn't exist, a man with an axe, a stone step in a forest nobody has walked to. The architecture holds. The material doesn't exist yet.
Walk stages 3–6 consecutively. Four days, ~62 km, and it yields chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 — the core of the book. Stages 5 and 6 must not be separated; chapter 6 only works if the previous day was spent among the emptied villages with the phone off the whole run.
Before going, work through the map-verification list in FIELD_BRIEF.md — the tower's position, which villages are reachable, which pond has the right shape. An hour settles most of what the drafts currently guess at.