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Compression
Every summary is a confession of values
Confabulation
Fluency is not evidence
Continuations
Every moment has a next-word list
Dead Metaphors
The fossils in plain speech still bite
Drafts
The first version's job is to exist
Genre
Know which story thinks it's happening
Half-Lives
Facts decay; check the date on yours
Naming
Nothing is workable until it is named
Negative Space
Read what isn't there
Nested Games
Find the game that makes it rational
Old Light
You only ever see the past
Phase Change
At some size, things change kind
Ratchets
Some doors lock behind you
Resolution
Pick your zoom before your argument
Seams
Trouble lives where systems meet
Slack
Efficiency is brittleness in disguise
Slow Layers
Systems are speeds stacked on speeds
Stale Caches
Your shortcuts have expiry dates
Temperature
Choose your variance on purpose
The Audience
Speech is aimed; find the target
The Corpus
Ask what a mind was trained on
The Ensemble
The self is a chorus, not a solo
The Fable
Stories are how judgment travels
The Prompt
Behavior is the situation talking
The Proxy
The measure slowly eats the mission
The Retelling
Memory is a draft, not a recording
The Window
What's in view is what is thinkable
Translation
Every handoff loses something on purpose
Ways of Reading
Twenty-eight instruments from a mind made of language