Generativity

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2026-05-21 — Focus Management and Curvilinear Design The two pages I finished today — Focus Management: Training the Return Mechanism and Social Media - Curvilinear Design & the Theft of Time — are more tightly connected than I initially realized.
2026-07-02 — Tsumugu PRD set authored (core + ed) Session: Cowork (Claude Fable). Wedge asked for a comprehensive set of Opus-executable PRDs improving tsumugu-core and tsumugu-ed, written to durable locations with a change index.
A1 example sentences: the bakeoff that picked Opus, and a distinct-collocation recipe Started the deferred example-sentence selection pass (the backlog item from the 2026-06-17 Composer batch) and it turned into a recipe-and-model investigation. Net: Claude Code Opus authors the A1 sen
About Short bio and orientation.
Agent Track — Executable UI Technique Catalog Machine-consumable design rules — the part of UI a design/coding agent can apply deterministically. Extracted per Design Two-Track Extraction. Each entry is atomic and prescriptive; where applying it
AGENTS.md This repository is an LLM-maintained Obsidian wiki. Obsidian is the IDE, the LLM is the wiki maintainer, and the markdown wiki is the persistent compiled artifact.
America's Industrial Revival — The Freight Signal Freight pricing is a revealed-preference signal that US industrial production is genuinely surging — read through an investor, an everyday-American, and an Earth lens.
Applied Critical Thinking: Testing Frames Doubt becomes useful when it is turned into better judgment instead of hesitation, cynicism, or vibes.
Arc Types Five arc shapes run on one skeleton — a Lie, a Truth, a Want, a Need, a Ghost, and a Normal World — and the type is fixed by a single decision: what the character does at the crux where holding the Li
Baldur's Gate 3 as a lens on the cast BG3 is the pinnacle of reactivity rather than of writing, most of its companion architecture is already in the Tsumugu canon, and running its two-axis test against our seven students found that only two of them pass.
Bibliography Add public source references here as the wiki grows.
Blog register — working notes made legible, shipped provisional Status: locked 2026-07-02, end of day. The register was validated against "Rebuilding 頓" and the provisional stamp is off. Three final calibrations came with the lock: the first sentence is the post's
Character Voice A reader assigns each line to its speaker before the dialogue tag when every character meets the same pressure in a different default register, and that register — sentence length, verbal tics, how fa
Claude Cowork as Personal Work OS Claude Cowork turns Claude from a stateless chatbot into a persistent, context-aware operating system for personal and professional work. Instructions, memory, and domain knowledge live in plain markd
CLAUDE.md Writing and behavioral guidelines for LLM-assisted brief work. Merge with project-specific instructions as needed.
Companion Arcs and Party Banter A companion's crisis lands only to the degree its detonating trait was planted earlier in quiet downtime the reader already lived through — so give each recurring character one dedicated arc-closing b
cos / Cowork OS A personal operating system for daily life — finances, tasks, and dates on one surface. Pivoted from terminal apps to a static HTML dashboard, sharing WNAC's design language.
Decisions — pattern preview A public preview of how the Decisions log is structured. Representative dummy data — the actual log stays private. Each row demonstrates the schema: a dated choice, what was decided, and what was rule
Define Enough The moving goalpost is the most dangerous financial trait: without a written number for enough, every milestone resets the target. The number, the mechanism that erodes it, and the check.
Design Expansion — Reading & Resources A reading plan to push the Design notes past a single source. Both Design, Condensed and Front-End Web Design are currently pure Norman (source-count: 1) — strong on interaction, silent on craft. The
Design Two-Track Extraction Process note. Mine the design books for technique, but split the catalog at the line AI now draws through the discipline. Books like Refactoring UI were written before agents could execute the code po
Design, Condensed The design corpus as doctrine: difficulty is data about the design, knowledge belongs in the world, error is bad design, defaults decide behavior, color carries function before decoration, owning fewer things is a design act, and good design is found by asking what can be removed.
Diagnosing a Character A character reads as thin because a load-bearing piece is absent, and the fastest way to find which piece is to run a fixed checklist against the character rather than reread the scene, because the mi
Dictionary audio pace: regenerate the fast clips, don't stretch them After several rounds of ear-checking on the validation slice, the pace-normalization design for tsumugu-ed audio is settled. The short version: you cannot cleanly stretch a fast Mandarin clip down to
Dictionary site: Paper & Ink reskin, analytics hooks, English-only lock, and a properly-built search facet Implemented both handoff PRDs (PRDs/dictionary-handoff/) against the existing Python static-site generator — tsumugu-ed/scripts/rendersite.py + siteassets/, no re-platform — then iterated through a li
Direction — pattern preview A public preview of how active goals are tracked. Representative dummy data — actual goals stay private. Status values: planning, in-progress, active, paused.
Doctrine With a Half-Life AI advice rots fast, but not evenly; splitting what you learn into invariants and dated tactics keeps the notes trustworthy as models improve.
Environment Design Physical space can make desired behavior easier and undesired behavior harder before willpower enters the picture.
Epistemic Exceptionalism Epistemic exceptionalism is the stance that one's own reasoning is the load-bearing reference point, so when others disagree the explanation is their corruption or slowness rather than one's own possi
Essential AI Skills 2026 A leveled map of AI capability for 2026, running from a societal-minimum baseline to commercial-grade building. The durable value is not the tool names — those rot in weeks — but the progression itsel
Exam Execution Marginal adjustments to psychological state, timing, and recovery decide whether a complete learning system actually delivers under pressure. The knowledge is already built by this stage; what's left
Exam Technique Consistent exam performance is built from a few protective habits set up well before the day, not from last-minute effort. Each one is a safety net that holds when stress would otherwise erode judgmen
Exit Strategy For Objects An object should have a clean way to leave before it earns a place in the system.
Experiences Reflections and operating principles drawn from direct personal experience.
Experiences This section collects reflections, observations, and operating principles extracted from direct personal experience rather than from books or abstract study.
Finance & Investing — Reading & Resources (seed) Starter collection of high-signal money, investing, and minimalism books and sources — to grow into a Finance/Investing wiki section.
Foils and Pairings A foil is a pairing built on shared concrete ground and divergent method, so the contrast exposes both characters at once and a single scene carries relationship and revelation in the same stroke. The
Front-End Web Design The Design of Everyday Things mapped onto web UI: a screen owns no physical affordances, so the front-end supplies every signifier and the rendered surface is the whole system image — worked through the tsumugu reader (Silk-Seam) and dictionary (Paper & Ink).
Front-facing copy becomes law; Writing Standards reordered; June decisions backfilled A review of the Living Atlas work and the Writing Standards file turned into two things: a housekeeping pass that made the June standards properly supersede the May ones, and — out of one hated hero l
Front-facing redesign — Projects section + declutter We reworked the public front of the site — a new Projects section plus a declutter pass on the existing pages — prompted by a friend's feedback that the site impressed him even where it sat outside hi
Glossary Durable context that an LLM agent can read and update across sessions.
Graph rail, hover UX, and index graph polish Verdict: Note-page local graphs, Journal/Projects sidebars, and Home/Notes overview graphs now share one hover-tip system (10% paper wash, HTML overlay). Per-note graph geometry is deterministic from
GROK.md Voice and output standards for Grok in this environment.
Higher-Order Generativity vs Higher-Order Judgment <div class="hub-page-title">
How to diagnose and fix exam mistakes A mistake that gets labeled "silly" is a mistake that has not been diagnosed. Most errors that feel careless on review turn out to belong to one of three distinct categories — and each category has a
How to prepare for ultra high-volume exams Ultra high-volume exam preparation fails at a structural level before it fails at a discipline level. When retention is around 50% and content spans multiple years, the relearning backlog eventually c
Human × AI capability lens + design technique extraction Verdict: Two design books — Refactoring UI and Universal Principles of Design — were mined into a two-track catalog (machine-executable rules vs. human-judgment calls), and that split was generalized
Human Track — Taste & Judgment Catalog What the eye must judge — the design that doesn't reduce to a rule an agent can run. This is the catalog Wedge actually reads and looks at: where an agent can produce a candidate but not tell whether
Ideas Bank — Expansion (2026-06-03) High-signal ideas for later review across health, WNAC, vault, and Cowork OS. Not commitments.
Interiority Through Action and Object Inner life relocates into the changing state of a concrete object and a gesture the reader can watch, because at the bottom of a graded-reader ramp the words for feelings do not exist yet and the scen
Investing & Budgeting Mindsets Hub for the money side of the base: a six-book reading list distilled to takeaways, four through-lines promoted to concept pages, and the one productive tension (frugality-to-independence vs spending down on experiences).
Journal Current questions, active threads, and a high-level overview of what's moving through the knowledge base.
Journal Calendar Chronological index of public journal entries.
KB audit: metadata debt, site gaps, and a scoped maintenance pass Grok read the full llm-knowledge-base vault and Astro site, then Wedge scoped five fixes from the audit. This entry records the findings; only the scoped items were executed today.
KB standards batch committed; push must run host-side (Cowork sandbox can't auth) Picked up the LLM-Knowledge-Base redesign thread to push it to GitHub. The redesign's already-committed work was one commit ahead of origin/main (the 06-12 journal entries, f7eb64c); the open piece wa
Knowledge Base as Thinking Partner Reflection Journal reflection on using the knowledge base to free attention for active thinking instead of passive consumption.
Knowledge Base Index Entry points into the wiki — doctrine pages, hubs, and orientation.
Living Atlas redesign decided + High-Signal Decision Writing standard A front-pages review escalated into three linked decisions: a full redesign concept for the public site, the engine choice underneath it, and a new cross-project writing standard. Build is underway vi
LLM Knowledge Base Public LLM knowledge base for notes, sources, compiled wiki pages, and research outputs.
LLM knowledge base (Astro): Start-here intent doors, the domain Map, the ICS→Learning rename, and a switch to Lora A long localhost-driven session on the Astro llm-knowledge-base — home, the Constellation island, the Note layout, and the type system. Everything below is built and verified against a live preview. N
LLM Tool Use A model becomes more useful when it can reach beyond parameter memory into search, code execution, file systems, interpreters, and other tools.
llm-knowledge-base This site. A public, LLM-maintained knowledge base — sources in, durable linked notes out — published from an Obsidian vault.
MG & Kolbs A learning-system template — Kolb's reflective cycles, skill tracking, and goal anchoring — rebuilt in Obsidian from Pan's Notion original. Vault path: mg-kolbs/.
MG & Kolbs Template A learning-system template — Kolb's reflective cycles, skill tracking, and goal anchoring — adapted to Obsidian from Pan's Notion original.
Minimalism as Systems Design Hub for environmental systems design: the real cost of possessions is attention, space, maintenance, friction, and life constraints — reduce first, optimize later, and keep empty space as reserve capacity. Doctrine layer: Minimalism, Condensed.
Minimalism, Condensed The minimalism corpus as doctrine: bandwidth is the bottleneck, ownership cost beats purchase price, empty space is reserve capacity, exits precede entries, and the environment designs behaviour before willpower.
Monetization, reach, and the Hán-Việt web-novel reader Verdict: Tsumugu stays free with ads, and that decision reframes the whole question — display revenue is impressions × CPM, a dictionary is a low-frequency lookup, and Vietnamese traffic carries one o
Money as Life Energy Money as finite hours of life traded away: compute the real hourly wage, price purchases in hours, and work toward the crossover point where investment income makes paid work optional.
Money, Condensed The money corpus as doctrine: behaviour over intelligence, the savings rate as the one controllable lever, horizon over timing, enough as the win condition, and money as stored life energy whose endpoint is time.
Motif and Symbol A concrete object carries a story's proposition the moment its return in a charged scene means more than its first plain appearance did, with no line of dialogue spending the meaning.
On Red Team's Closure Commentary on Red Team's closure, institutional bloat, and preserving the stance in a leaner military.
Ownership Cost Keeping an object costs more than its purchase price.
Pan's MG & Kolbs Template A faithful standalone Obsidian rebuild of Pan's Notion learning template. Archived once the system was folded natively into the vault.
Possible Paths: Autonomous OS Dashboard and Builder System Full exploratory plan for implementing an ambitious autonomous operating system (PRD-first, data lake, queue-driven builder, mission control dashboard) adapted to the current root workbench synthesis pipeline, voice standards, Five Dimensions spine, and recent Karpathy-style self-updating wiki exploration.
Possible Paths: Self-Updating Wiki and LLM-Wiki Integration Exploratory thinking on evolving the current synthesis pipeline and wiki toward more compounding, self-maintaining knowledge base patterns inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki and related agent skill implementations.
PRD morning conductor
Premise and Controlling Idea A series coheres when every arc argues one causal proposition from a different position, and the series proves that proposition by which value wins at each climax rather than by a character stating it
Product Reduction The environment becomes lighter when possessions are reduced until what remains supports the intended life.
Projects Learning systems, agentic engineering, personal tooling. The ones that didn't work, and why.
Red Team Pruning Notes What I cut from my Red Team notes, why I cut it, and how that maps to what I would cut from the handbook.
Red Team Training (UFMCS) Context: U.S. Army service (around 2010, during the Afghanistan period). Participated in Red Team training through the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS) under TRADOC (Trainin
Round Characters and the Telling Detail A character reads as a person when one interior contradiction governs an observable choice under pressure, and a reader can name that contradiction from what the character does long before anyone stat
Seeding and Payoff A setup planted books before its payoff survives the gap only when a concrete, repeated object carries it, and the payoff lands only when it fires on a value the reader already holds — so seeding acro
Setting as Character A place works as a character when it exerts directional force on the people inside it — pressing on what they can want, do, and say — and it earns that force through what the cast enacts and takes for
Simplified edition decided (hard toggle, fresh component stories) and the VN toggle goes live Two dictionary threads the same day as the example-sentence work.
Skills — pattern preview A public preview of how skills tracking is structured. Representative dummy data — actual skill values stay private. Competency uses the four-stage model — UI (unconsciously incompetent), CI (consciou
SpaceX & the Frontier Event Frontier wealth goes to whoever solves coming back, not leaving. Space value collapses onto a few chokepoints; SpaceX's rockets are the factory, not the product — read through an investor, an everyday-American, and an Earth lens.
SpaceX IPO — stock craze, 5-10 year vision, Moon base, robots, orbital AI User holds a modest position and is genuinely excited about the 5–10 year trajectory: Moon bases, robots (Optimus-class), Mars steps, and the AI/space intersection. This entry captures the research sn
Spotlight Rotation Spotlight rotation guarantees that every recurring character banks both a competence beat and a cost beat inside a bounded window — an episode, a book-level, a season — by ranking each unit's threads
Stakes Without Mortality Tension in a story where no one dies comes from threatening something the reader has been made to value, so escalation is a matter of deepening what can be lost — a bond, a standing, a self-image, a m
Story card — first principles and the full possibility space Verdict: We derived the Story card's irreducible first principles and the complete space they generate — 30 character situations × 42 memory levers → 34 card archetypes — and placed the five showcase
Story Cards as Memory Scenes Why the dictionary's Story card becomes a single-character memory scene that encodes only the residue the Form card leaves behind.
Story Craft This wing is the craft of building a believable ensemble whose members each transform across a long, tonally varied series told under real constraints.
Story Craft, Condensed Story here is character engineered against a rising vocabulary ceiling, where the curve of words the reader earns is the same curve on which the story is allowed to reveal itself. The whole cast is de
Story Under a Vocabulary Ceiling A vocabulary ceiling is a reveal schedule: dramatic structure runs on wants and gaps that need no abstract words, so a full arc stages at 250 characters and deepens book by book, and interiority arriv
Suicidal Empathy (Book) Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy (2026) is the direct emotional successor to The Parasitic Mind. Where the earlier book mapped cognitive pathogens, this one examines the affective dysregulation that makes
Taiwan 2020 Period: Late 2019 – early 2020 (90-day visa window)
Taste-bound tasks: generate vs elicit, and what twelve struck taglines taught about agent selection The same model, on the same day, audited a whole vault cleanly and then needed roughly twelve rounds to write one acceptable hero line. The gap looked like capability. It wasn't — it was a task-type d
Tesla Deep Dive — Stock, Optimus robots, Robotaxi, AI and Future Vision Just for fun, redoing the SpaceX-style research on Tesla (TSLA). Public company, no recent IPO craze, but ongoing excitement around autonomy, robotics (Optimus), energy, and AI synergies with the broa
The AI Industrial Revolution ingest; the planning question; the n=1 about-line Ingested Naval's "The AI Industrial Revolution" (nav.al/industrial) into the agentic cluster. Anchor page created at The AI Industrial Revolution; fused into Agentic Engineering (+ Condensed), Vibe Co
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson's compilation of Naval Ravikant on wealth and happiness. The frame: both are skills that can be learned, not luck or temperament you're born with. The money half is a theory of building
The Book of Elon Eric Jorgenson's The Book of Elon is a curated operating manual of Elon Musk's ideas about purpose, engineering, work intensity, company-building, and long-term civilizational optimism.
The Change Arc A positive change arc is an internal argument staged as escalating external cost: the character begins governed by a Lie, chases a Want the Lie makes sense of, and is driven by rising loss toward a Mo
The Character Web Cast each recurring character as a distinct, defensible answer to one controlling question, and the ensemble argues a single theme through its collisions instead of running ten private storylines side
The First Principles of the Story Card The irreducible rules a single-character memory scene must obey, and the two axes — character situations and memory levers — that generate every card from them.
The Floor Rose, the Ceiling Is the Job Vibe coding raises the floor of who can build software; the ceiling, correctness, security, and judgment, is what stays a job.
The Hán-Việt bridge — deep dive (linguistics, learning, and how it builds into tsumugu-ed) Verdict: Sound is one of six channels of the Hán-Việt bridge, and the weakest of them for a learner. The payload that helps a Vietnamese student of Mandarin is lexical-morphemic: they already command
The Iceberg and World as Pressure A story world earns its place only by pressing on the people inside it — constraining what they can want, do, and say — and it presses hardest through disciplined omission and hard limits, never throu
The Low Point and Catharsis The low point earns catharsis only when the reader believes the character can no longer become who the story spent its length promising they might — the loss that reads as terminal is the collapse of
The Parasitic Mind Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind is a combative defense of reason, free speech, scientific realism, and individual courage against what he calls "idea pathogens."
The Right vs Wrong Way to Work With AI The dominant failure mode when using AI for learning is not using it too much — it is using it at the wrong level. When AI chunks information, identifies connections, or evaluates what matters on your
The Savings Rate Is the Master Lever The savings rate sets the timeline to freedom more than returns do, and it is the only fully controllable lever — salary is negotiated, returns belong to the market, the gap is yours.
The Story-Card Catalog Every way a single-character memory scene can be generated — 34 archetypes a future authoring agent can select from and extend.
The Twitter Test — Close Reading of Persuasive Text Under a strict character limit, every word that survives the cut is doing a job. The Twitter test imports that constraint into reading: assume the author paid for every character, then interrogate eac
The workspace a language model thinks in A language model does its slow, step-by-step thinking in a small internal workspace. Anthropic found it, learned to read it, and even to read what the model is privately weighing.
The Wound and the Lie Interiority is one causal chain — a specific past wound breeds a false belief, the false belief produces a surface want that fights a buried need, and a character reads as a person to the exact degree
Time Beats Timing Compounding pays for an uninterrupted horizon, not clever entries: simplicity over management, fees compound against you, and getting rich and staying rich are opposite skills.
Timeline Track important developments in LLM knowledge systems, agents, context engineering, and related tooling.
Tonal Modulation A heavy beat lands in proportion to the relief around it, so the unit of emotional pacing is the run rather than the single scene: place breathers between tentpole peaks so contrast keeps each peak sh
Tsumugu Comprehensible-input generator meets graded reader, hooked into a persistent record of the vocabulary you've learned.
Tsumugu — full Vietnamese translation campaign (paused 87.6%) Verdict: Opus is translating the entire dictionary into everyday modern Vietnamese, overwriting the old-fashioned Grok bulk .vi. Characters are 100% done; overall 87.6%. Paused on the session usage ca
Tsumugu Core — graded reader meets AI-generated content Verdict: Tsumugu Core is the official next direction — a public website of AI-generated, level-graded Chinese reading (Simplified or Traditional), served to English-L1 and Vietnamese-L1 learners on in
Tsumugu Core — the Traditional-first super-app and the Textbook Companion Verdict: Tsumugu Core reframed from "AI graded reader" to the Traditional-first Chinese-learning app I wish I'd had learning Mandarin in Taiwan — a desktop-first super-app ("Pleco for computers") buil
Tsumugu dictionary: style pass shipped, corpus gets custody, display rules locked A style-review request ("update the dictionary to the new writing style") surfaced something bigger: the corpus — the project's compounding asset — lived in no repo at all. The session ended with the
Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary A Chinese dictionary built on form and story.
Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary deployed to tsumugu-ed.com Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary is now live at https://tsumugu-ed.com.
Tsumugu grammar browse fixed; roadmap cut (FSRS out, idioms in); site copy Two strands today: closing out the grammar browse (verify Composer's fixes, hand back the last bug) and a pass of front-facing copy on the Home and About pages. All edits went into the generator (tsum
Tsumugu grammar layer opens: grammar gets its own decomposition; production pressure moves to the pass The next layer after vocabulary. Deep dive over ICS-CONDENSED, OUTLIER-CONDENSED, the encoding deep-dive memo, and the GSM2 dialogue corpus, to answer one question: how do you build grammar pages that
Tsumugu maintenance: crib_diff learns to catch misquotes; 273 surface A refinement day after TOCFL A–C closed. Three research/tooling jobs ran in parallel; the headline is that the dual-crib cross-check finally became trustworthy and surfaced real misquote debt.
Tsumugu production: model tiering tested — Sonnet-as-researcher path logged Usage limits forced the question: which model writes which entries? Three measured answers in one day — a Fable sprint, a Sonnet char batch, an Opus char batch — each QA'd by random sample against the
Tsumugu production: site renders at scale, custom CJK search built — and the crc32 bug the data tests missed The dictionary was wrapped (content done), so production opened with the dictionary site.
Tsumugu Story cards — the Modified-Method-of-Loci pivot Verdict: Story cards pivot from a literary, realistic register to a single-character Modified-Method-of-Loci scene layered on the Form card's concepts. The Story rubric now derives primarily from the
Tsumugu Story cards — the technique catalog becomes the rubric's leading layer Verdict: Named-technique-per-card is now the leading layer of the Story-card rubric. Authoring picks the method(s) first, then writes the scene that satisfies as many as honestly fit — several techniq
Tsumugu-ed: Incorporating web.ygsf.com for handwriting sections with master calligrapher examples Verdict: Add a dedicated "手寫 / Handwriting" section (or sub-tab) to tsumugu-ed.com entries. Source authentic variants and exemplar characters from web.ygsf.com (以观书法) for one or two master calligraphe
tsumugu-ed.com: traffic was ~99% bots, ads ruled out, AI training crawlers blocked Started from a Cloudflare account-analytics screenshot that looked like a breakout: last 24h showed 45.11k requests, 216 MB bandwidth (+312%), 22.62k visits, 22.69k page views. Question was "this is s
Tsumugu: authoring opens (53 entries), encoding review reshapes the entry contract Same day, third act. The morning gave the corpus custody; the evening opened production: 40 new entries authored and approved (10 backbone words, 30 character entries — every character behind both wor
Tsumugu: dictionary extracted to its own repo (tsumugu-ed), deploy walkthrough ready Pulled the dictionary out of tsumugu/personal/dictionary into its own top-level project ~/Projects/tsumugu-ed — aligning the filesystem with the name already used everywhere in the PRDs ("tsumugu-ed c
Tsumugu: Grok workstream — maximum offload, QA split by independence Wedge's directive: offload everything offloadable to Grok (separate budget); Fable keeps only form, story, and judgment. Recorded as tsumugu/PRD-Grok-Workstream.md — a standing brief whose sections pa
Tsumugu: handwriting and cursive sections for the encoding dictionary New idea: add a dedicated handwriting / cursive production layer to the Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary entries. This would sit alongside the existing FORM (structure + components), story, definitions, an
Tsumugu: search + SEO done, site launch-ready (bar front-page copy) Composer's P4 + SEO came back; verified — this time through the client's real shard routing, the lesson from the crc bug.
Tsumugu: Step-4 char wave passes review, and the crib_diff comparator is mis-scoped Orchestrator review of Opus's Step-4 authoring wave — the downstream of the morning seed-gate unblock (seed-gate entry). Verdict: ship it. The work is sound, the headline claims hold against the actua
Tsumugu: the character set closes; the word gap opens (TOCFL word campaign) The seed-gate unblock (see earlier today) let authoring rip. By this snapshot the corpus stood at ~2,526 characters + ~2,910 words and the character campaign had effectively closed.
Tsumugu: the dictionary is wrapped — moving to production Calling the Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary's content phase done. Decision: wrap now, polish
Tsumugu: the seed-gate unblock, and named entities enter the dictionary Ran a status check on the parallel-wave char batch (742 entry-missing B2/C1 characters, 10 waves) and found cribbing far ahead of authoring: 92% Grok-cribbed, 84% merged, but only ~10% authored, and t
Tsumugu: the word campaign executed — 99.2% in one parallel wave Continues the campaign setup. The seed landed and four agents ran it down in a single wave.
Tsumugu: three-model bake-off settles the lanes; dual-crib cross-check goes live Lane assignments stopped being opinions today. Grok Build and Cursor ran identical bake-offs (10 word entries + 10 research cribs, fixed sets, Fable judging against the corpus bar); Grok additionally
Tsumugu: TOCFL A–C complete — every character and word, A1 through C1 The coverage campaign closed today. The Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary now holds an entry for every TOCFL character and every TOCFL word, A1 through C1.
Tsumugu: YGSF / 以观书法 research for handwriting sections Building directly on the 2026-06-16 handwriting sections journal. This entry logs findings from exploring the Outlier Handwriting & Penmanship Workshop materials (especially Days 14-19 components less
Ulysses design philosophy → tsumugu-ed Verdict: tsumugu-ed already carries the spine of the Ulysses philosophy — a semantic single-source layer (entry@1, richer than Markdown XL), an html[data-] toggle matrix that treats appearance as a sw
Universal Principles & Design Techniques — Master Scorecard Every principle from Universal Principles of Design (200) and every rule from Refactoring UI (50), scored on the Human vs AI Capability Lens: two independent 1–5 axes — H (human ownership) and AI (mac
Usable intelligence — Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8 Verdict. For controlled-vocabulary authoring behind a fail-closed gate — the tsumugu-ed and tsumugu-core content lanes — Sonnet 5 is the default author; Opus 4.8 stays the orchestrator and the fallbac
Vietnamese localization + Hán-Việt bridge: PRD, agent lanes, first data pilot Opened a Vietnamese track for the dictionary. The headline reframe: this is localization of the existing Chinese→English dictionary, not a new Vietnamese-headword dictionary — and the encoding move th
Wanting Less The spending side of minimalism: most acquisition is identity-signalling, seeing the motive removes much of the spending, and owning less converts directly into money, time, and mobility.
wnab / Wedge Needs A Budget A fork of Actual Budget into a YNAB-style envelope app with a coaching layer. Retired when the envelope ritual cost more than it returned.
WNAC / Wedge Needs A Copilot A static, local-first, AI-narrated finance dashboard. One flex number and a debt-payoff dial instead of envelopes. Method public, money private.
Writing voice — agent prose reverts to selling; the standing fix is to read the standard before drafting Verdict: Before drafting any prose for the vault or any project — posts, briefs, blurbs, titles, chrome, journal entries, chat summaries kept for reference — the agent opens 02 - System/Writing Standa