Writing
Notes and essays. Each starts from a question, gives every step its reason, and ends with one line to keep. Each is filed under one of the chart’s hours.
- The first point of Aries now lies in Pisces. Why does it keep its name? Why the zero of the sky kept a name its stars no longer match, and what that says about names and origins that outlast the view they were named for.
- Why must 1, l and I look different in type for children? A child learns each character by what sets it apart, so type for children gives 1, l, I, 0 and O each a mark that no other character shares.
- A figure looks sharp on the laptop and faint on the projector. What should change before the talk? How spare contrast, thicker lines, colors that differ in lightness and labels on the lines keep a figure readable in a washed-out hall.
- An AI model reads a referral letter. In what form should it hand its answer to the code that acts on it? Why a model should return a choice, a probability and a described score instead of a paragraph, shown on the triage of a referral letter.
- Why should a new idea in mathematics start with a problem the child cannot yet finish? Following Vasily Davydov, a new idea should arrive as the answer to a problem the child already wants solved and cannot solve with the tools at hand.
- Every hour on an operating room’s schedule is booked. Why does the room still stand empty? Why a booked hour on an operating room, scanner or treatment machine is not a used hour, and how a release rule hands empty blocks to patients who are waiting.
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