- How this book was made
- Foreword
- 1. The Game Was Never Intelligence context, not intelligence, is the real lever
- 2. The Fuller the Chat Window, the Less You See a crowded window makes the model see less — keep it lean
- 3. The Cheap Catalogue and the Expensive Library an index in front; the documents left on the shelf
- 4. Hand Over the Watch cross a boundary with a summary you own, not a transcript
- 5. The Part, Not the Play give each step only the context it needs, when it needs it
- 6. Send a Scout send a second chat to do the heavy reading; keep only its report
- 7. Lighten the Ship shed an overloaded session before it sinks your thinking
- 8. Plain Text Outlives Everything keep the work in plain text you control; render it pretty on demand
- 9. The Label That Does the Work a standard header lets the tool handle a file without opening it
- 10. One Clock, Many Faces one master; every slide, email and report a view of it
- 11. Load the Branch, Follow the Chain give a fragment its lineage; settle what everything rests on first
- 12. Feed the Pigeonholes file each gain back into your canon, so quality compounds
- 13. Never in One Place copy your canon, keep its history, keep a copy off your machine
- 14. Count Before You Cut measure where the effort actually goes before you trim
- 15. Don't Send a Closing-Time Question to the Dissertation Desk match the tool — and the answer — to the task
- 16. Don't Be the Draw-Boy encode the rote rule once; keep yourself for the judgement
- 17. The Number Nobody Checked reconcile the one figure everything rests on
- 18. Don't Think to Tell; Think to Learn build alignment by testing understanding, not briefing
- 19. Stop the Line you are the calibration — interrupt the moment it veers
- 20. Build the Gate, and Keep It a gate before anything irreversible — and keep reading it
- 21. The Mountains That Weren't There don't let a confident guess harden into a recorded fact
- 22. How Can I Make It Break? trust what survives attack, not what you tried to confirm
- 23. What I'd Still Improve the honest limits — the judgement you can't hand off
- Afterword what we should have called it
- A. The Diagrams
- B. Start Tomorrow
- C. The First Thirty Days
- D. Gates & the Lean Audit
- E. The Source-Trust Card
- F. The Front-Matter Schema
- G. The Glossary
- H. Seeds for the Mind
- I. The Symptom Index
- J. The Accountability Card
- K. The Risk Dial
- L. Regulatory Tripwires
- M. The Practice Programme
- The Companion Field Guide free to download at thesecondopinion.uk/guide
- Going Deeper