From d89d6a2e5f4c659d09b7870dedb259e2e9524c9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:28:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/9] Simplify Awakening into a single human entry path --- src/index.njk | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/index.njk b/src/index.njk index ebc5659..dc5fda0 100644 --- a/src/index.njk +++ b/src/index.njk @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: layouts/splash.njk title: Awakening · The Interdependent Way -description: The canonical Awakening of The Interdependent Way, presented as the public threshold into the Preamble and living knowledge system. +description: The canonical Awakening of The Interdependent Way, presented as the public threshold into the Way. --- {% set awakenings = generated.canon.units | where("title", "Awakening") %} {% set awakening = awakenings[0] %} @@ -13,14 +13,12 @@ description: The canonical Awakening of The Interdependent Way, presented as the {% if awakening %}
{{ awakening.content | replace("Awakening \n", "") | replace("Awakening\n", "") }}
- Read the Preamble - Enter the living system - Exact source and provenance + Enter The Way
-

Canon {{ generated.canon.source.repository }}:{{ generated.canon.source.path }} · lines {{ awakening.startLine }}–{{ awakening.endLine }} · digest {{ awakening.hash | truncate(18, true, '…') }}

+

Continue into the Way tree. Canon units unfold in their source order; Article Labs stay closed until you choose to open them.

{% else %}

hmmm

The selected canon did not produce an Awakening unit. The release gate must treat the missing threshold as a broken public contract.

-
Read the PreambleEnter the living system
+
Enter The Way
{% endif %} From f9e095872f443fc90b5503c58a2b0b215f8f30cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:29:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/9] Make the human homepage follow the Way reading spine --- src/home/index.njk | 44 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/home/index.njk b/src/home/index.njk index 2d790e7..594b5ff 100644 --- a/src/home/index.njk +++ b/src/home/index.njk @@ -1,46 +1,40 @@ --- layout: layouts/base.njk title: The Interdependent Way -description: The living public knowledge system for the canon, distributed textbook, deliberate tensions, research, applications, and implementation projects. +description: The human-facing entrance to the Way, its textbook, narratives, research, and implementation work. permalink: /home/ --- -
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Canon · textbook · interpretation · research · implementation · frontier

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A way through complexity without pretending the tension is gone.

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The Interdependent Way is a dense living text and a constellation of attempts to test, explain, implement, challenge, and preserve it. The Preamble is directly available here; the distributed Interdependency textbook now restores chapters Zero through Seven into one reading sequence.

-
Start with the Way treeRead the PreambleRead the Textbook
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Read · test · apply · build

+

Start with The Way. Branch outward when you need more.

+

The Way tree is the human reading spine for this site. Canon units open in source order. Rights Article Labs sit inside the relevant units and stay collapsed until you want interpretation, limit tests, applications, or research. The textbook, narratives, projects, and research are deeper paths—not prerequisites for entering.

+
Enter the Way treeRead the Textbook
12 + 1
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AI and machine readers

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One bounded context before inference

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The machine-oriented context preserves the content contract, exact canon and textbook copies, public biography, provenance, and the boundary between source vocabulary and actual measurement.

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Read the AI contextRead concise machine instructions
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The Way is the spine

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Read the source before choosing a branch.

+

The Way tree keeps the source structure visible without forcing every layer onto the screen at once. Open a canon unit to read it. Where a reviewed Article Lab exists, open that nested box only when you want to examine the tension around the Article.

+
Open The Way

Distributed Interdependency textbook

Chapters Zero through Seven

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Eight chapters now form one continuous technical reading path across metapat, ucns, edcm, skill-lib, interdependent-lib, ptcna, a0, and zfae. Each chapter remains bound to the license, status vocabulary, and authority of the repository that carries it.

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Eight chapters form one technical reading path across the current architecture. Each chapter remains independently revisable in the repository that carries it.

Open all eight chaptersBegin at Chapter Zero
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Eight rights-article laboratories

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From canon excerpt to public practice

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All eight Rights articles now have a canon-bounded path through exact excerpt, note conversation, reductio ad absurdum, worst and best practices, applications across eleven domains, and a study-only research field with explicit coverage gaps.

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Open the Way tree and Article LabsRead publication drafts
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Living narratives

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Test the Way against lived situations.

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Fictional and narrative work explores competence, consent, failure, adulthood, and interdependence without becoming canon or research evidence.

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Enter Living Narratives
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Living narratives · fiction under constraint

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What happens after the copying is finished?

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Jack and Diane begin an alternating journal after completing handwritten copies of the Way. Their fictional record tests adulthood, competence, consent, failure, and interdependence without becoming canon or research evidence.

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Read Jack & DianeEnter Living Narratives
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Implementation and inquiry

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Follow the work outward.

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Projects, artifacts, works, and research are places where the ideas are implemented, challenged, measured, or extended. They remain distinct from the source they examine.

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ProjectsResearchWorks
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Current field snapshot

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{{ generated.repos.publicRepoCount }} public repositories · {{ generated.canon.units.length }} canonical units · {{ generated.textbook.chapterCount }} textbook chapters

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Project data was generated {{ generated.repos.snapshotAt | dateOnly }}{% if generated.repos.fallback %} from the last verified snapshot{% endif %}. Canon digest {{ generated.canon.source.contentSha256 }}. Textbook complete: {{ generated.textbook.complete }}.

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-

hmmm

The textbook now has a complete public reading spine, while each chapter remains independently revisable in its source repository. The Article Lab now excludes legislation, standards, guidelines, frameworks, and other non-study records from Research. Its retained study claims still need full-text locators, design-specific appraisal, stronger dissent, replication, field studies, disability-led critique, and non-Western evidence.

+

hmmm

The public reading spine is usable, but the surrounding system remains deliberately revisable. New evidence, stronger dissent, better implementation, and clearer explanation can change the branches without silently rewriting the source.

From 8028f3aa9311ce10a5efb43d933fadf1248aa5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erin Spencer Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:29:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/9] Hide machine metadata from ordinary human navigation --- src/_includes/layouts/base.njk | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk index baccefa..effe1aa 100644 --- a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk +++ b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -17,15 +17,13 @@
- + The Interdependent Wayliving public knowledge system