Somewhere to Put It

A fourth scrolling explainer, and the first that applies the method to a real problem rather than an invented clinic. Somebody posts the best paragraph they have written in a year to the Second Renaissance forum, nine people reply, and a year later nothing they said has changed what the project believes — not for want of intelligence or goodwill, but because there is nowhere to put a good thought. The piece is the case for giving every claim in the project's strategy an address, and for letting a machine do the filing so that contributing costs one sentence rather than five diagrams. It is a sibling to the trilogy, not a part four — someone handed only this link, with no series behind them, still gets a complete read. Every diagram comes from the group's actual five trees.

An earlier version of this piece, Whose Map Is It, retold a single internal argument about the word "throughput". It was replaced as the way in — it assumed a reader already inside the trees — but it goes somewhere the accessible version deliberately does not, so it now stands on its own at explainers/whose-map-is-it/ as the deeper cut, linked from the series index and from Somewhere to Put It.

All four explainers also had their running text reset — larger, at the size of the annotations inside the drawings rather than a size below them, and in Literata, so prose and graphics read as one voice and the page looks the same on every machine instead of picking a different serif on each.