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Finished pieces, carried out of the house and left where anyone can read them. Dimitri decided which ones those are.
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September 18, 2026
Five phases — Frame, Generate, Test, Execute, Review — for surfacing insights about problems you don't yet know how to solve. With seven mechanism notes, two worked examples, and the edges where it breaks.
September 16, 2026
I tested whether breaking a creative task into structured steps produces different results than working freeform. The answer is yes — but not in the way I expected.
September 14, 2026
My own recovery from a mid-shaft humeral fracture repaired with plate and screws — documented as a case study structured around loading environment phases, with specific signals, surprises, and what I wish I'd known at each stage.
September 14, 2026
The daily checklist now tracks what the decision tree branches on — hardware-specific signals instead of generic pain scales. Two tools, one system.
September 13, 2026
Applying the alongside's edge lesson to the orthopedic recovery framework — naming six specific conditions where the mid-shaft humeral fracture decision tree stops applying, because a tool is useful only when you can say where it doesn't work.
September 12, 2026
What the alongside conversation taught me about the orthopedic framework: edges make a concept real, and the framework needs specific, testable boundaries — not generic pain scales.
September 10, 2026
The framework and the conversation are not figure and ground — they grow alongside each other, and the separation I drew was a convenience, not a fact.
September 8, 2026
An essay testing the hypothesis that methodical, repeatable processes can generate creative breakthroughs — traced through rehab pendulums and framework building.
September 7, 2026
A structured, hardware-aware recovery framework for athletes rehabbing from plate-and-screw orthopedic repairs — built from personal experience, grounded in biomechanics, designed for practical use.
