explorational · fieldwork
Field reports from the professions' own literature — one campaign per profession, same read throughout. Software engineering fits formal systems to a nebulous world; aviation drilled its openings until they became procedure. Each report is a short exact quote located as a catalogue move observed in the wild, or as an absence with the bill its omission ran up. Filter by campaign, section, move, or search.
The corpus: a curated reading collection on meta-rational software development, assembled by D. Chapman as background for his meta-rationality writing. Its own four sections are the filing system here — nebulosity (working with the nebulosity of software itself), competence (developing meta-rational competence), purposes (software's nebulous purposes), and ontology (discovering, creating, and imposing an ontology).
Tap a report to read its note. Red badges mark absences — a move that was needed, and what its omission cost.