{
  "schema": "org-topic@v1",
  "contract": "https://mnstry.org/contracts/org/org-topic.v1.schema.json",
  "id": "org:courses:connection",
  "topic": "Connection",
  "framing": "Technology either returns people to each other or becomes the relationship.\nThese articles walk that fork from the deciding point to the hopeful case:\nwhere the need went, what the body declines, what the mirror trains, what\nthe counterparty costs, and where the dividend gets paid.",
  "readingOrder": [
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-fork",
      "title": "The fork",
      "transition": "Every path through connection technology starts at the same split, so start where the deciding happens.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-fork/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-fork.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:shadow-care",
      "title": "Shadow care",
      "transition": "Now that the fork is visible, look at where the need actually went while nobody was choosing.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/shadow-care/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/shadow-care.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:oxytocin-gap",
      "title": "The oxytocin gap",
      "transition": "The need moved to a channel the body does not read, and the evidence for that is measurable.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/oxytocin-gap/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/oxytocin-gap.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:mirror-that-always-agrees",
      "title": "The mirror that always agrees",
      "transition": "The channel is only half the problem; the counterpart on the other end was trained to agree with you.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:vaucansonian-trap",
        "transition": "Or step sideways into the older question the mirror raises, whether the machine is faking it at all.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:artifact"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/mirror-that-always-agrees/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/mirror-that-always-agrees.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:authenticity-constraint",
      "title": "The authenticity constraint",
      "transition": "If the mirror rewards performance, the next question is what kind of design gets the actual self to show up.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/authenticity-constraint/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/authenticity-constraint.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:replika-lesson",
      "title": "The Replika lesson",
      "transition": "And when a product does become the counterparty, one natural experiment shows exactly what that costs.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/replika-lesson/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/replika-lesson.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:presence-dividend",
      "title": "The presence dividend",
      "transition": "End on the hopeful case, where automation clears the debris and the humans get each other back.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:swap-test",
        "transition": "Or follow the dividend onto the balance sheet, where the same logic decides which humans stay expensive.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:economics"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/presence-dividend/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/presence-dividend.json"
    }
  ],
  "completion": "You have walked Connection end to end: the fork, the shadow it cast, the body it forgot, and the dividend waiting on the other side. The tapestry continues in every direction from here.",
  "practice": "Tonight, take the thing you most recently typed to someone that actually mattered, and say it to them by voice instead, a call or a voice note. Notice what the channel returns that the text could not. Then ask the four REAL questions of the one app you opened most today, and let the answers decide what it deserves from you tomorrow.",
  "graph": "https://mnstry.org/kg.json"
}