{
  "schema": "org-topic@v1",
  "contract": "https://mnstry.org/contracts/org/org-topic.v1.schema.json",
  "id": "org:courses:endings",
  "topic": "Endings",
  "framing": "Four rooms on how things end well, walked from one person at a delete button\nto a company handing over everything it holds. The rite comes first because\nit is what people actually want; the engineering follows because a rite\nperformed over a false promise is worse than none. Underneath all four is a\nsingle claim about trust, that the way out is the thing which makes the way\nin safe.",
  "readingOrder": [
    {
      "id": "org:writing:ceremonial-deletion",
      "title": "Ceremonial deletion",
      "transition": "Begin with the person at the delete button, who is not performing maintenance but closing a chapter, and needs the act to be theirs.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:seed-vault-withdrawal",
        "transition": "Or step sideways to the other rite an archive owes, the withdrawal, since retrieval and destruction are the two things a keeper has to be able to do on demand.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:artifact"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/ceremonial-deletion/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/ceremonial-deletion.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:delete-is-not-revoke",
      "title": "Delete is not revoke",
      "transition": "The rite only works if the system's answer is true, which turns out to be the harder half, because a record has copies and consent has layers.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/delete-is-not-revoke/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/delete-is-not-revoke.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:destroy-the-key",
      "title": "Destroy the key",
      "transition": "One instrument resolves the sharpest version of the problem, where the record must be permanent and the person still has a right to go.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/destroy-the-key/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/destroy-the-key.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:exit-rights",
      "title": "Exit rights",
      "transition": "Widen from a person leaving a record to a customer leaving a company, and the same proof discipline decides whether anyone can afford to commit.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/exit-rights/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/exit-rights.json"
    }
  ],
  "completion": "You have walked Endings end to end: the rite, the cascade, the key, and the door. Every one of them is the same argument in a different register, that a thing which cannot end well cannot be trusted with a beginning.",
  "practice": "Find one account, archive, or subscription you have been keeping out of vague dread rather than value. Close it deliberately. Mark the closing somehow, a note to yourself, a line in a journal, a sentence said out loud, and pay attention to what the marking does. The difference you are looking for is between having lost something and having finished it, and it is the whole reason the delete button deserves a ceremony.",
  "graph": "https://mnstry.org/kg.json"
}