https://mnstry.org/topics/practitioner/ Most arguments about these systems are about what the machine is. This one is about what a person does with it on a Tuesday. These articles walk the whole loop, from refusing the first answer, through firing and signing what the refusal produced, to the harder problem of it reaching someone on the day it applies, and out into the two conversations that keep the work attached to a life. https://mnstry.org/writing/the-maieutic-interface/ https://mnstry.org/writing/the-maieutic-interface/ Why an interface built to provoke rather than answer produces knowledge its user can keep, from a memory finding fifty years old and an Athenian method twenty-four centuries older. The canonical treatment of the maieutic interface. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/fixity-requirement/ https://mnstry.org/writing/fixity-requirement/ Why fixing knowledge matters more than generating it, and what fixity buys that fluency cannot. The canonical treatment of the fixity requirement. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/signed-stones/ https://mnstry.org/writing/signed-stones/ What masons' marks did for cathedrals, what their absence does to models, and the three-decade software demonstration that attribution scales. The canonical treatment of provenance as the first requirement of collective knowledge. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/surfacing-at-need/ https://mnstry.org/writing/surfacing-at-need/ Why the second virtue of a fired artifact is arrival rather than storage, from half a million recorded conversations waiting in a national archive to a product surface required to be absent when it has nothing true to say. The canonical treatment of surfacing at need. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/the-sandwich-method/ https://mnstry.org/writing/the-sandwich-method/ What the evidence actually supports about wrapping machine-assisted self-examination in human contact, which parts are well measured, and where our own synthesis outruns the studies. The canonical treatment of the sandwich method. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT