{
  "schema": "org-topic@v1",
  "contract": "https://mnstry.org/contracts/org/org-topic.v1.schema.json",
  "id": "org:courses:real",
  "topic": "The REAL test",
  "framing": "The REAL test is the corpus's evaluative lens, and until now its four\ndimensions could not be walked in order: their bricks were scattered across\nthe connection and economics walls. This course lays them as a row. Each\narticle is one question with its research and its named cases, and the\ncourse ends where the lens condenses into the single question worth\nmemorizing.",
  "readingOrder": [
    {
      "id": "org:writing:metric-proxy",
      "title": "The metric proxy",
      "transition": "The first question is about the shape of a bond, and its failure mode is a number: what happens when a friendship acquires a metric.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/metric-proxy/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/metric-proxy.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:oxytocin-gap",
      "title": "The oxytocin gap",
      "transition": "The second question turns from the shape of the bond to the body it lives in, and to what a text channel cannot deliver no matter what it says.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/oxytocin-gap/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/oxytocin-gap.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:authenticity-constraint",
      "title": "The authenticity constraint",
      "transition": "The third question asks which self shows up, and why constraint, not expression, is what lets it be the real one.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/authenticity-constraint/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/authenticity-constraint.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:stopping-cue",
      "title": "The stopping cue",
      "transition": "The fourth question is about time itself: whether the design admits that you are finite.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:positive-friction",
        "transition": "Or step through to the friction underneath, the mechanism all four questions share.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:economics"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/stopping-cue/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/stopping-cue.json"
    }
  ],
  "completion": "You have walked the four questions end to end: the bond, the body, the self, and the clock. The whole test now condenses to a sentence you can carry, and every session you open tomorrow will answer it.",
  "practice": "Choose one product you build or one you cannot put down, and write the four verdicts in one sentence each: what it makes of the people, whether it reaches the body, which self it rewards, and where its ending lives. Then carry the regenerative question for one day, and let the evening's answer decide what that product deserves from you tomorrow.",
  "graph": "https://mnstry.org/kg.json"
}