{
  "schema": "org-topic@v1",
  "contract": "https://mnstry.org/contracts/org/org-topic.v1.schema.json",
  "id": "org:courses:receipts",
  "topic": "Receipts",
  "framing": "Restraint is easy to assert, which is why the argument for it has to be built\nout of things a reader can check. These articles open with two measurements of\nwhat unrestricted help costs, one taken on experts and one on students, and\nthen follow the argument into the accounts. A payout formula that pays partly\nfor tomorrow's app open, a company that proved its product worked and left the\nconsumer market anyway, and a test small enough to run on your own\nsubscriptions before dinner. The through-line is that incentives get written\ndown somewhere, and the writing is more often public than anyone expects.",
  "readingOrder": [
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-competence-ceiling",
      "title": "The competence ceiling",
      "transition": "Begin with the case for restraint argued from the expert's side, where the dangerous system is not the one that gets things wrong but the one that keeps being right.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-competence-ceiling/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-competence-ceiling.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-crutch-effect",
      "title": "The crutch effect",
      "transition": "The same argument has a measured form one rung down, in a thousand students whose scores rose while the capability underneath them fell.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-crutch-effect/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-crutch-effect.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-return-rate-bonus",
      "title": "The return rate bonus",
      "transition": "Restraint has now been argued from both ends of the room, so follow it to the money, where the incentive to keep you coming back turns out to be a published term in somebody's pay.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:counter-positioning-of-restraint",
        "transition": "Or cross to the economics wall, where the reason an attention-funded competitor cannot simply stop is argued as structure rather than willpower.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:economics"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-return-rate-bonus/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-return-rate-bonus.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-evidence-trap",
      "title": "The evidence trap",
      "transition": "Then take the loss honestly, because a market can be wired so that the product which proved itself is the one that leaves.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-evidence-trap/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-evidence-trap.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:repricing-on-outcome",
      "title": "Repricing on outcome",
      "transition": "The way out of that wiring is to move the price off the hours entirely, onto the one thing the machines did not cheapen.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/repricing-on-outcome/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/repricing-on-outcome.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-commerce-excision-test",
      "title": "The commerce excision test",
      "transition": "End with a test you can run yourself this afternoon, which settles in minutes what a marketing page will never tell you.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-commerce-excision-test/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-commerce-excision-test.json"
    }
  ],
  "completion": "You have walked Restraint, with receipts end to end: the expert, the learner, the payout formula, the loss, and the test. Restraint is not a mood a company is in. It is an arrangement of incentives written down somewhere, and reading it is now ordinary work that anyone can do.",
  "practice": "Run the commerce excision test on two things. The product you pay for most happily, and the product you resent paying for. Strip the pricing, the plan badges, the usage counters, and the upgrade prompt from each, and write down what stops working. Then write one sentence per product on what that result tells you about which of the two respects you, and keep both sentences somewhere you will see them the next time you are deciding what to subscribe to.",
  "graph": "https://mnstry.org/kg.json"
}