Version history
What remains valuable
We revise published writing the way software is revised: deliberately, in versions, with the reasoning recorded. Superseded versions stay readable here for as long as we keep them published. Revisions made before the version system live in the repository history.
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v9 · 2026-08-11 · current
Founder-approved v15 note rebuild: stable referents, clarified swap test, and human-transformation demand argument.
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v8 · 2026-08-03
Subtitle and opening line revised by the operator under the no-convenient-AI ruling: 'When generating anything is cheap' replaces 'When AI makes everything possible'.
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v7 · 2026-08-02
Guidelines v9 review: earned-use classification re-audited under the refined rule; no language change required in this piece.
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v6 · 2026-08-02
Guidelines v8 revision: no convenient AI; the doer is named (model, system, agent, automation) and earned uses kept (discourse, citation, category, definition).
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v5 · 2026-08-02
Retitle: What remains valuable, founder ruling 2026-08-03. Body unchanged.
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v4 · 2026-08-02
Retitle: new main title What stays expensive over the original statement as subtitle, founder direction 2026-08-03. Body unchanged.
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v3 · 2026-08-02
Retitle: halves swapped by founder ruling — the takeaway leads (Restraint becomes the product / When AI makes everything possible). Body unchanged.
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v2 · 2026-08-02
Retitle: statement title split into title unit at the natural seam (When AI makes everything possible / Restraint becomes the product), founder ruling 2026-08-03. Body unchanged.
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v1 · 2026-08-02
Baseline of the version system. Current state: Patagonia and Vanguard cases added to the economics argument.