For years I described what my work costs to people who had nothing in their heads for the description to land on. They nodded and kept nothing. Nothing moved until I stopped describing and put the work in someone's hands,
A mistake in the structure can be caught in three places: in the sketch, by someone who could have built it; in the build, by me; or in a client's hands after it ships. For years only the last two
For years the thing that confirmed my work was money, and money has no mood, no history with me and nothing it needs back. When the income went, the reading went with it, and what was left was people, who
Two things get filed under being seen: a person responding to the fact that you made something, and a person able to tell you which part of it works. Only the second one carries information, and I spent years reading
A person who has been told often enough that his read is wrong stops trusting his own read on his own work. So he attaches himself to other people's projects, not for the company, but for the witness: someone whose
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.
