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Ship at Draft Three
You have a draft that's already shippable. You're now on draft eleven, and it's worse than draft three. The protocol for stopping at the version that was already good — set before the spiral, enforced during it.
Stop-rules set before draft three. Enforced after.
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Why each iteration feels rational
The local-vs-global trap that AI accelerates. Diagnosis first.
- 02
The Pre-Set Ship Rule
Decide before draft 1 what shippable looks like. Paste-able criteria.
- 03
The Draft Three Audit
A 4-question check after draft three. Pass = ship. Fail = one more.
- 04
The Asymptote Detector
How to spot when "better" is now noise, not signal. The numerical test.
- 05
Recovery from Draft Eleven
When you're already there: how to revert to an earlier version honestly.
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The Re-Entry Card · Draft Variant
Calibrated for the next draft you start.
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