One continuous cycle
The Loop
The loop is four stages, run as a cycle. Signal comes in, you make sense of it, you shape it into work, you build - and what you build feeds the next pass. It's not a one-way line; it compounds.
The four stages
- Intake - signals come in (transcripts, chats, files, GitHub issues). Run with
intake-review. - Thoughts - you make sense of them: research and synthesis that compound into chapters. Run with
thought. - Workstreams - understanding becomes an executable spec: tracks, phases, deliverables. Run with
create+iterate. - Creation - you do the creation: build from the spec, steward it, ship it. Run with
execute+finalize.
Why it's a cycle
Creation doesn't end the loop - what it produces (working code, content, crystallized workbenches) becomes new Intake. And within Thoughts, synthesis can raise "does this need more research?" and send you back for another pass. The picture of what you know grows with every pass instead of resetting.
Next: the stages, one at a time →.