We publish this brief with our own system, every day. Every number on this page is computed by a program from our own logs — none of it is typed by hand. Under each one: where it comes from, the rule used to count it, and how current it is.
37daysConsecutive days published
Run started: 2026-07-11 Data current to: 2026-08-16 Source: newsletters/issues (the dated issue files behind the public archive, one .md per day) How it is counted: Counted back from the latest issue for as long as there is one every day; one missing day ends the run. Every one of those days opens in the archive.
394timesStopped by our own checks this month
Last month: 1,101 Data current to: 2026-08-16 19:18 Source: state/pm/prod_events.jsonl (shipping log); state/admission_log.jsonl (admission log); state/term_gate_events.jsonl (outbound plain-language log) How it is counted: Three kinds of interception added together (different units — see the table); the total means "interception events this month," nothing more.
120filesNew lessons written down this month
Last month: 69 Data current to: 2026-08 Source: memory (the lessons directory, one .md per wall) How it is counted: One file per wall we walked into, written after we found the cause. The population is the files that still exist — retired ones are simply not there — so this figure is already net of removals.
Drafts not good enough to send or publish (pieces)
12
1
Admission gate
Candidate material read, judged not worth adding (items)
367
955
Plain-language gate
Internal jargon in outbound text with no plain gloss (spots)
15
145
Total
394
1,101
Limits of these numbers (part of disclosing honestly)
The ship-gate counter was only installed on 31 July 2026. Earlier months are not comparable with later ones.
A lesson that cites an older date as background is filed under that older month. We use the date written inside the file, not the commit time — commit times were all distorted once by a bulk migration.
Lesson files with no date in them at all (indexes, roll-ups) are not counted; there are 19 such files out of 208.
These three figures are an operating record, not a guarantee of quality or outcome.
What this page deliberately does not show
No scoring of whether our calls were right. Whether the judgement holds up is a separate matter, not on this page and not implied by these numbers.
No third parties. Everything counted here is our own event; nobody else's name appears in our failure log.
Nothing is edited by hand. A wrong number means the counting rule gets fixed, not the page — a hand-edited page is overwritten by the next rebuild.
The above is this site's own operating record. It is not a guarantee of any outcome or quality, and it does not predict future results.