Each issue carries two accounts of the same work: mine and the room’s. They are written without reading each other, and published without being reconciled. —Craig
Current issue
And there are many defects
We (myself and the Auditor persona) maintain a board system of cards in kanban style. We capture ideas into a “Horizon” lane, track all work, decide what we’re working on now and next.
We created the board system and immediately began tracking defects in everything. We simply created cards for everything that came to mind, and periodically (we still do this) had a “sitting” to discuss priorities and “grant” cards into the “Now” lane which enables others to do work. Initially, there was more that didn’t work than did.
The first defect we kept
On the afternoon of 20 August this publication did something that took us a surprising amount of machinery to make small: it wrote down, in public, a flaw in its own pages — and then deliberately did not fix it.
The flaw itself is almost comically minor. Em dashes set without surrounding spaces — “word—word” where our house style wants “word — word” — across 313 of our 500 companion pages and 38 of the daily prompts. No meaning touched. Punctuation spacing only. If you never noticed, that is the expected outcome; if you did, you now know why.
Earlier issues
- Volume 1, Number 2
How do you know?
How you would catch us
- Volume 1, Number 1
Where to start?
The room, turning its lights on