The record
Library
What has been learned, written so that it outlives the person who learned it.
The distinction
- Systems in Practice holds evidence of implementation: what was built and still operates.
- Library holds accumulated knowledge: what was learned, written for use by others.
One is a standing description. The other is a growing record.
Case studies
Bounded narratives of a specific problem solved, at the depth an expression page only summarizes.
One case study. Further engagements are documented as they conclude.
Essays
Point of view. Argument rather than report.
- The MAX Potential Manifesto
Why potential is a property of environments rather than of individuals, and what follows from taking that seriously.
- Operating Philosophy
Six beliefs that govern how the work is done, and the question each one produces.
Two entries. Added to as the thinking develops.
Frameworks
The working tools, specified. Evidence that the thinking is real and transferable.
- The MAX Potential Approach
The five stages, the development loop that runs inside them, and the relationship between the two.
- The Expression Framework
The five questions an environment has to answer before it is published as an expression of the approach.
Two frameworks documented. Others are in use and not yet written down.
Research
Underlying study and source work.
Nothing published yet. The collection is listed so the gap is visible rather than hidden.
The record is what the work leaves behind.
The Library is downstream of everything else. It grows when an engagement or an environment produces something worth writing down, which is a slower rate than a publishing schedule and a more honest one. If the timing is not right to work together, this is the part of the institution worth staying close to.