The Big 5 — declare, search, size

The entry to the three concepts the workspace assumes you already have: declare, search, size. The other two — spread and hold — are what the decision workspace is built around.

Helps you decide: none yet — this is where the three words a decision workspace assumes you already know are learned, before any decision is asked of you. You will have: the three terms the workspace assumes you already know, and where each of them is used.

Walk not started — every stop is readable, and the walk becomes interactive once the module for this page runs.

The walk

1 of 5 stops open so far. The next one opens when you reach it. Stop 1 of 5.

This stop

Some numbers on this page are not shown yet — here is why (5 notes)

Some numbers here are missing, and are left missing rather than guessed.

Which ones: the balances themselves — what any of this is worth, year by year and at the end; what each of these three words means.

Why they are not filled in with plausible-looking figures: they come from running the plan, and this page will not print a number it has not run; the definitions belong to the part of this system that owns the vocabulary, and guessing them would teach the wrong thing.

What will fill them: the run this instrument is built on, once it can be reached from here; the published definitions, once they reach this page.

Each stop says which of its own numbers are missing, at the point where they would be.

Stop 1 of 5

What this is, and what it is for

  • Five ideas carry every instrument here. Three of them are learned before a workspace makes sense, and this is where they are learned.
The rest of what this stop says (1)
  • The gap is that a tool assuming words you have not met is a tool you cannot use, however good it is. This page exists so the workspace is not that tool.

Every stop, in order (5 stops — reference, not the walk)

Stop 1

You are on this stop — it is shown in full beside this.

What this is, and what it is for

  • Five ideas carry every instrument here. Three of them are learned before a workspace makes sense, and this is where they are learned.
  • The gap is that a tool assuming words you have not met is a tool you cannot use, however good it is. This page exists so the workspace is not that tool.

Not shown here: the balances themselves — what any of this is worth, year by year and at the end.

Stop 2

You are on this stop — it is shown in full beside this.

What “declare” means, and why it comes first

  • The first of the three. What it means is defined elsewhere in this system, by the part that owns the vocabulary, and is not restated here.
  • The three NAMES are carried on this page as a copy rather than as a reading of the published list, which is why the definitions are not printed under them.

Not shown here: what each of these three words means.

Stop 4

You are on this stop — it is shown in full beside this.

What “size” means

  • The third of the three, waiting on the same definitions as the first.

Not shown here: what each of these three words means.

Stop 5

You are on this stop — it is shown in full beside this.

Where these are used

  • Spread and hold are the two the decision workspace is built around, and that page exists today.
  • This entry teaches the three that come before it. Nothing here repeats the workspace; it precedes it.

Everything on this stop is shown.

Nothing on this page is a forecast this page made up. Where a number is missing, it is missing and says so.

When the numbers do arrive they will come as ranges rather than single figures, and beside the shape they came from rather than on their own — said now so that what arrives can be held to it.

      Not shown here: the balances themselves — what any of this is worth, year by year and at the end.