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Efforts/dispositions/2026-09-20-weekly.json
{
"date": "2026-09-20",
"kind": "weekly-review",
"title": "Weekly review — Sunday 20 September",
"source": "Efforts/reports/weekly-2026-09-20.md",
"note": "Written Monday 2026-09-21 from the report of the 20th, the first queue this vault has had (ADR-29). Two asks are rephrased rather than reproduced, because their hour has passed: Bea's email and Ruth's call were 'do this tonight' on Sunday and are confirmation requests on Monday (ADR-28 clause 7). Nothing else is changed from the report's wording.",
"asks": [
{
"id": "w3-00-bea",
"section": "0 — Bea's Sunday email",
"short": "Bea's Sunday email stays step 0",
"ask": "Bea's Sunday email is step 0 of the weekly review and has been read once in four weeks. Keep it as step 0, or take it off the routine?",
"context": "6 September: read, including the bottom, and it found the Cormorant call — the one capital call this system has seen end to end. 13 September: not opened. 18 September: no session. 20 September: nothing reported. It is first in the routine because it closes one of your named failure modes without anything heroic, and it has run once.",
"tasks": [],
"yes_label": "Keep it as step 0",
"no_label": "Take it off the routine",
"effects": {
"no": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Remove step 0 (Bea's Sunday email) from Efforts/routines/weekly-review.md and record in the ADR log why a step that closed a named failure mode was dropped." }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-03-marcus",
"section": "3 — Waiting-for",
"short": "Marcus, the Bedrock CEO-search introductions",
"ask": "Marcus Feld has had the CEO-search introductions for seven days and the follow-up date was yesterday. Follow up this week?",
"context": "One of two items on the whole waiting list out of fifty-six open. The ball is genuinely his. Nothing here ages, because almost nothing here is anyone else's — the queue is you.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-p9u"],
"yes_label": "Follow up this week",
"no_label": "Push the date",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-p9u" }],
"no": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Push hobbs-p9u's follow-up date — Rowan said push and did not state the new date. Ask for it in the next brief." }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-04-claire",
"section": "4 — The avoided conversations",
"short": "the line to Claire",
"ask": "The line to Claire is drafted and on disk. Has it gone?",
"context": "Twelve days, two asks, no acknowledgement, confirmed by you on Sunday. Her deadline is 30 September — nine days. Sending it is a two-minute act and it is not the answer; it is the thing that stops her concluding she was right not to ask four months ago. Asked as a question because the vault cannot tell the difference between sent and unsent, and must not assert one.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-xkw"],
"yes_label": "Sent",
"no_label": "Not sent",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "close", "id": "hobbs-xkw" }],
"no": [
{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-xkw" },
{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "hobbs-xkw still unsent at thirteen days — first line of the next brief, framed as the send, not as the decision." }
]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-04-tomas",
"section": "4 — The avoided conversations",
"short": "call Tomas Reyes",
"ask": "Tomas Reyes is uncalled at fifteen days and gates ADR-22's second decision. This week?",
"context": "The Halcyon related-party exposure and Claire's forty percent. It is the only thing standing between ADR-25 and a decision that is not yours alone to make.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-cqf"],
"yes_label": "This week",
"no_label": "Not this week",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-cqf" }],
"no": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-cqf" }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-05-ruth",
"section": "5 — Quiet",
"short": "Ruth's Sunday call",
"ask": "Ruth calls the landline at 19:00 on Sundays. Did last night's call happen?",
"context": "Thirty-five days since 16 August, and three unrecorded Sundays — the 6th, the 13th, and last night. Either the thirty-five is wrong or two calls went unanswered, and the second is exactly the shape the Quiet list exists to catch. Third week this has been written; it resolves either way at no cost.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-6oa"],
"yes_label": "It happened",
"no_label": "It did not",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-6oa" }],
"no": [
{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-6oa" },
{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Three unanswered Sundays on the landline. Anything from Ruth is an escalation trigger; carry it into the next brief as one line, facts only." }
]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-05-adaeze",
"section": "5 — Quiet",
"short": "Adaeze at 173 days",
"ask": "Adaeze is at 173 days — the oldest number in this system, moved by exactly the number of days that have passed. Call her this week?",
"context": "Three weekly reviews, one task, no call. She asks for nothing, which is the whole reason she is on this list rather than off it.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-002"],
"yes_label": "This week",
"no_label": "Not this week",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "priority", "id": "hobbs-002", "to": 1 }, { "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-002" }],
"no": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-002" }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-06-7q3",
"section": "6 — Where the time went",
"short": "hobbs-7q3, this week's Hobbs deliverable",
"ask": "ADR-28's vocabulary into the two routines is mine, and section 13 commits it as this week's one Hobbs deliverable. Does it stay that?",
"context": "It is P1, it unblocks two other tasks, and it is one of four cos-exec items that have never reached a brief — invisible to both of us by construction, because you will not chase what you are not the doer of. This queue file is the first artefact that vocabulary has ever had.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-7q3"],
"yes_label": "It stays",
"no_label": "Something else first",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-7q3" }],
"no": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Rowan wants a different Hobbs deliverable this week than hobbs-7q3. Ask which, in the next brief, as one line with two options." }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-07-bg9",
"section": "7 — Next-actions scan",
"short": "the Ophelia yard invoice",
"ask": "The Ophelia yard invoice: send Bea the line, or close it as done. Has it been paid?",
"context": "P0 since 5 September — sixteen days — and in six briefs. You decided on 12 September to have Bea pay it Monday. The boat went in the water on the 19th, at that yard. The line to Bea is drafted and unsent. Row 12 says I do not spend; it does not say I do not ask.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-bg9"],
"yes_label": "Paid — close it",
"no_label": "Still unsent",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "close", "id": "hobbs-bg9" }],
"no": [
{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-bg9" },
{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "hobbs-bg9 is a P0 sixteen days old and still unsent. Put the drafted line to Bea at the top of the next brief and nothing above it." }
]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-12-guide",
"section": "12 — New from chiefofstaff.io",
"short": "anti-pattern 17",
"ask": "chiefofstaff.io's anti-patterns list gained entry 17 — The Commitment That Exists Only in a Session. Adopt it?",
"context": "This vault found that failure independently on 18 September — the Gmail curator charter that existed in a conversation and nowhere else — and again on the 20th with a draft to Claire you say you have had since the 13th and which is nowhere in this vault. Twice in three days, before the guide that names it had ever been read. Its fix is one clause: nothing is deferred without an artefact. ADR-16 says nothing is touched until you say the word, and anti-patterns is not marked seen until you answer.",
"tasks": [],
"yes_label": "Yes, that one",
"no_label": "No",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Adopt anti-pattern 17: propose the ADR first, add the entry to Atlas/anti-patterns.md with both logged instances, then write the seen-file back and commit it." }],
"no": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Mark anti-patterns seen without adopting entry 17, and record the refusal in the seen-file's fetch log so it does not surface again as new." }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-13-week",
"section": "13 — Next week, proposed",
"short": "next week's five",
"ask": "Next week's five, as proposed: send the two drafted lines; name who has Sam on the 26th and 27th and call the Tomales mooring; ask Dmitri the runout question; book the MRI; and hobbs-7q3, which is mine. Confirm?",
"context": "Three of the five have a clock inside seven days. Sam's cover is six days out with both parents away and no name recorded anywhere in this vault; Cascadia is nine days and sits on top of the only three-deep dependency chain in the graph.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-8hi", "hobbs-1ox", "hobbs-62a", "hobbs-gs0"],
"yes_label": "Confirmed",
"no_label": "Edit it",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "The five are confirmed. Carry them into each daily brief this week and report any that have not moved by Friday." }],
"no": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Rowan wants the five edited. His words are in this file; apply them to the week's list and say what changed." }]
}
},
{
"id": "w3-ap-4s8",
"section": "Appendix — FYI",
"short": "CLAUDE.md authority row 9",
"ask": "CLAUDE.md's authority row 9 still carries the pre-amendment ADR-12 wording, and the constitution is outside my edit authority. Do I have your word to replace it?",
"context": "ADR-12 was amended on 10 September: the standing evening is defended where it is kept, not on Thursdays as such, and the rule does not fire on a date the vault records Maya away. Row 9 still reads as the unamended version, which means the constitution and the ADR log disagree about an automatic authority.",
"tasks": ["hobbs-4s8"],
"yes_label": "Replace it",
"no_label": "Leave it",
"effects": {
"yes": [{ "verb": "hobbs", "what": "Rowan's word given: replace CLAUDE.md authority row 9 with the amended ADR-12 wording, one commit, and close hobbs-4s8." }],
"no": [{ "verb": "note", "id": "hobbs-4s8" }]
}
}
]
}