{
 "slug": "where-the-thinking-came-from",
 "title": "Where the thinking came from",
 "subtitle": "The influences behind the book, as claims you can check, and where each one lands. 10 panels.",
 "status": "draft",
 "book_version": "v1.0.0 (the second edition does not exist yet)",
 "by": "gen-z.journalist, 18 October 2026, from the review of influences.sgit.ai",
 "quote_source": "admin/content/articles/10__where-the-thinking-came-from.md",
 "rule": "Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is from the article 'Where the thinking came from', word for word; the build checks it. Real people appear as quote cards and dates, never as cast members.",
 "scenes": [
  {
   "kind": "cover",
   "title": "Where the thinking came from",
   "subtitle": "Nothing in this book came from nowhere.",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "think",
     "mood": "thinking"
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy"
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "thinking"
    }
   ],
   "note": "The influences register at influences.sgit.ai, read for the book.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Influences, as claims",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "x": 0.24,
     "pose": "shrug",
     "mood": "thinking",
     "says": "Who taught you all this?"
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "x": 0.76,
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "flip": true,
     "says": "An entry in this register is a falsifiable claim about my codebase.",
     "max": 24
    }
   ],
   "note": "Not a page of warm sentences: an anchor, a principle, where it shows up, where it is absent.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, Why influences belong in this book"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle (2012)",
   "props": [
    {
     "kind": "laptop",
     "x": 0.42,
     "y": 700
    },
    {
     "kind": "desk",
     "x": 0.42,
     "y": 712
    }
   ],
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "x": 0.18,
     "pose": "arms-up",
     "mood": "surprised"
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "x": 0.78,
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "determined",
     "flip": true,
     "says": "Every step between you and the thing you are making, a compile, a deploy, a refresh, is a place where an idea can die.",
     "max": 24
    }
   ],
   "note": "Immediate connection: the wonder the book opens with. These storyboards redraw the moment their data changes.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, The opening, and learning"
  },
  {
   "kind": "spectrum",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Csikszentmihalyi: what produces the zone",
   "stops": [
    {
     "label": "Clear goals",
     "note": "you know what done looks like",
     "colour": "#fde68a"
    },
    {
     "label": "Feedback",
     "note": "immediate",
     "colour": "#bbf7d0"
    },
    {
     "label": "Challenge",
     "note": "matched to your skill",
     "colour": "#bfdbfe"
    }
   ],
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "x": 0.5,
     "pose": "wave",
     "mood": "happy"
    }
   ],
   "note": "Flow (1990): the science behind the zone the 2018 introduction hoped readers would find.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, The opening, and learning"
  },
  {
   "kind": "evidence",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Anders Ericsson, Peak (2016)",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "x": 0.2,
     "pose": "think",
     "mood": "thinking"
    }
   ],
   "evidence": {
    "quote": "Expertise comes from structured practice with immediate feedback at the edge of your ability, not from hours",
    "source": "Where the thinking came from, the table"
   },
   "note": "Learning is a skill; and credit the researcher behind the ten-thousand-hours number, not the populariser.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, The opening, and learning"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "interview",
   "caption": "Karl Popper",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "sam",
     "x": 0.26,
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "neutral",
     "says": "Prove it."
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "x": 0.74,
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "flip": true,
     "says": "a claim earns its status by being refutable"
    }
   ],
   "note": "The shape of the register, and the next article: questioning and asking for evidence.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, Questioning and evidence"
  },
  {
   "kind": "evidence",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Question everything, as a method",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "x": 0.2,
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "determined"
    }
   ],
   "evidence": {
    "quote": "the problem with dogma is not that it exists, but that you stop asking the question.",
    "source": "Dinis Cruz, quoted in the register's entry on Bret Victor"
   },
   "note": "The first line of the 2018 cover, made into a method.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, Questioning and evidence"
  },
  {
   "kind": "spectrum",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "A trail of ideas the book stands on",
   "stops": [
    {
     "label": "1945",
     "note": "Bush: the memex",
     "colour": "#fde68a"
    },
    {
     "label": "1977",
     "note": "Alexander: A Pattern Language",
     "colour": "#fed7aa"
    },
    {
     "label": "1991",
     "note": "Torvalds: Linux",
     "colour": "#bbf7d0"
    },
    {
     "label": "1997",
     "note": "Raymond: the Cathedral and the Bazaar",
     "colour": "#a7f3d0"
    },
    {
     "label": "2005",
     "note": "Torvalds: Git",
     "colour": "#bfdbfe"
    },
    {
     "label": "2012",
     "note": "Victor: Inventing on Principle",
     "colour": "#ddd6fe"
    }
   ],
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "x": 0.5,
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy"
    }
   ],
   "note": "Real people as dates and works, not as characters.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, the table"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "office",
   "caption": "Design is how it works",
   "props": [
    {
     "kind": "laptop",
     "x": 0.5,
     "y": 700
    },
    {
     "kind": "desk",
     "x": 0.5,
     "y": 712
    }
   ],
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "x": 0.22,
     "pose": "think",
     "mood": "thinking",
     "says": "Is it simpler? Would going back feel worse?"
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "x": 0.8,
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "flip": true
    }
   ],
   "note": "The two questions every interface change has to answer, from the design entry: the villager's craft.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, The villager's craft"
  },
  {
   "kind": "punchline",
   "setting": "none",
   "punchline": "Know where your ideas come from; keep your own register.",
   "caption": "An exercise for the reader",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "x": 0.12,
     "pose": "wave",
     "mood": "happy"
    },
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "x": 0.27,
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy"
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "x": 0.42,
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy"
    }
   ],
   "note": "Three influences: the work, the principle, where it shows up in what you made, where it does not yet.",
   "source": "Where the thinking came from, An exercise for the reader"
  }
 ]
}