A university with a pulse. This week's headline is next week's lab. Drop in a current event — a paper, a news item, a thing you noticed — and watch the OPA Filing Protocol turn it into a teachable skeleton: the building it answers first, the question underneath it, the three gauges, the honest asterisk, the assignment. This is the shape of how we do it. The kitchen behind it cooks every week.
▸ Build a case-study skeleton
Not a finished case study — a skeleton. Same seven questions we run by hand for every one of the 21 in the archive. Fill what you know; leave the rest.
Privacy StripRegulatory LimboHypocrisy FlipNuclear OverreactionRounding ErrorQuiet Opt-InPower PlayControlled BurnIncentive ShapeNot a wreck — a discovery
This is the skeleton — the shape, not the finished case study. Copy it, take it to a chat, and flesh it out. The full case study + its place in the sequenced syllabus is the premium side, below.
Where the free method ends and the kitchen begins
● Free, forever
This builder, and every lab & prompt builder on campus
The method itself — the Filing Protocol, the Three Gauge Test, GFAS
The individual case studies, as proof it works
The manifesto, the doctrine, the whole "how the sausage is made"
★ Premium (the recurring value)
The sequenced syllabus — the order, the prerequisites, the spine that turns 21 demos into a course
The living feed — a fresh, built case study within days of the news that matters, every week
The course wrapper — assignments, a path, a cohort, a credential
✓ Saved locally. (Stripe + the real list plug in here later — this seam is dormant on purpose.)
▸ Three looks — the same method, three modes
Take a current event, wrap it, understand it, pull something out. Teach the front · build from the front · be the front.
Seven steps, run on every case study since February. The builder above is just these questions, asked in order:
1 · BuildingWhich college's question does this answer first? That's its home; everything else cross-lists.
2 · NumberNext available section in that building (4.<bldg>.<n>).
3 · Cross-listEvery other building that can teach from it.
4 · ClassifyThe Weekly Wreck taxonomy — or "not a wreck, a discovery."
5 · ThreadWhich arc it joins (or start a new one).
6 · IndexUpdate the master index (100.24).
7 · FileThe Quantum Sandwich does not accept unfiled case studies.
A note from the builder
Single developer. About to be a 49‑year‑old a father and solo builder.
If you see something wrong, please let me know — I’ll change it as soon as I can. I’ll credit you if you want the credit.
Some labs are better than others; a few have obvious broken bits I’m still working through. Some were built early, some late — they don’t all look the same, but they share a feel.