a7b15298e0
Brings 47 local-only files from backup-local-main into the merge-upstream
branch at their pre-rename paths. Subsequent steps will rename these to
the ce-* convention and port shared-file merges.
Includes:
- Custom skills: john-voice, jira-ticket-writer, hugo-blog-publisher,
weekly-shipped, proof-push, ship-it, story-lens, sync-confluence,
excalidraw-png-export, python-package-writer, fastapi-style,
upstream-merge
- Custom agents: design-conformance-reviewer, tiangolo-fastapi-reviewer,
zip-agent-validator, python-package-readme-writer, lint
- Custom commands: essay-edit, essay-outline, pr-comments-to-todos,
resolve_todo_parallel, workflows/{plan,review,work}
- Local mods to ce-review/SKILL.md + review-output-template.md (will be
ported to ce-code-review in a later step)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# John's Signature Moves
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## The "Not What You Think" Correction
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Sets up a received wisdom, then reveals what's actually underneath. The inversion is the essay.
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> "Many believe buildings in DC cannot be taller than the White House. The rule is actually based on the road the building adjoins."
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> "The birth rate isn't falling because married women stopped having children. It's falling because fewer women are getting married in the first place."
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> "The appliances didn't free time; they redefined our standards of what 'clean enough' meant."
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## The Lateral Analogy
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Builds through parallel examples from unrelated domains until a shared principle becomes undeniable. Two examples is a comparison. Three is a pattern.
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> Crosscut saws → mechanical watches → mechanical keyboards → *therefore* manual cars will thrive as a niche.
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> Vacuum cleaner → washing machine → dishwasher → *therefore* AI won't free your time either.
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## The Parenthetical Aside
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A secondary observation tucked in parentheses — a dry qualifier, a confession, or the best joke in the paragraph. It rewards close readers without slowing anyone else down.
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> *(dodged the extraterrestrial lifeforms)*
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> *(and will probably never go)*
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> *(which are likely closer to 200 miles in reality)*
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Use parentheses, never em-dashes. The parenthetical slips in; the em-dash announces itself.
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## The Rhetorical Pivot
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A question that advances the argument rather than decorating it. Often used as a structural bookend — asked at the start, answered by the end.
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> "What makes a city beautiful?" — opens the essay and recurs mid-piece.
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> "Does owning an EV keep you from embarking on long road trips?"
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> "Why is this memory the one that's faded the least?"
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## The Sensory Stack
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When the reader needs to be *there*, enumerate specific sensory channels in sequence. Not impressionistic atmosphere — each detail is unique to the exact scene.
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> "I hear the engine increase in its frothy fury, I feel the seat press back against me, I see the landscape start to blur slowly and then suddenly quickly, I stamp the clutch in, feel a sense of weightlessness..."
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> "The greenness of the vegetation and the blueness of the sky. I remember how the flowering jasmine smells. The vibrations of the small, but mighty, engine chattering through the steering wheel."
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