Work that survives the interruption

By the end of this track you will have

1. Step 1Two lines written before any work resumes: what the live system proves landed, and what the chat announced that is not there.
2. Step 2A task sheet a stranger could resume from cold, a done-means line at the top of it, and nothing the job needs sitting only in a chat.
3. Step 3Every temporary thing your job created listed in one register, switched off inside the system it lives in, and a line of proof beside each one, read back after the flip.
4. Step 4Every sentence your last change made false already corrected, in the same sitting as the change, and a checked date at the top of the notes your AI reads.
5. Step 5Every sitting ending on one resume line, a stand-down line for anything you are waiting on, and proof that a fresh chat picks the job up from that line alone.

The steps

Each one ends with a check you run yourself. The box is yours to tick when it passes.

1. 1
   Step 1.Trust what landed, not what the chat says

   30 minutesOpen to everyone

   Done means

   Your two lines are written and dated above the first new instruction. Landed plus missing equals the number of rows in your master list. The landed-once total matches the count the live system shows on its own screen, and the more-than-once total reads 0. If any of those disagree, you have gaps, duplicates or strays, and nothing gets imported until you know which.

   The check passed
2. 2
   Step 2.Save before the cut, and before any wait

   40 minutes

   Done means

   With the chat closed, you can name the next unstarted task from the sheet inside ten seconds, and every file a row names opens from the folder. If a row says saved and the file is not there, or the next task only makes sense with the chat open, the checkpoint failed. Fix it tonight.

   The check passed
3. 3
   Step 3.Flip the switch, do not write done next to it

   45 minutes

   Done means

   Every row in the register has a proof line copied from the system after the flip, and every timed thing shows a last run from before the flip and none since. A row whose proof says off from memory is still open. So is a timed thing with any run after your flip time.

   The check passed
4. 4
   Step 4.Fix the note in the same change

   25 minutes

   Done means

   Search the notes for the main word your last change touched. Every hit is true of the live system today, and the checked date at the top is today's. Then open the live system and confirm one of those sentences by eye. If any hit describes how things used to be, the change is not finished.

   The check passed
5. 5
   Step 5.One line that lets anyone pick it up

   20 minutes

   Done means

   The fresh chat names the task your sheet shows as the first one not started. It asks you for nothing already written in the sheet or the notes. If it asks you to explain the job, the line, the sheet or the notes is missing something. Add it and run the test again.

   The check passed