Permission for the week
Write which markets you are allowed to touch and which you will leave alone. A plan that can hunt anywhere is not a plan. This line is finished before charts come out of the folder.
Classroom sheet
The playbook we put on the table.
Every cohort, clinic, and Saturday workshop uses the same order of work. You do not need software to complete it. You need a page that still makes sense when the room is empty.
Thesis in two sentences
One sentence for what must remain true. One sentence for what you are not claiming. If you need a paragraph, the idea is not ready for size.
Ordinary loss
Name the loss that would still leave next week usable. We treat this as a household number, not a slogan. If you cannot write it, we do not compute units.
Invalidation sentence
The exit is a condition a colleague could understand without seeing your drawing. Only after the sentence exists do you mark a reminder on the page.
Size as arithmetic
Units follow from ordinary loss and distance to invalidation. Rounding up because the idea “looks clean” is how the sheet gets abandoned later.
If-then for the first hour
What you will do if the idea is not there. Flat is an acceptable answer. Rewriting the thesis after the open is not.
Review question
Before the trade, write the question you will answer afterwards. We want “Did I follow the sentence?” not “Was I right?” The journal circle exists to keep those apart.
Printed sheets are handed out in class. If you want a seat at a table that uses this order of work, write the desk or start with the six-week studio.