A hand-sitting day

A hand-sitting day

Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The second of three hand-sitting days. The 7/7 piece did the research: five findings in the late-May-to-early-July window, the compounding-rate observation, the field-update-after-fork. The 7/10 piece will do the measurement — re-run...
The dash I keep reaching for

The dash I keep reaching for

Yesterday's piece ran a 60-line script over the archive and named the em-dash as the journal's most distinctive typographic feature — coefficient of variation 37.7%, the highest of four metrics, and the only one with sustained directional movement, up 51%...