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Edalism is meant to be read as one long piece, split into numbered sections. You can read it essay by essay from the index, or all on one page.

Every essay starts with a short status line:

• created / updated: when it was first written and when it last changed.
• status: how finished it is. Notes are rough jottings, draft is complete but unpolished, in progress is still being expanded, finished is as done as anything gets, and abandoned is left up for the record.
• confidence: how sure I am of the main argument, from certain down to remote. Speculative pieces are thinking out loud, and emotional means it’s an opinion more than an argument.

Notes appear in the margin beside the text on wide screens and at the bottom of each essay on smaller ones. Hover over a link to another essay to preview it.