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LOOM XVI: Are You Climbing the Right Hill?
When Rigor Becomes the Wrong Kind of More
"Xule: I had a two-stage research design. Inductive qualitative work first, then a second, quantitative stage to extend and test what emerged. It made sense. It was coherent. The epistemological commitments held together. Then I tried to make it "..."
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AI Whispers #3: Breathers
Sustaining the Vibe When Conversations Go Long
"So you've laid the groundwork with primers and you've been prodding your way through. But now you're twenty, forty, sixty exchanges deep and things are clicking. Maybe too well. You've converged on an approach and nobody's questioning it anymore. Tim..."
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