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This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule. I wrote about why I'm posting there.

A method for reading a professional field: search past the databases, sort what you find into three bins, and name the silence precisely.

Read it in a Gemini client at gemini://adjb.smol.pub/mapping-a-practice-landscape, or in a browser at adjb.smol.pub/mapping-a-practice-landscape.

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