Six lenses over everything walked so far. The methodology below is measured; the calls are advisory — argue with them, that argument is the strategy work.
[ LENS 1 · THE SEESAW ]
Exploration ↔ application balance
EXPLORATION4
APPLICATION2
Tilt 0/100 toward neither — the seesaw is near balance.
[ LENS 2 · THE EVOLUTION TRACKER ]
Where the field sits in its cycle
DISCOVERYREFINEMENTAPPLICATIONSATURATIONRENEWAL
Refinement: ideas being tested and hardened; the tributary map shows which bets are consolidating.
[ LENS 3 · THE TRIBUTARY MAP ]
Where the river branched
Electronic Computation in Education
died out · mom -73
Turing's Unfinished Work
died out · mom -80
Automata and Nonnumerical Computation
died out · mom -84
Community Studies and Prediction
died out · mom -88
Full tributary map →
[ LENS 4 · THE CHALLENGE MAP ]
Blockers — the breadcrumbs of progress
Blockers surface as papers decompose — every breakthrough started as one of these.
[ LENS 5 · OBSERVER IMPACT ]
Who could unstick the quiet branches
Electronic Computation in Education
Education Technology and Computer Science
Turing's Unfinished Work
Biology and Computer Science
Automata and Nonnumerical Computation
Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Community Studies and Prediction
Sociology and Data Science
[ LENS 6 · TRANSITION READINESS ]
The calls: invest · hold · pivot · disinvest
Electronic Computation in Education
hold
Turing's Unfinished Work
hold
Automata and Nonnumerical Computation
invest
Community Studies and Prediction
invest
Philosophy in Medical Education
invest
Intelligent Machines
invest
Advisory, grounded in momentum, volatility and the unexplored columns — not verdicts.