What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Opening lecture
What a note is, why most feedback isn't one, and why this course tests the claim across six domains instead of one.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Specificity and falsifiability
The two properties that make a note different from an opinion, and how to tell whether your own note has either of them.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
The work, not the person
Why a specific, falsifiable note can still be a cruel one, and how to keep a note aimed at the choice instead of the chooser.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Anonymity and power
Why blind review exists, what it actually buys, and what it doesn't fix.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Critiquing the brief
Turning the method one level up, from the work to the instructions that produced it --- and what changes when the author of the brief has power over you.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
What twelve weeks of notes add up to
A retrospective on the method, the domains, and where it held versus where it only looked like it held.
Week 11 · 3 May 2027