# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/assessments/): Four components, none of which wants a late night. What is marked, what it is worth, when it is due, and why it is due then.
- [Design your own intervention](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/assessments/design-your-own/): The capstone. Design, and if you can arrange it run, a new crit-style activity that catches overthinking somewhere the course hasn't already looked
- [Showing up](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/assessments/showing-up/): Attendance at lectures and participation in crits, worth 20%. These are techniques and techniques need practice, with the absences and the silence both accounted for.
- [The anonymous thread](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/assessments/the-anonymous-thread/): Assignment 1, due in the mid-semester break. Post one small thing you overthought and what stopped it, anonymously, then reply to the people whose post could have been yours.
- [The log](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/assessments/the-log/): Assignment 2. A running note of every time you caught yourself overthinking and what you did about it, kept all semester and handed in after everyone's exams are over.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/): All held outdoors, each opening with ten minutes of nothing. The research behind why a spiral repeats, and where that research stops.
- [Nothing here is that serious](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/01-not-that-serious/): The opening lecture. Why we sit outside, why every class starts with ten minutes of nothing, and the one technique that makes a thought easier to put down
- [Why the spiral feels like work](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/02-the-spiral/): The science lecture. What research actually says about rumination, why worry feels productive when it isn't, and the one place the popular story runs ahead of the evidence
- [Borrowed and renamed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/04-borrowed-and-renamed/): Almost every technique in this course came from somewhere else and arrived with the label changed. Where they actually come from, what the adaptations dropped, and how to spot invented tradition
- [The empty slot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/05-the-empty-slot/): Why a spiral repeats. The research on undemanding tasks and attention residue, and the course's central claim that a loop keeps re-running because it never gets the conditions to finish
- [The blank that isn't](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/06-the-blank-that-isnt/): Doomscrolling, and the course's central suspicion. The thing that feels like it empties your head is the thing that keeps the loop running
- [Act anyway](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/08-act-anyway/): Two traditions that break this course's assumptions. A Japanese therapy that refuses to treat feelings as problems to solve, and a Zimbabwean intervention built on the idea that other people close your loops
- [What makes an intervention work](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/09-what-makes-it-work/) (draft): A forum-proposed lecture, scheduled for the week the capstone is due. What separates a technique that survives contact with a real week from one that only works in a study, and how big these effects actually are.
- [The nap, the coffee and the sweet treat](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/10-nap-coffee-treat/): Week 10, everyone else's crunch, nothing due here. So we spend it on the three things students reach for under stress, and what the evidence says about each. One of them does the opposite of what you think.
- [The loop that isn't yours](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/11-the-loop-that-isnt-yours/) (draft): A forum-proposed lecture on overthinking with other people. Talking it through helps, and the same conversation can also be the thing keeping the loop open. Both are true and there is a name for it.
- [What we didn't finish](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/lectures/12-what-we-didnt-finish/) (draft): The last lecture. A list of everything this course got wrong, left open or could not support, assembled on purpose rather than apologised for, and handed over.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/people/): Who teaches the course, who visits it, and how to reach any of them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor running most of the semester's crits and the empty-slot lecture, and marking every piece of assessed work in it.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, who designed the crits, moved the lectures outdoors, and picked a two-assessment shape over anything weekly.
- [Revathi Menon](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/people/revathi-menon/): A visiting meditation teacher, trained in the Indian tradition the course's ten-minute practice is borrowed from, who runs the week 3 crit.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/policies/): The rules that apply across the whole course. AI, attendance, extensions, what the room decides for itself, and where to get help.
- [The layered "OK"](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/01-the-layered-ok/): The opening crit. The group overanalyses a two-letter reply until it runs out of road, then works out where it could have stopped.
- [The reveal](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/02-the-reveal/): Everyone brings something small they overthought; the room guesses the ending before you tell it.
- [Ten minutes, guided](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/03-ten-minutes-guided/): The one technique with direct evidence against rumination. A meditation teacher runs it properly, once, after which the ten minutes are yours to keep or ignore.
- [Deliberately slow](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/04-deliberately-slow/): We rush without deciding to. This crit halves the speed of three ordinary actions and finds out what that does, including the one where the evidence says the opposite of what everybody assumes.
- [The sandwich](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/05-the-sandwich/): Building an incubation slot on purpose. Everyone makes and eats a sandwich in silence, with nothing else running, to find out what a mind does when you finally give it nothing.
- [How you stopped](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/06-how-you-stopped/): The other half of the reveal. The funny, undignified and occasionally brilliant things that actually got you out of a spiral, collected into something the room can steal from.
- [Aim it at the good](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/07-aim-it-at-the-good/): The same overanalysis, run on a best-case scenario instead of a worst one. Overthinking as a skill you can point, not just a habit to suppress.
- [The worry appointment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/08-the-worry-appointment/) (draft): The room's first voted pick. Booking a fixed slot for worrying, postponing everything into it, and finding out whether a loop will actually wait.
- [If, then](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/09-if-then/) (draft): Turning a vague intention into a rule with a trigger in it. The room writes if-then plans for its own spirals, then tries to break them.
- [Write it out](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/10-write-it-out/) (draft): Fifteen minutes of writing nobody will read, followed by the meta-analysis saying it barely works. The most recommended technique on the thread, held to the same standard as everything else.
- [When it helps](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/11-when-it-helps/): The crit that argues against the course. Cases where more analysis genuinely was the right call, and how overthinking behaves differently in a group than it does alone.
- [Just find out](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/sessions/12-just-find-out/) (draft): The last crit. Take a prediction you have been circling, design the cheapest possible test of it, and for some of you, run it before the hour is up.
- [Topics](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-rithikanallaparaju16/topics/): Every idea the course covers as four slide decks, grouped by subject rather than by the week it happens to fall in.