# 05 — Gaps and Open Questions **Version** v0.33.62 · 25 August 2026 **House rule** Published unresolved. Questions for the founder go to `/admin/comms.html`. --- ## Gaps (known, owned) **G1 — The full Victor register text.** The pack's `sources/` file is a faithful summary of the register's structure and closing argument; the **full verbatim text lives with the founder** (it was supplied in conversation; this environment could not retain it across a context boundary). Entry one cannot ship without it. *First ask in comms.* **G2 — Seven STATED entries have no corpus evidence.** By design (the founder's briefing documents are pending), but the site launches with 7 of 24 entries as stubs. The mitigation is §3 of `03__`: stubs are honest roadmap, with research plans published. **G3 — The founder's past publications are under-mined.** The corpus scanned here is the current estate + docs.diniscruz.ai. Two decades of earlier material — the O2 Platform era blog, OWASP talks, conference decks on SlideShare, the books (e.g. his OWASP testing-era writing) — were not reachable from this environment and are exactly where the STATED influences' traces will be found. The founder's own plan ("including doing a research on my past publications or presentations on them") covers this; the research plans in the seed JSON say where to look per entry. **G4 — No influence has a complete trace table yet except Victor's.** T2–T12 have evidence *files*, not pattern→implementation→version rows. Building each table is the site's core editorial work; the register format (01__) is the spec. **G5 — Screenshot/artwork production.** Original portraits and redrawn idea-figures (04__) need an artist pass or a generation workflow the founder approves. External-site screenshots hit the same egress constraint as the wardley pack — the `capture.js` pattern from that pack is reusable here. ## Open questions for the founder (comms threads) **Q1** — Please supply the full immediate-connection register text for `/register/bret-victor/` (G1). **Q2** — DISCOVERED confirmations: Luhmann, Christopher Alexander, Team Topologies/Cynefin, Vannevar Bush — do they belong? Any to demote to "corpus citation, not influence"? (The falsifiability of the site starts with you falsifying its discoveries. **Design & Steve Jobs: confirmed by the founder 2026-08-25** — the first discovered→confirmed transition, before the site even exists.) **Q2b** — The Design entry's anchor: which artefact is canonical for you — the "Design is how it works" quote, the MP3-to-CD whiteboard story, an Apple keynote, Ive's process, a specific product? And the personal history: when did Design-with-a-capital-D become explicit in your thinking? **Q3** — Briefing order for the STATED seven: which first? (Suggested: Neil Peart or music-and-band — the entries no one can research but you.) **Q4** — Anchors to confirm: Kevin Kelly (*What Technology Wants* vs *The Inevitable*?), Sinek (*Start With Why* book vs the TED talk?), David Rice (which year's keynote recording is canonical?). **Q5** — Are there influences you *rejected* — things everyone assumes shaped you but did not, or that you outgrew? A `/register//` with `status: counter-influence` would be unique on the web and very much in the site's falsifiable spirit. **Q6** — Personal-history detail for T4 (graphs): where did graphs actually enter — O2's code-flow work, or earlier? **Q7** — The `/map/` graph: should it live here or in the graphs sibling once it becomes a G³ demonstration? (Proposal: authored here, mirrored there.) --- This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).