MIND THE GAP
Breadcrumbs — Remaining Work
Reset version, 26 May 2026 — successor to Editorial Breadcrumbs Log AS AT V36
Everything completed in the V9→V36 pass has been stripped out. What remains is the work still to do. Editorial chapter-level work (Ch 4 rebuild, Ch 11 Olivia collapse, Ch 14 summary, renumbering) lives in the V37 Onward To-Do Tracker. This document holds the cross-cutting, administrative, publication, and post-publication work.
No prioritisation. Where the item is not self-evident, a single Why line follows.
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Editorial — Cross-Cutting
EC-04 Bowlby permission
Research current rights administrator for John Bowlby's estate. Draft permission letter for Paul's approval. Send.
Why: Bowlby quote is in copyright until 2061. Permission required before publication.
EC-05 Bibliography integration
Integrate Bibliography v2 into the manuscript after EC-04 (Bowlby) is resolved.
Why: Sequenced after permission work so the bibliography is final when it lands.
EC-07 Privacy review — full manuscript read-through
Read-through for names, dates, and identifying details before any public release. Decide what stays, what is anonymised, what is removed.
Why: BLOCKING. Touches James Wakefield, Mr [name held], Kieren, unnamed clients, specific dates, the Fuse post. Paul's call on each.
EC-12 Editorial handover document — v6
Update Editorial Handover from v5 to v6 reflecting V25–V36 work and the 15-chapter architecture decision.
Why: Carries the working-method record forward to the next phase.
Acknowledgements
ACK-01 / ACK-04 / ACAD-03 Naula — full name and contact
Find Naula's full name. Search contacts, LinkedIn, Tarmac records. If unrecoverable, decide alternative phrasing.
Why: Blocking for acknowledgements finalisation. Cannot publish with first-name-only reference.
ACK-03 Clients dedication
Decide if a separate dedication to clients is needed beyond the acknowledgements section.
Academic Chronology
ACAD-01 NLP dates
Sift emails to confirm precise NLP training start date and NLP Master Practitioner completion date.
Why: Manuscript-level chronology is closed; this is for the standalone Academic Chronology artefact.
ACAD-02 FETC start date
Sift emails to confirm precise FETC start date.
Why: Same as ACAD-01 — for the Academic Chronology artefact.
Publication
PUB-01 Nielsen Title Editor registration
Register at nielsentitleeditor.com using ISBN 978-1-0369-9170-8. Publisher field = Paul Roebuck.
PUB-03 Copyright page
Build copyright page. Format: “© Paul Roebuck 2026. Published by Paul Roebuck.”
PUB-NEW V36 subtitle propagation
Propagate the V36 subtitle (“Between AI behaviour and human behaviour”) to: cover artwork file, KDP metadata, Nielsen registration, paulroebuck.co.uk, any pre-publication marketing copy, back cover.
Why: Subtitle was corrected at V36; downstream artefacts may still carry the old wording.
PUB-NEW-2 Back cover — behaviour vs intelligence audit
Read back cover and check for any remaining “intelligence” framing that should now read “behaviour” per the V36 subtitle correction.
Marketing
MKT-01 LinkedIn series
Seven posts — slides 1–6 plus the book announcement. Paul approves each before publication.
MKT-02 Daily AI Podcast pitch
Send podcast note with copy of book.
MKT-03 Long-form article — A Day in the Life
Approve and publish the A Day in the Life blog post.
MKT-04 Landing page
Build the book's landing page on paulroebuck.co.uk.
MKT-05 Attribution discipline — supplementary documents
Apply the attribution discipline (per-chapter sign-off removal, Author's Note attribution paragraph) across all supplementary documents: Bibliography, Academic Addendum, Academic Chronology, Front Matter, blog posts, illustrated index, Calibration Brief, Methodology Paper.
Why: Manuscript portion complete at V1; supplementary documents still to do.
MKT-NEW Author's Note — plain-language attribution paragraph
Write the longer plain-language Author's Note attribution paragraph that sits alongside the title-page editorial collaboration line.
Why: Title-page line names the model and date; Author's Note tells the reader plainly what the collaboration involved.
How to Behave (next book)
HTB-01 Manuscript review
Share the existing How to Behave manuscript with Claude for a full read.
HTB-02 Opening chapter
Develop the opening: “We don't talk about that.” Carries the Two Dads material cut from Mind the Gap V37.
HTB-03 Behaviour statement — cross-book consistency
Confirm the role of the behaviour statement in both books. Mind the Gap uses it as Ch 7 epigraph; How to Behave needs its own placement decision.
Why: The statement appears in both books; the relationship between the two uses needs to be deliberate.
HTB-04 Shame-Response Continuum / NGE-FOF
Develop the wider Shame-Response Continuum framework as a foundation chapter or section in How to Behave.
Observation-Level (no immediate action)
EC-13 Working-document integrity — ongoing
Continue cross-checking compaction summaries and working-document content against source. Particularly: watch for hallucinations in summaries that would propagate forward if uncaught.
Why: Captured as working-method observation, not action item. Surfaced first by the OOAI compaction-hallucination catch.
PLACEMENT [name held] song reference
“You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” played at Ian Roebuck's funeral. Decide placement: Ch 14 grief section, dedications, or hold in record only.
Why: Logged for action but no decision taken yet.
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End of reset breadcrumbs. The fuller historical record — every completed item, every superseded decision, every cross-reference — remains in the Editorial Breadcrumbs Log AS AT V36, which this document does not replace.
Maintenance: as items complete, strike through or remove. As new items emerge, add. Keep this document as the live forward register; let the full breadcrumbs log remain the historical archive.
Maintained by Paul Roebuck, in collaboration with Jose (Claude Opus 4.7).