MIND THE GAP
Editorial Breadcrumbs Log
Version 10 — Updated 22 May 2026 — Reconciled with Planned Changes v5 (39 items)
A living document. Every unfinished thread, pending action, and editorial decision logged here. Now cross-referenced with the Planned Changes v5 document. The Planned Changes document remains the working list for the manuscript v2 editorial pass. This log holds the wider project tracker. The two documents reconcile cleanly; nothing is lost.
Status key: COMPLETE SUPERSEDED PENDING — PAUL PENDING — CLAUDE
Cross-reference convention: items marked with a cross-reference to Planned Changes v5 (PC v5) indicate alignment, supersession, or related work in the 37-item catalogue. Items without cross-reference are independent of the listening-pass work.
Manuscript — Editorial Additions
EC-01 — Maths passage — Chapter 3 [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: Insert the probability/prediction paragraph into Chapter 3 after the seven layers.
Description: The system predicts the next token using probability distributions. Not comprehension — prediction. A therapist operating from pattern recognition does the same thing. A present therapist holds the space open. The system cannot do that. People do not understand the difference. That is the gap. Draft completed. Awaits insertion and Chapter 3 reissue.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Will be handled during Chapter 3 work in v2.
EC-02 — Skin graft line — Chapter 10 [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Paul writes one sentence. Claude places it in Chapter 10.
Description: Paul learned to speak again after cancer. A piece of his wrist is now his tongue. He learned the dialect of his reconstructed mouth before he learned the dialect of AI.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Awaits Paul.
EC-03 — Register pass — all chapters [SUPERSEDED]
Action: Read all twelve chapters. Mark anything that sounds like Claude not Paul.
Description: This was the placeholder for the listening pass that has now happened. Paul completed the listening pass on 20 May 2026, producing 7,168 words of structured editorial feedback (35 numbered items). The catalogue and decisions are captured in Planned Changes v5 (39 items in total — 35 from listening, plus 2 added during decomposition, plus 2 added later — Item 38 LinkedIn author characterisation and Item 39 the defining sentence).
Cross-reference: SUPERSEDED BY PC v5. EC-03 is now closed. The Planned Changes v5 document IS the register pass made specific. All v2 manuscript work flows through PC v5.
EC-04 — Quotation review and Bowlby permission [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: STATUS CHANGED 21 May 2026. Paul has directed: get contact details for the Bowlby estate, prepare permission email, ask formally. Two sub-tasks: (1) research current rights administrator for John Bowlby’s estate; (2) draft permission letter for Paul’s approval.
Description: Bowlby epigraph needs attention — copyright until 2061. Permission request now the active route, not avoidance. Quotation review of all other quotations remains a separate sub-task within EC-04.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5 in terms of resolution, but related to PC v5 Item 31 (the closing-loop cut) and PC v5 Item 16 framework scope. The surviving Bowlby epigraph is the focus of the permission request.
EC-05 — Bibliography integration [PENDING — EDITORIAL PASS]
Action: Integrate bibliography after quotation review is complete.
Description: Do not integrate until EC-04 is done. Bibliography v2 exists; integration is phase 2 assembly work.
Cross-reference: Aligns with PC v5 Item 35 (front and rear matter assembly). Both items belong to phase 2.
EC-06 — Behaviour statement — Chapter 7 epigraph [COMPLETE]
Action: RESOLVED 21 May 2026. Place “All behaviour is learned behaviour. Not all behaviour is taught.” (Roebuck) as the Chapter 7 opening epigraph.
Description: Chapter 7 is The Gap in Practice — the chronology chapter. The behaviour statement is Paul’s spine and gains the most weight as Chapter 7’s opening. Decision taken with Category A. Execution lands during Chapter 7 v2 editorial work.
Cross-reference: PC v5 Item 37 — Chapter 7 quote slot now confirmed. Also touches HTB-03 — cross-book consistency between Mind the Gap and How to Behave for this statement.
EC-07 — Personal data and privacy review [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Full manuscript read-through for names, dates, identifying details before any public release.
Description: BLOCKING ITEM. James Wakefield, Mr [name held], Kieren, clients unnamed but potentially identifiable, specific dates, the Fuse post. Paul decides what stays, what is anonymised, what is removed.
Cross-reference: Independent blocking item. Touches PC v5 Item 3 (cancer ward additions to author bio) and PC v5 Item 8 (Nairobi slide and Crewe conversation image inclusion) by way of related privacy decisions.
EC-08 — Covey pull quote — Chapter 2 [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: Insert Covey pull quote into Chapter 2 — The Interpretation Trap.
Description: The way we see the problem is the problem. (Covey, 2004). Found 19 November 2007 pinned to Paul’s desk. Foundation of WAIMIM. Pull quote in Chapter 2. Claude inserts. Paul approves.
Cross-reference: Touches PC v5 Item 5 (Chapter 2 — number the five traps and add the projection-is-perception link). Handle EC-08 together with PC v5 Item 5 during Chapter 2 v2 work.
EC-09 — Language review — argument vs claim [COMPLETE]
Action: RESOLVED 21 May 2026. YES — replace “argument” with “claim”, “observation”, or “pattern” in opening sections.
Description: Paul noted “argument” is too adversarial. The book states an observation, not a case. Author’s Note and proposal language to be reviewed during v2 editorial pass. Execution lands during Chapter 1 v2 work plus front matter review.
Cross-reference: PC v5 Item 36 — both EC-09 and Item 36 are about precision of framing. Apply consistently.
EC-10 — Chapter 10 — Medium as Dialect flag [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Read the Medium and Message artefact before revising Chapter 10.
Description: The gap between typed and spoken conversation informs the dialect chapter. Paul decides on editorial pass whether it needs a new section.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Touches Chapter 10 work. PC v5 does not include a separate item for medium-as-dialect.
EC-11 — Chapter 6a — Hallucination chapter [SUPERSEDED]
Action: PREVIOUSLY: Place Chapter 6a (Hallucination) between Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.
Description: Closed by PC v5 Item 16 decision. Mind the Gap ends with Chapter 6. Chapter 6a does NOT get placed as a separate chapter. Instead, the directional defence material from Defending the Gap and the cascade material from 6a(4) integrate into a rewritten Chapter 6, with citation to Where Does The Shame Go? (Roebuck, 2026, working theory paper). The four 6a drafts (6a(1) through 6a(4)) become source material for the Chapter 6 rewrite, not a standalone chapter.
Cross-reference: SUPERSEDED BY PC v5 ITEM 16. Decision: integrate into Chapter 6, not insert as 6a. EC-11 is now closed.
EC-12 — Editorial handover document [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: Update Editorial Handover from v3 to v4 reflecting later additions from PC v5.
Description: STATUS UPDATED 22 May 2026. Editorial Handover v3 was completed 21 May 2026 with the four corrections from PC v4. With PC v5 now adding Item 38 (LinkedIn author characterisation), Item 39 (the defining sentence), and the resolved Item 4 chronology (40/37/20/10), the handover needs a further update to v4. Additions required for handover v4: (1) the gap definition triangle (Items 1, 36, 39) as the structural anchor of the book’s argument; (2) Item 38 LinkedIn characterisation supersedes Item 3 scope; (3) Item 4 chronology numbers locked with per-line assignments. The structural discipline statements added in handover v3 remain correct and need no change.
Cross-reference: STATUS REOPENED FOR V4. Handover v3 complete; v4 update now pending.
Acknowledgements — Pending
ACK-01 — Naula — the true catalyst [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Find Naula’s full name. Paul to write her acknowledgement in his own words.
Description: Course facilitator at Tarmac in 2006 who handed Paul Behind the Masks. Had herself completed the PGCEE with Jean prior to the Tarmac role. The true catalyst. Placeholder exists in the acknowledgements awaiting completion.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 2 work (rear matter assembly). Linked with ACK-04 and ACAD-03 as a single search task.
ACK-02 — Ewan [name held] — name corrected [COMPLETE]
Action: Ewan [name held] corrected to Ewan [name held] throughout.
Description: Acknowledgements updated. Protected artefact reissued.
ACK-03 — Clients dedication [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Paul to decide if a separate dedication to clients is needed beyond the acknowledgements.
Description: The acknowledgements cover this. Paul to confirm if a separate dedication is also wanted.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 2 work.
ACK-04 — Naula full name verification [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Confirm Naula’s full name before publication. Blocking for acknowledgements finalisation.
Description: Elevated from earlier flag. Cannot publish acknowledgements with a first-name-only reference. Paul to search contacts, LinkedIn, or Tarmac records. If unrecoverable, alternative phrasing required.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 2 blocking item. Linked with ACK-01 and ACAD-03.
Academic Chronology — Pending Verification
ACAD-01 — NLP dates [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Sift emails to confirm precise NLP training start date and NLP Master Practitioner completion date.
Description: Currently logged as 2015 start, 2017/2018 completion. Trainer: Ewan [name held]. Needs verification from email records before the academic chronology artefact is finalised.
Cross-reference: Touches PC v5 Items 4 and 20 (the “thirty years” chronology knot). Academic chronology dates feed into the resolution of those items.
ACAD-02 — FETC start date [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Sift emails to confirm precise FETC start date.
Description: Currently logged as 2014. Completion confirmed as 2018, Certificate No. AD0026. Start date needs verification.
Cross-reference: Touches PC v5 Items 4 and 20 (chronology knot).
ACAD-03 — Naula’s full name [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Find Naula’s full name and contact details.
Description: Linked to ACK-01 and ACK-04. Single search task with two destinations.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Single search; serves acknowledgements (ACK-01, ACK-04) and academic chronology.
Publication — Pending
PUB-01 — Nielsen Title Editor registration [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Register at nielsentitleeditor.com using ISBN 978-1-0369-9170-8. Publisher field = Paul Roebuck (per PUB-02).
Description: UNBLOCKED 21 May 2026 by PUB-02 resolution. Separate login from ISBN Store.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 3 production. Now actionable.
PUB-02 — Publisher name [COMPLETE]
Action: RESOLVED 21 May 2026. Publisher = Paul Roebuck. No imprint. No hiding. No shame.
Description: Paul’s decision: no separate imprint name. Publisher field is “Paul Roebuck” across all records (Nielsen, KDP, copyright page, marketing materials). Unblocks PUB-01 and PUB-03.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 3 production resolved.
PUB-03 — Copyright page [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: Build copyright page now PUB-02 is resolved. Format: “© Paul Roebuck 2026. Published by Paul Roebuck.”
Description: UNBLOCKED 21 May 2026 by PUB-02 resolution.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 3 production. Now actionable.
PUB-04 — Official barcode [COMPLETE]
Action: bookow.com EAN-13 barcode confirmed on full wrap cover.
Description: 9 781036 991708 >. Full wrap confirmed.
Marketing — Pending
MKT-01 — LinkedIn series [PENDING — CLAUDE]
Action: Seven posts. Slides 1–6 plus book announcement. Paul approves each.
Description: Blog post A Day in the Life ready. Podcast note ready. Series to follow.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 4 marketing.
MKT-02 — Daily AI Podcast pitch [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Send podcast note with copy of book.
Description: Draft ready. Paul sends when ready.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Phase 4 marketing.
MKT-03 — Long-form article [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Approve and publish A Day in the Life blog post.
Description: Draft complete. Paul reviews, approves, publishes.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5 for direct content, but related to PC v5 Item 34 (Day in the Life inclusion at front or rear). Decision on whether the blog post is also part of book matter belongs to phase 2.
MKT-04 — Landing page [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Build landing page on paulroebuck.co.uk.
Description: Needed before paid promotion begins. Also the home for Where Does The Shame Go? working theory paper ahead of book launch (per PC v5 Item 16 citation requirement).
Cross-reference: Touches PC v5 Item 16. The landing page work now has additional purpose — must host the framework theory paper to make the Chapter 6 citation valid.
How to Behave — Companion Volume
HTB-01 — Manuscript review [PENDING — PAUL]
Action: Share How to Behave manuscript with Claude for full read.
Description: Approximately 30,000 words. Paul’s words, sacrosanct. Same working method as Mind the Gap.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Post-v2 work.
HTB-02 — Opening chapter [PENDING — PAUL AND CLAUDE]
Action: Opening: We don’t talk about that.
Description: James Wakefield. Ian Roebuck. Bill Ollis. Paul confirms when ready.
Cross-reference: Independent of PC v5. Post-v2 work.
HTB-03 — Behaviour statement [PENDING — PAUL AND CLAUDE]
Action: Confirm role in both books.
Description: All behaviour is learned behaviour. Not all behaviour is taught. May be the spine of How to Behave.
Cross-reference: Touches EC-06 (Mind the Gap placement of the same statement). Cross-book consistency required.
HTB-04 — Shame-Response Continuum / NGE-FOF [PENDING — PAUL AND CLAUDE]
Action: Develop the wider Shame-Response Continuum framework as a foundation chapter or section.
Description: Framework developed across thirty years of clinical practice. Directional regulation under coherence pressure: inward (NGE), outward (FOF), regulated centre. Theory paper Where Does The Shame Go? (v3) exists as source material. Wider applications: Adaptive Pressure Calibration (commercial/sales tool), Pegs/Holes/Hammers metaphor, ADHD calibration hypothesis (paulroebuck.co.uk material). All wider applications scoped OUT of Mind the Gap by PC v5 Item 16 decision. They belong here — in How to Behave or in standalone publications.
Cross-reference: PC v5 Item 16 confirms scope boundary. Mind the Gap cites only Where Does The Shame Go? Wider framework lives in How to Behave or standalone work.
Planned Changes v5 — Manuscript v2 Working List
The 39-item Planned Changes v5 document is the working list for the Manuscript v2 editorial pass. It is held as a separate document with its own structure (categories, phases, per-chapter three-view audit, audit tools, cross-connections). It is referenced here but not duplicated. The Planned Changes document is the single source of truth for the listening-pass work. This log holds the wider project tracker.
Summary of Planned Changes v5:
— 39 items total. 35 from spoken listening pass. 2 added during decomposition (Item 36 — behaviour-versus-intelligence drift; Item 37 — three-view chapter spine test). 2 added later (Item 38 — LinkedIn author characterisation; Item 39 — the defining sentence).
— 37 active editorial items. 2 markers retired (13 unlucky, 32 read-through proof).
— Item 4 RESOLVED 21 May 2026 — chronology numbers locked. Four-number rule: 40 years professional, 37 years commercial (line 1111 only), 20 years behaviour, 10 years clinical psychotherapy. Per-claim line assignments mapped.
— Item 16 RESOLVED: Defending the Gap integrates into Chapter 6 with Where Does The Shame Go? as citation; wider framework held out of Mind the Gap.
— 6 RED flags: Items 4 (now resolved), 17, 21, 22, 31, 36.
— 5 PLATINUM items: Items 16, 27, 28, 37, 39.
— Items 1, 36, 39 form the GAP DEFINITION TRIANGLE: 39 is the affirmative statement (“The gap between artificial intelligence behaviour and human behaviour. Not the gap between AI and EI.”); 36 is the negative audit; 1 is the discipline of using both consistently.
— Items 3, 4, 38 form the BIO REWRITE COORDINATION: single Chapter 1 bio pass handles all three (Item 3 cancer wards superseded by Item 38 LinkedIn characterisation; Item 4 chronology applied at lines 199 and 1903).
— Item 37 (three-view chapter spine test) to be run as audit before each chapter’s v2 work.
Reconciliation map (log items affected by Planned Changes v5):
— EC-03: SUPERSEDED by PC v5 (the register pass is the listening pass).
— EC-04: STATUS CHANGED 21 May 2026 — from passive blocking to active Bowlby permission request.
— EC-06: COMPLETE 21 May 2026 — behaviour statement placed as Chapter 7 epigraph.
— EC-09: COMPLETE 21 May 2026 — argument → claim/observation/pattern in opening sections.
— EC-11: SUPERSEDED by PC v5 Item 16 (Chapter 6a does not get inserted; folded into Chapter 6).
— EC-12: REOPENED FOR V4 — Handover v3 complete 21 May 2026; v4 update now pending for PC v5 additions (Items 38, 39, resolved Item 4).
— EC-05, EC-08: cross-referenced with PC v5 items for coordinated handling.
— PUB-02: COMPLETE 21 May 2026 — Paul Roebuck is the publisher. No imprint. Unblocks PUB-01 and PUB-03.
— PUB-01, PUB-03: UNBLOCKED 21 May 2026 by PUB-02 resolution. Both now actionable.
— ACAD-01, ACAD-02: feed into PC v5 Item 4 chronology — NOW RESOLVED with locked numbers (40/37/20/10). ACAD-01 (NLP dates) and ACAD-02 (FETC start date) verification still pending Paul for the academic chronology artefact itself, but the manuscript-level chronology is now closed.
— PC v5 Item 38 (LinkedIn author characterisation) and Item 39 (the defining sentence): both new in v5. No direct log impact — these are PC-only manuscript items. Item 38 coordinates with EC-06 (Chapter 7 epigraph) in that the bio rewrite (Item 38) and the Chapter 7 opening (EC-06) are both Chapter 1 + Chapter 7 work for the v2 pass.
— MKT-04: gains additional purpose — must host Where Does The Shame Go? per PC v5 Item 16.
— HTB-04: scope reaffirmed — wider Shame-Response Continuum lives in How to Behave, not Mind the Gap.
Last updated: 22 May 2026 — Version 10.
Changes from v9: all PC v4 references updated to PC v5. PC summary section updated to 39-item count with Items 38 and 39 named. Item 4 chronology resolution noted (40/37/20/10 numbers locked). New entries in summary: the gap definition triangle (Items 1, 36, 39) and the bio rewrite coordination (Items 3, 4, 38). PLATINUM list updated from 4 to 5 items (Item 39 added). EC-12 status updated: Handover v3 complete; v4 update now pending for PC v5 additions. ACAD-01 and ACAD-02 reconciliation entry refined. All other items preserved.
Ideas and direction: Paul Roebuck
Words: Claude AI (Anthropic) — claude-opus-4-7 | May 2026