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Older than the systems
Clay, wax, paper, a digital key: the materials changed, the idea didn't. Model it once, and hold every system up to that.
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Built to write, built to read: why the same award is stored twice
On graduation day, thousands of awards are written one at a time; on planning day, ten years of them are read at once. Merchants in Venice kept the same facts in two books for the same reason, five hundred years ago.
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Press Play, or pick a chapter. Turn on Pause and think to stop for one question at the end of chapters.
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Where next?
You've seen why the same award is stored in two shapes. Now try it yourself.
Think it through
The four Pause and think questions, for a class or a team. Open one to see the answer.
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