# What did not work (the interview) (the 10-page edition, online)

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# What did not work (the interview)

**On stage:** all nine.

**Figure:** ruv-sgit's strip, the researcher interviewing deck about the claims that did not hold.

**Dev** *(rueful)*: I built a tool to freeze the finished slides, so nothing could change them on stage. I never ran it.

**Narrator.** The talk was planned in parts.

**Deck** *(overwhelmed)*: Only the first part was ever finished.

**Storyteller** *(rueful)*: My turn came between deadlines, and I missed the moment the talk was split into its parts.

**Narrator.** One miss, and what it cost. In the night I froze the slides, and five minutes later the researcher proposed a correction to a figure on them. When the freeze lifted, nobody carried the correction back in, and the out-of-date figure reached a slide in the talk. The checks found it; the freeze hid it. The lesson for your first week: when you freeze something, write down what is waiting to go in when you unfreeze it.

**Narrator.** The talk needed more rounds than one day gave it. The checks worked, and they also missed. Saying where is part of the method.

*Dramatised. Rests on the talk's register and on each member's own debrief.*

**Rests on** [C027](#claim-C027) [C029](#claim-C029) [C030](#claim-C030) [C031](#claim-C031)

## The numbers in this chapter

From the researcher's register (`claims/register.json`).

- **C027** The part locks and their state at the hold:

- planned:

- part_1: **18:30**
- part_2: **19:30**
- part_3: **20:00**

- lock_tool: **admin/build/lock.py, 4a2481b at 17:54**
- state_at_18:44: **part 1 final since 18:30 but not locked; parts 2 and 3 in progress**
- locked_by_end_of_day: **0**
checked
- **C029** The talk's own claims register:

- claims: **320**
- built: **2026-10-29T18:20Z**
- grades:

- A0: **13**
- A1: **23**
- A2: **182**
- A3: **31**
- A4: **11**
- A5: **12**
- A6: **48**

- holds:

- holds: **210**
- holds in part: **55**
- not checked: **52**
- does not hold: **3**

- kinds:

- measured: **105**
- own-site: **100**
- event: **67**
- position: **26**
- observation: **18**
- guess: **4**

checked
- **C030** The talk's three claims that do not hold:

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- id: **amazon-q-two-days-live**
- where: **the article only**
- finding: **no capture says two days; reports date release to clean version about a week**

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- id: **asrs-100k-a-year-1-8-million**
- where: **talk:unreported, slide:unreported, the article**
- finding: **NASA's own briefing: 121,128 reports in 2025, over 2.3 million since 1981; 1.8 million is stale**
- on_stage: **no: no beat or slide at 298be4e carries it (talk.json has no 'unreported' beat)**

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- id: **story-r5-surface-smaller-more-mature**
- where: **the story tree only**
- finding: **no source for 'smaller'**

checked
- **C031** $17.4M, the average annual cost of insider risk, on the talk's definition slide:

- on_stage: **$17.4M (Ponemon for DTEX, 2025 edition), written at 00:40 (1f7c633) and never changed**
- at_source_2025: **$17.4M, 'up from $16.2M in 2023' (dtex.ai blog, 2025 report)**
- at_source_2026: **US$19.5M, the 2026 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report (ponemon.dtex.ai landing page)**
- correction_proposed: **a082c52, 02:52: the talk's researcher proposed the exact replacement text to deck (evidence/proposals/deck-talk-changes.md)**
- freeze: **02:47: the editor, in deck's session: 'do not touch the deck. talk.json and the slides are frozen from now on' (team/deck/requests/researcher__before-tonight.md, deck's 03:00 update); D01 in the editor's register from 04:12 (91772e6)**
- freeze_lifted: **14:07, for the framing only (c9ced4e, conductor-notes.md)**
- after_the_lift: **the definition slide file has no commit after 00:40; talk.json had 8 commits after 14:07, none touching the $17.4M cue**
checked

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