Becoming Jonah

trigger

"a blog post about how your blog posts sound, scored with an XML rubric"

what it is

Recursive metacognition with an LLM. You reflect on your output, then reflect on your reflections, then build a rubric to score them, then write about the rubric. Inside the whale, examining the whale. The recursion is seductive because each level feels like insight. The problem is publishing it before you have a body of work that demonstrates what the recursion produced.

what it signals

instead

Keep the rubric. Use the rubric. Publish the work the rubric produces. The rubric becomes infrastructure, not content.

refs

• 2026-02-19-voice-rubric.md (moved to docs/internal/archive/ice/)