JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{"chunk": 119, "story": 14,
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"summary": "The son is taken off the road and made assistant manager of a department at fifty a week; the job is to become indispensable to the manager and able to run things without him.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly made second in command must become indispensable to their chief and ready to run things without them.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "do your work so well the chief cannot manage without you, and you could manage without the chief", "outcome": "that is what the post requires of you", "quote": "to do your work so well that the manager can't run the department without you, and that you can run the department without the manager", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 120, "story": 14,
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"summary": "The previous holder knew and loved his product and turned a rival product into an opportunity; enthusiasm lightens work; a boss is the one man who cannot do as he pleases or break his own rules.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly given authority imagines that it means they can make the rules and do as they please.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "bring enthusiasm to the job", "outcome": "it makes heavy work light", "quote": "Jack had enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the best shortening for any job; it makes heavy work light.", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "break your own rules once you are the one who makes them", "outcome": "the one in charge is the one who can least afford to", "quote": "He can make rules, but he's the only man who can't afford to break them now and then.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 121, "story": 14,
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"summary": "A manager must give what he asks and set the example, treat each man as a special case, never wound pride, lead men to see their own faults, and never miss a chance to praise.",
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"predicament": "Someone newly in charge of others must decide whether to drive them, shame them, or lead them by example and praise.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "set the example yourself by coming early and working hard", "outcome": "your people work harder", "quote": "There's no alarm clock for the sleepy man like an early rising manager; and there's nothing breeds work in an office like a busy boss.", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "hurt the pride of someone under you", "outcome": "it is almost never forgiven", "quote": "A hundred men will forgive a blow in the face where one will a blow to his self-esteem.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "tell someone the blunt truth about their faults", "outcome": "they will not believe you", "quote": "you won't shame the man you're trying to reach, because he won't believe you", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "set them on the road to seeing the truth for themselves", "outcome": "they reform before anyone else finds them out", "quote": "if you can start him on the road that will lead him to the truth he's mighty apt to try to reform himself", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "praise good work when you see it", "outcome": "it repays itself", "quote": "Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.", "stance": "do"}]},
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{"chunk": 122, "story": 14,
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"summary": "Learn about your men only from themselves; be slow to hire and quick to fire, paying a month but not keeping a man a day; never threaten; keep close to your staff and do not rule by fear.",
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"predicament": "Someone in charge has found that a person they hired is wrong for the place and is reluctant to let them go.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "let a wrong hire go at once, with a month's pay", "outcome": "a dismissed person kept on becomes a centre of soreness", "quote": "Pay him an extra month, but don't let him stay another day. A discharged clerk in the office is like a splinter in the thumb--a centre of soreness.", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "threaten those under you", "outcome": "if you do not follow through it damages your credit with them", "quote": "Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit.", "stance": "avoid"},
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{"move": "rule by fear", "outcome": "you are hated behind your back", "quote": "a man who is feared to his face is hated behind his back", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 123, "story": 14,
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"summary": "Make salesmen write in daily so they run out of excuses and hustle; watch your own faults while watching others'. A mean, adulterating village grocer is introduced.",
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"predicament": "Someone who keeps close watch on the faults of those under them has stopped looking at their own.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "make those under you report every day", "outcome": "they run out of excuses and go after results", "quote": "When a fellow has to write in six times a week to the house, he uses up his explanations mighty fast, and he's pretty apt to hustle for business", "stance": "do"},
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{"move": "let authority swell your head", "outcome": "you stop seeing your own faults", "quote": "Authority swells up some fellows so that they can't see their corns", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 124, "story": 14,
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"summary": "Since everyone else's meanness was discussed in his store but his own, the grocer thought himself the only decent man and called for public opinion; the town wrecked his saloon and ran him out on a rail.",
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"predicament": "Someone whose own conduct is the worst around loudly demands that everyone else clean up their ways.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "call for public judgement of others' conduct when yours is worse", "outcome": "the judgement falls on you", "quote": "Most men get information when they ask for it, and in the end Lem fetched public opinion all right.", "stance": "avoid"}]},
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{"chunk": 125, "story": 14,
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"summary": "Having sized up others, step back and size yourself up, crediting them with unseen virtues and yourself with unseen faults.",
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"predicament": "Someone busy judging other people's characters needs to take an honest measure of their own.",
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"advice": [
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{"move": "judge others generously and yourself strictly", "outcome": "you get a fairly accurate picture", "quote": "add fifty per cent. to your estimate of your neighbor for virtues that you can't see, and deduct fifty per cent. from yourself for faults", "stance": "do"}]}
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