JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
3a4758172d
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
64 lines
7.2 KiB
JSON
64 lines
7.2 KiB
JSON
[
|
|
{"chunk": 126, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "Taking a cure abroad, the father spent a seasick crossing befriending two hundred export steers below decks, which arrived in England in prime condition.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone away from work for their health notices, by chance, a trade their own firm has been neglecting.",
|
|
"advice": []},
|
|
{"chunk": 127, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "The father wants the export cattle trade investigated at once: rivals have been taking it, a firm must do the whole thing to do anything, and anything with a profit is in their line.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone discovers rivals profiting from a line of trade that their firm has left alone as not its business.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "take up every profitable branch of your trade instead of leaving it to others", "outcome": "a business that does not do the whole thing cannot do anything", "quote": "Unless you do the whole thing you can't do anything in business as it runs to-day.", "stance": "do"},
|
|
{"move": "dismiss a profitable opening as not your line", "outcome": "the profit goes to someone else", "quote": "it won't do to say that it's not in our line, because anything which carries a profit on four legs is in our line", "stance": "avoid"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 128, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "Think of a thing first and go for all the trade; success goes to some heads so that they use authority as a club; an assistant is blamed by both clerks and manager, and must neither explain orders nor make excuses.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone newly placed between a manager and the staff finds each side blaming them for the other's faults.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "go for all of the trade, not a share", "outcome": "that is how you get a share", "quote": "the way to get a share of the trade is to go for all of it", "stance": "do"},
|
|
{"move": "use your new authority to keep your people at a distance", "outcome": "the office fills with resentment", "quote": "a boss with a case of big-head will fill an office full of sore heads", "stance": "avoid"},
|
|
{"move": "explain your orders to those below, or excuse yourself to the one above", "outcome": "you lose your authority below, or your usefulness above", "quote": "if he explains his orders to the clerks he loses his authority, and if he excuses himself to the manager he loses his usefulness", "stance": "avoid"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 129, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "An assistant must never need telling twice and should carry the petty details for the manager; one who serves the manager well and sees the good in the clerks is helped from both sides.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone serving as a superior's deputy must win the goodwill of both the one above and those below.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "need telling twice", "outcome": "the boss would sooner do it himself", "quote": "It's easier for a boss to do a thing himself than to tell some one twice to do it.", "stance": "avoid"},
|
|
{"move": "make yourself your superior's right hand", "outcome": "the rest of the organisation helps you in turn", "quote": "An assistant who becomes his manager's right hand is going to find the left hand helping him", "stance": "do"},
|
|
{"move": "look for the good points in those under you", "outcome": "they find good points in you", "quote": "it's not hard for a clerk to find good points in a boss who finds good ones in him", "stance": "do"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 130, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "The papers show the son golfing on a working afternoon; play is dessert, not dinner, and the father warns him off the society bug.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone rising at work has begun spending working afternoons at play among an idle, fashionable set.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "let amusement take the place of work", "outcome": "you pay for it early", "quote": "Any one who lets sinkers take the place of bread and meat gets bilious pretty young", "stance": "avoid"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 131, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "Society everywhere means descent from a moneymaker long enough dead to forget his shop; those who think themselves the choice cuts prove worthless once parted from their money.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone is being drawn toward a fashionable set that looks down on anyone who works for a living.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "rate people by the family and fortune behind them", "outcome": "without their money there is nothing to them", "quote": "when you separate them from their money there's nothing left, not even their friends", "stance": "avoid"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 132, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "A boyhood friend who made a fortune in gold calls on the father under a grand new double-barrelled name.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone suddenly rich sets out to buy their way into a society that has no use for newcomers.",
|
|
"advice": []},
|
|
{"chunk": 133, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "The newly rich friend explains his plans to be the grandest of swells in an old city; the father gives him congratulations rather than warnings, since that is what he came for.",
|
|
"predicament": "An old acquaintance, newly rich, wants congratulations on a foolish plan rather than an honest warning.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "give people what they came for rather than advice they did not ask for", "outcome": "not stated", "quote": "it was congratulations and not explanations that he wanted, and I make it a point to show a customer the line of goods that he's looking for", "stance": "do"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 134, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "Settled among old families, he gilds his railings, parades in a red-wheeled carriage and leaves cards up and down the street, but finds every family out every time.",
|
|
"predicament": "A newcomer keeps calling on neighbours who are always out, never guessing that they are refusing to know them.",
|
|
"advice": []},
|
|
{"chunk": 135, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "He throws a grand opening with a band, fireworks and beer; none of the invited come, ten thousand strangers do, and the neighbours call the police, who need the reserves to clear it.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone snubbed by their neighbours throws a lavish public show to win them all over at once.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "try to force your way into a closed circle with a lavish show", "outcome": "it ends in a riot and the police", "quote": "they had to turn in a riot call and bring out the reserves before they could break up Hank's little Boston tea-party", "stance": "avoid"}]},
|
|
{"chunk": 136, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "Fined on sixteen counts, he leaves town on a special train, posting a mocking notice for his neighbours.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone whose attempt to buy acceptance ended in disgrace leaves town pretending it was their own choice.",
|
|
"advice": []},
|
|
{"chunk": 137, "story": 15,
|
|
"summary": "He blames the neighbours' manners; standing won in one world means nothing in another; good society is any congenial company, but the son should avoid people who make play their profession.",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone rising in the world must choose between congenial company and a fashionable set whose only business is play.",
|
|
"advice": [
|
|
{"move": "assume that standing earned in one world carries into another", "outcome": "it counts for nothing there", "quote": "Because a fellow cuts ice on the Arctic Circle, it doesn't follow that he's going to be worth beans on the Back Bay.", "stance": "avoid"}]}
|
|
]
|