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The Atlas

Knowledge has a shape.

Eight worlds, twenty four languages. Every subject is a constellation you fall into: one idea at the centre, everything it contains in orbit, all the way down to the single question you came for.

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8Locales
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The eight pillars

What this is

Faragiri is an atlas of what can be learned. Every subject on it has a position rather than a place in a queue: the world it belongs to, the broader idea above it, and underneath that the single specific question somebody actually arrived asking. Nothing here was collected from elsewhere and rewritten. Each page is written in the language you are reading it in, by somebody working in that language, which is why the Persian pages are not the English pages moved across.

Why a map and not a course list

A course list answers the question of what to buy. A map answers the question of where you are, and that is the question most people actually have. Somebody who cannot yet name the thing they are missing cannot search for it, and a list of courses is no use to them at all, because it assumes the naming has already been done. On a map the thing you did not know existed sits next to the thing you came for, and noticing it costs nothing.

The price of a map is that it will not tell you what to do next. It will only tell you what is there and how the parts sit against each other. Every page here ends on the question it leaves you with rather than on a summary of itself, and following that question is the whole of how this is meant to be read.

The eight worlds, and what each one hands you

Eight worlds, one tree

None of the eight comes first, and each hands over a different kind of material

They sit on a track rather than in an order, because no reader arrives at the top of this and works down. Everybody enters at one question, in one of the eight.

One tree
  • Language
  • Design
  • Media
  • Code
  • Systems
  • AI
  • Marketing
  • Business
  • LanguageThe words and the endings themselves, in the language being learned
  • DesignA decision with values attached: a scale, a spacing, a name
  • MediaSettings, and what changes at each one on the same scene
  • CodePrograms short enough to paste and current enough to run
  • SystemsThe commands, and the order to ask them in when something stopped
  • AIThe prompts quoted whole, with a reason for each clause
  • MarketingOne worked example, carried through with the arithmetic shown
  • BusinessThe mechanism under a number, and never advice about the number

The track hides the seams, and the seams are real: a slow page is Code and Systems together, a product page is Design and Marketing, and a brief is Business and Language. Most actual work sits between two of these rather than inside one.

Language is the largest of the eight and the only one where the material is the thing itself: the words, the endings and the sentence patterns, each with a gloss and a sentence written for it. Design is the world where a decision has values you can copy, a type scale with its numbers and a spacing with its pixels. Media is settings and what changes at each one, the same invented scene at two apertures. Code is programs short enough to paste and current enough to run.

Systems is the commands themselves, and more usefully the order to ask them in when something has stopped answering. AI is the prompts quoted whole, with a reason given for each clause in them. Marketing is one worked example carried through with real arithmetic rather than a principle stated twice. Business is the mechanism underneath a number, and it stops short of telling anybody what to do with their own money, which is a line this site does not cross.

Where to start, named

Four depths

Each rung answers a different question, and only the bottom one is the question people arrive with

The tree is four deep everywhere. Reading downward is the slow way in; the fast way is to enter at the bottom and let the shape assemble behind you.

  1. 04One questionAnswered in the first two sentences, then explained. This is where almost everybody actually arrives.Start here
  2. 03A group of questionsWhere the material starts: the moves, with their values, and what breaks when they are taken out of order.A lesson, not a summary
  3. 02A subject you would nameThe thing somebody says they are learning, and the order its parts have to be taken in.The map, and it teaches
  4. 01A worldWhat the whole field is made of, and which parts of it are places rather than subjects.Read this second

It says nothing about length. A leaf is frequently longer than the world above it, because a single question answered properly takes more words than a division explained once.

Start at a leaf, not at a pillar. Pick the question you actually have today, open the page that answers it, and then read the one link at the end that names the question you have instead. Do that three times. The shape of the world you are standing in arrives on its own that way, attached to things you now know, and that is the only way it ever arrives.

Opening a pillar and reading downward is the slower path and almost nobody finishes it, because the top of a subject is the part that makes least sense before the bottom of it does. The index below is ordered for browsing rather than for study, and a pillar page is worth reading second.

What is not here

There are no courses, no certificates, no accounts and nothing to buy. There is no discussion thread, because a page that gets corrected when it goes out of date is a different object from a post that was true on the day it was written and stays there. There is no ranking of anything against anything else.

A page shorter than four hundred words is held out of the index rather than published thin, so a subject that has not been written properly yet is missing here instead of being gestured at. A locale whose tree is written only to the topic layer says so in the language switcher rather than quietly serving a machine translation. Both of those cost traffic and both are deliberate.