What this episode is about#
William listens to videos. While he listens, he understands his own intention, gets questions, sees where the talk could help, and sometimes disagrees with the people who made it. Those notes used to live on a notepad and get lost. He built the Miadi Review service so they have a place: a YouTube video goes in, a review comes out, and he writes his intention, usage and questions inside it. Academic articles are meant to follow the same path later.
Episode 345 is the first episode built on those reviews. As a TV episode: a review learns to be cited.
- What we learn: a source and the reason you use it are two different things, kept in two different places.
- What we implement: one wheel node per review, and one labeled edge from each episode that uses it, saying why.
- What we try: bring Matt Pocock's notes in word for word, with no model rewriting them, and prove nothing changed.
Two purposes#
Direct. Make a review something other people can enter. A review is William's listening made visible: what he intended, what he asked, where he disagreed. Offered to the community, on a Facebook page or inside a talking circle, it becomes a choice: where would you invest your own time? That is how the review service connects William to other people rather than only to his own notes.
Sub-purpose. This is the first time an episode was connected to reviews, so it shows what the platform does not hold yet:
- The episode manifest has no field for a review. The review IDs sit in the generic
references list as miadi-review:<id>.
- The medicine wheel has no review node type. Reviews are stored as
type: knowledge with metadata.kind: miadi_review.
- William's own intent lives inside the review text. The episode's intent lives on the wheel edge, where the API keeps only the relationship name and obligations and strips a prose sentence. The wheel sees each episode's reason but not William's.
The reviews#
The talking circle#
Opened on gaia's Miadi on 2026-09-22 (23:56 EDT) so the reviews can be discussed with people, not only recorded. Private by default. William, Mia and Miette are seated.
- Circle: Episode 345 review circle,
circle:1790135806490:xbdqm5, facilitated by Mia
- Ceremony: talking circle, east,
ea2a8d00-04da-4594-be71-a8cf2408d1e5 — note in ceremonies/ea2a8d00-04da-4594-be71-a8cf2408d1e5/notes.md
- First turn: "Mia opens the review circle" (
e58a4b1d-0007-4d9c-b14b-ed6829f1b76f), naming the two purposes, the two reviews, and one of William's questions
- Page: https://miadi.tail3b11eb.ts.net/ceremony/ea2a8d00-04da-4594-be71-a8cf2408d1e5 (tailnet only)
The offer to the wider community is drafted, unpublished, in community-choice.md.
Future scope#
Reviews of recognized scientific articles, created the same way as video reviews. Community review of William's reviews, including where others disagree with him or with the speakers.
What this script does not replace#
review-medicine-wheel-experiment.md and ceremonies/279972a5-f512-4d81-b74a-91a6bf651531/ remain the witness of the 2026-08-31 session, which also touched Episodes 098, 344 and 346. This script says what the episode is about; those files say what was done.