Refresh virtues-revisited essay: survey + personality radar integration

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Summary

Refreshes the Software Virtues, Revisited essay (writings/software-virtues-revisited.md) to incorporate canon that landed after the essay was first published — specifically the seven-phase Quality Attribute Tension Survey method, the dual-state (current + desired) framing, the DOLCHEO Constraints/Observations/Opens output types, the oddkit runtime contract, and the personality-test/radar-chart framing with the worked-example SVG.

The first draft closed with "what I'm building next." The system kept moving; the closing was stale.

What changed

• Top blockquote updated to land the full arc — matrix → survey → personality-test reframe — in one paragraph.
• What This Becomes Next → What This Became. Replaces the four-bullet forward sketch with a compressed description of:
  • the seven-phase shape (Stage → Ility Selection → Phase-Weighted Ranking → Tension Surfacing → Sacrifice Acknowledgment → Output Encoding → Re-Run Triggers, named not respecified)
  • dual-state framing (current + desired in one pass)
  • DOLCHEO output: Constraints for desired state, Observations for current state, Opens for gaps as roadmap
  • oddkit runtime contract: preflight, gate, challenge, encode, validate wired to phase boundaries
• New section: The Survey Is a Personality Test for the Product. The audience-facing reframe and the essay's new payoff. Includes:
  • the personality framing (radar with one axis per ility, polygon = project's shape)
  • tension-opposite axis ordering (the silhouette is the tradeoff record by construction)
  • MoSCoW scale rationale (categorical matches the level decisions are made at)
  • dual polygons (desired = solid; current = dashed) — the radar is the roadmap, visualized
  • the embedded worked-example SVG from canon (pilot-stage authentication service)
  • three things the picture makes visible: gap is roadmap, tension-opposite shows tradeoff structurally, honest profile is asymmetric
• Where to Go Next gains an entry pointing at klappy://canon/methods/quality-attribute-tension-survey.
• Frontmatter:
  • derives_from adds canon/methods/quality-attribute-tension-survey.md
  • tags add tension-survey, personality-radar
  • hook, description, og_description, twitter_description refreshed for social-graph parity with the new arc

What was preserved intact

Original load-bearing sections retained without edits:

• A Question from a Partner
• What the Article Got Right (the ten virtues list, the central no-single-objective-function claim)
• What the Article Only Sketched (the 21-of-45 named pairs observation)
• What the Matrix Looks Like (four relationship types, phase weighting, three uses)
• Article Lacked an Operator
• Honest Is Overwhelming
• What I Stand By (the five-claim central thesis)

The voice is unchanged. The five-claim thesis is unchanged.

What was deliberately not done

Three Opens from odd/ledger/2026-05-10-software-virtues-canon-package remain pending operator review and are NOT addressed in this PR:

• O-open P1 — observability-class virtues inclusion in the matrix
• O-open P2 — strength of the ODD tie in "Article Lacked an Operator"
• O-open P3 — MoSCoW / Hundred Dollar Method positioning at the operational level

Each is its own decision; bundling them here would have widened scope without resolving them.

Reversibility

Canon prose, single-file change. No code, no SDK lock-in, no schema migration. Revert is a follow-up PR; the original content lives in git history. Social-graph metadata changes (og/twitter descriptions) will refresh on next crawl.

Diff size

1 file changed, 144 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Closes the stale forward-looking arc; opens the door for the standalone personality-test essay teased in the survey canon to land as a non-technical entry point downstream.

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Note

Low Risk
Low risk: prose-only updates in a single markdown essay plus metadata tweaks; main risk is broken links/rendering of the embedded SVG in downstream publishing.

Overview
Updates writings/software-virtues-revisited.md to reflect the now-shipped Quality Attribute Tension Survey method, reframing the essay’s arc from “what I’ll build next” to “what this became”.

Adds a new personality-test framing with a dual-state (current vs desired) radar chart, including an embedded worked-example SVG, and refreshes frontmatter/social metadata (tags, derives_from, hook/description, OG/Twitter blurbs) plus a new “Where to Go Next” link to the survey.

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Canon Quality — oddkit_audit ✅

No dead klappy:// references or legacy link patterns found in writings/. 41 files scanned.

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