The book will move through the history in order, using shorter oral-history chapters. This gives the voices and images more room, and lets each chapter find the length it needs.
Work in shorter reading units while preserving the underlying historical movement.
The chapter names, the three-part grouping and the final part's internal order remain provisional.
The Mohan Rao, Charlie Simon and Mike Watson material may warrant a distinct three-voice treatment.
Commissioned essays may retell history already carried by the narrators. Edit repetition, and split or reposition longer essays only when that improves the oral-history rhythm.
We still need a clean transition from the city and company culture into the technical work. The placement of the commissioned pieces may help.
Use the strongest material on women's experiences across the chapters on the city, culture, travel and the workplace. A separate chapter does not have enough material yet.
The team judged the corpus close to saturation for another general women's session. Any new interview must now answer a named gap.
The team considered interviewing a current senior TI employee and decided to wait. Approaching TI now could bring permissions and corporate review into the final edit.
Finish the edit, complete narrator review and prepare a dummy or pre-release copy. The team can then approach TI with a clear version of the book to review.
People who understand the engineering need to check the technical passages. The interviews tell us what people remember; documents and specialist review must settle terminology and disputed details.
Review technical language, factual claims and quote treatment—not only whether the story feels right.
Use low-resolution scans immediately as references. Rescan selected reproduction objects properly later and track permissions separately.
Keep draft prose below tapes and verified registers in the evidence hierarchy. A draft can frame a search; it cannot corroborate itself.
About these notes. They cover the editorial decisions and open questions from the call. Commercial and personal discussion has been left out.