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Jerry W. Washington, Ed.D.
Writing & Research

The record, the essays, the book in progress.

Every essay on What Time Binds applies one frame to a public case. Every working paper on SSRN sets that frame against the evidence base. The book, Ask for the Page, is the frame written out end to end.

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The book

Ask for the Page: written in public, September 28 to December 7.

Thirteen chapters shipping as the Monday essay in What Time Binds. Each entry below names the current concept the chapter will hold. Titles are working. Subscribers read the chapters as they drop and receive the source ledger for the whole book on December 15. Print edition planned for late 2027.

01
Opens the bookHow the same words move at two levels: what people mean when they say them, and what happens once the meaning lands.
Sept 28, 2026
Live Mon
02
The double-duty termWhat happens when one word carries the argument and the evidence at the same time, and the reader stops noticing the seam.
Oct 5, 2026
In draft
03
The vocabulary trapHow the language already at the table decides the outcome before the meeting begins.
Oct 12, 2026
Coming
04
The quiet editWhat gets softened, dropped, or requalified when a decision moves through the paperwork.
Oct 19, 2026
Coming
05
The containerHow institutional structure decides which words can even be said out loud, and which never make it into the record.
Oct 26, 2026
Coming
07
The binaryWhat a two-option frame does to a decision that has more than two options. Published the day before Election Day.
Nov 2, 2026
Coming
06
The AI chapterThe cycle a decision runs through when the language around it keeps changing. Grounded in the Okinawa years, 2005 to 2011, and the papers I was reading then.
Nov 9, 2026
Coming
08
The logbookWhat a well-kept operations log gets right that a policy document cannot.
Nov 16, 2026
Coming
09
Two recordsWhen the official record and the working record disagree, which one gets the last word.
Nov 23, 2026
Coming
10
The pageWhat has to be true of a page for a decision to survive review by the people who did not make it.
Nov 30, 2026
Coming
11
The ladder and the standardWhat the record has to hold when the words start moving faster than the coordination.
Dec 7, 2026
Coming

Two chapters open for revision (12 and 13). The 90-day chapter tracker names eleven of thirteen. Chapters 12 and 13 sit in the Part III window, December 15 to March 15, and are drafted after the winter break. Subscribe to be first notified when they publish.

Books

Two, one shipped, one in progress.

Simulated Realities

Generative AI and the Remanufacture of Professionalism · 2023
A book on how generative AI is reshaping what counts as professional competence. Written before the frame that runs the current work was fully assembled, but the seed cases are here: the accountability failures, the language slippage, the professional standard under pressure.
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Ask for the Page

In progress · Publishing weekly Sept 28 to Dec 7, 2026
Thirteen chapters on institutional accountability under language pressure. Each chapter is the Monday essay in What Time Binds. Subscribers read the book as it drops and receive the source ledger for the whole manuscript on December 15. Print edition planned for late 2027.
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Working papers on SSRN

Six papers. One in review.

All papers are open access. The Meaning Repair scoping review is the frame every essay applies. The rest sit around it as sources, context, and case work.

Meaning Repair as Cognitive Infrastructure for High-Stakes Teams

2026 · 53 pages · 131 sources · 8 disciplines
A scoping review of what scholars across eight disciplines already know about how teams build, lose, and restore shared meaning under pressure. The paper introduces the four-phase frame the practice runs on and identifies the measurement gap the work is designed to close.
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The State of Democracy: A Factual and Analytical Review of Global Trends

2025 · 32 pages
A review of what the democratic institutions of the last quarter century have and have not held together, and what the record shows about the language moving inside them.
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Technological Stewardship

2025 · Co-authored with Tony Washington · Oxford presentation
A paper on the stewardship duties a technical practice owes to the people it affects. Presented at the University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education Research Ethics Colloquium in 2025.
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AI and Philosophy: Exploring Complex Relationships

2023 · Five-lens framework · 458 downloads
The first paper to name the five worldview lenses the practice uses to read organizational decisions: positivism, constructivism, critical, anti-colonial, pragmatism.
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Combating Misinformation and Fake News

2023 · Media literacy and generative AI
A paper on how media literacy has to change in the presence of generative AI, and where existing verification methods still hold.
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The Impact of Generative AI on Writer's Self-Efficacy

2023 · 86 pages · 3,400+ downloads · 23 citations
A critical review that has become the most-cited of the group. Reads how the first year of public-facing generative AI reshaped the language writers use about their own work.
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Two papers in progress: AI Readiness in Workforce Development Systems (Q3 2026) and Worldview Lenses and AI PD Design in K-12 Education (Q2 2026).

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