THE PUBLISHER
Awesome Patel
Independent publisher in Chicago · Steady Ideas
Steady Ideas keeps the reasons for a choice beside the numbers used to compare it. Published in Chicago by Awesome Patel, it combines an Idea Comparison Board with guides and reproducible studies on mandatory requirements, criterion definitions, aggregation methods, and the influence of weights. The aim is a decision a reader can explain and revisit.
Readers enter their own options, scores and priorities, inspect the resulting totals and export the inputs with their assumptions. Published evidence packages include declared conditions, deterministic calculations, raw data, charts, limitations, version history, and correction notes. Fictional examples make the arithmetic visible while keeping the judgment with the reader and its basis available for review.
Selected work from Steady Ideas
Arithmetic or geometric? 1,771 weighting runs
A reproducible comparison runs two aggregation methods across every five-point weight combination, publishing all 1,771 JSON and CSV records, the formulas, a chart, limitations, and a versioned correction record.
Idea Comparison Board
Define criteria, enter option scores and weights, then inspect the totals. Markdown and JSON exports preserve the inputs, calculations and assumptions so the reasoning behind a comparison stays visible.
Screen the options before you score them
Separate mandatory requirements from preferences, retain unknowns and check whether one feasible option is worse across the included measures. A worksheet and fictional activity-station example preserve the reasons for keeping or excluding an option.
Would one weight change your choice?
Repeat a calculated example showing why a weight of 10 can mean 11.76 percent of a comparison. Compare raw weights, normalized shares and saved totals before deciding whether a priority change alters the choice.
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Publication and editorial standards
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