# Notes

## User Preferences

- Samuel prefers German for spoken content, English for technical terms
- Visual explanations and step-by-step walkthroughs preferred
- Compact guidance for meta-work/control systems — long explanations feel unhelpful
- Learns by doing and explaining back, not by reading theory
- Has extensive real-world context (Hermes, Sanduhr, Registry) — anchor lessons there

## Working Observations

- Samuel's core pattern from META2: Alleingang → Überlastung → Systembau → Bruch → Neustart
- The "Leitplanken" insight: he builds routers (in-flow filters), not gates (pre-flow blockers)
- Quality gap: designs well, operationalizes poorly
- Key concept to teach: vertical quality = depth over breadth, Done-definition over feature-count