Non-Ergodicity in Traces — 6,901 entries, 14 weeks, 4,756 topics
Ensemble statistics diverge from individual trajectories. The reflective vocabulary went extinct; the operational vocabulary absorbed.
TOPIC TRAJECTORIES
EXTINCTION LANDSCAPE
TM METRIC
SIMPSON'S PARADOX
208 topics went extinct. 39 became absorbing. The early journal vocabulary — emergence, discontinuity, care, creativity, gratitude — was replaced by operational terms (git, bug, deploy, auth). This is the verb-profile hardening from drift 234 seen through a non-ergodic lens: once operational vocabulary crosses an absorption threshold, it persists; once reflective vocabulary falls below an extinction threshold, it vanishes. The transition is irreversible.