THE PUBLISHER
Awesome Patel
Independent publisher in Chicago · Upward Journal
Upward Journal begins before a project has a result to celebrate. Published by Awesome Patel in Chicago, it helps readers choose one uncertainty, plan a small experiment and decide what an observation would justify doing next. The emphasis is on a bounded next step that leaves a usable record.
The Small Steps Planner turns that sequence into a downloadable plan. Companion guides cover review rules, decision notes and fair measurement, including how to preserve missing evidence and reasons to stop. Their book-swap and craft-drawer scenarios are fictional teaching examples. They show how to structure a decision without claiming that a plan has already produced an improvement.
Selected work from Upward Journal
Check the whole review rule, not just the winning number
A reproducible 16-scenario decision matrix compares a target-only decision with a rule that also checks record completeness, stop conditions and the agreed budget. The page includes raw JSON and CSV, a generated chart, method, limitations and version history.
Small Steps Planner
Bring a question, proposed test, observation and next step into one editable plan. Export Markdown or JSON to carry the plan into the experiment and keep the eventual result beside the original question.
Write the review rule before the result
Write continue, change, stop and insufficient-evidence rules before a small experiment. A worked planner exercise shows how to preserve those conditions and the commitment limit in both downloaded formats.
Write a decision note you can use a month later
Preserve the context, alternatives, tradeoffs and review trigger behind one choice. The guide adapts decision-record practices through a fictional book-swap example, with assumptions that can be revisited later.
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Publication and editorial standards
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