tegwick
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Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat
canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file;
duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped
(first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion
to reference shared entity files.
Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM
knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones.
Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their
own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dexterity of the Workman
Definition
The skill and speed a worker acquires through repeated performance of a single specialised operation. Smith identifies the increase in dexterity as the first of three causes by which the division of labour improves productive power. Specialisation reduces each worker's task to one simple operation, making it the sole employment of their life, and thereby dramatically increasing their proficiency.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"
Context
Presented as the first of three mechanisms explaining why the division of labour increases output. Smith illustrates it with the example of nail-making: an unskilled smith makes 200-300 nails per day, while a specialised nailer can produce over 2,300.
Economic Domain
Production
Smith's Original Wording
"First, the improvement of the dexterity of the workmen, necessarily increases the quantity of the work he can perform; and the division of labour, by reducing every man's business to some one simple operation, and by making this operation the sole employment of his life, necessarily increases very much the dexterity of the workman."