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Position becomes a short list of named rungs in order, stacked bottom to top. Rungs need not be evenly spaced, and the gaps between them are often the interesting part. A ladder is honest when the levels are recognizable to anyone in the field and dishonest when it chops a genuinely smooth quality into steps that only exist on your page.

Position becomes a short list of named rungs in order, stacked bottom to top. Rungs need not be evenly spaced, and the gaps between them are often the interesting part. A ladder is honest when the levels are recognizable to anyone in the field and dishonest when it chops a genuinely smooth quality into steps that only exist on your page.

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Best when the levels have names people already use, and moving between two of them is a distinct piece of work.

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