# Follow the rabbit holes

> Provenance, explainability and asking for the evidence; and being the best-prepared person in the room. 10 panels.

Status: draft · By: gen-z.journalist, 18 October 2026, from Dinis's memo on questioning and evidence · 10 panels

*Drawn at <https://storyboards.sgit.ai/gen-z-developers/follow-the-rabbit-holes/>; the data is [storyboard.json](storyboard.json), the cast [cast.json](../cast.json).*

*Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is from the article 'Follow the rabbit holes', word for word; the build checks it.*

## 1. Follow the rabbit holes

*cover*

Never take it at face value.

- **Zara** (point, determined)
- **The Agent** (think, thinking)
- **The Guide** (stand, happy)

Questioning and evidence.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes*

## 2. People underestimate them

*scene*

- **Zara** (point, happy) says: “Found the original photo. It's from 2019, not today.”
- **The Guide** (stand, happy) says: “They are very good detectives.”

Props: phone

Connecting the dots, finding things.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it*

## 3. And they care about privacy

*scene, setting: night*

- **Zara** (think, happy) thinks: “Best feature? The picture disappears.”

Props: phone

Snapchat's design, as Dinis saw it with his daughters.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it*

## 4. A prompt away

*scene*

- **The Guide** (point, happy) says: “Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away.”

Props: board (a claim /   -\> its source /     -\> the source's source /       -\> the evidence)

Provenance and explainability; build your own agents and tools to follow it.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes*

## 5. The newsroom's rule

*evidence*

- **The Agent** (point, happy)

> “Not found is not false.”
>
> Source: My memory, checked (newsroom)

Every claim checked: confirmed, corrected, or not found, and the article says which.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally*

## 6. How you can disagree rationally

*scene, setting: office*

- **Sam** (shrug, thinking) says: “Are you sure?”
- **Priya** (point, determined) says: “Here's the evidence. And here's what we don't know yet.”
- **The Guide** (stand, happy) says: “Sometimes not knowing is a fact.”

What is evidence and what is not; what we know and what we do not.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally*

## 7. This article's own rabbit hole

*spectrum*

- **The Agent** (point, happy)
- **The Guide** (stand, happy)

A link (shared by Dinis) → The video (its real title) → Summit 2011 (a session on presenting it) → Blog, 2016 (the full talk, its name)

Finding David Rice's keynote while the article was written: the agent followed the link to the video and the 2011 Summit session; Dinis's 2016 post, The Pollution Analogy, confirmed it is Upon the Threshold of Opportunity.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes*

## 8. Be the best-prepared person in the room

*scene*

- **Tomás** (point, determined)
- **The Guide** (stand, happy) says: “These days there is no excuse not to be.”

Props: board (my brief: /   who they are, what they want /   what I want, what I know /   what I don't know /   the follow-ups)

Briefings, pre-briefings, briefings on who you meet, follow-ups: overhead once, now scalable.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, Be the best-prepared person in the room*

## 9. And answer every finding

*evidence*

- **Tomás** (stand, determined)

> “A finding with no answer is just a complaint.”
>
> Source: Reviews on the record (newsroom)

The other half of following the evidence: answering it.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally*

## 10. A hands-on part, for 2026

*spectrum*

- **Zara** (wave, happy)
- **Priya** (point, happy)

Workflow (an agentic workflow from zero) → Images (and infographics) → Storyboards (drawn by code) → Meetings (briefs and follow-ups) → Publishing (your own newsroom)

Proposed here as practical workflows, dated 2026, renewed each year; Dinis put the hands-on part in the release candidate (decision 013). rc2's map has eleven hands-on chapters; five of them are here.

*Source: Follow the rabbit holes, A hands-on part, for 2026*