Pre-Work
Pre-work is foundational content a participant encounters before a live session — typically a short video, reading, or framing exercise — designed to build the knowledge and understanding required to participate meaningfully. It is the structural mechanism that converts cold information into warm information and frees the live session for higher-order application work. Pre-work has to be required — the session can't succeed without it — to actually get done.
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