Don't judge me by my episodes; judge me by my published works™

The fair measure, named. The episodes just visit; they are the weather, not the man, and weather is the wrong thing to grade. Grade the published works; the dated, cited, deployed record that stays after the storm passes (the idealist with receipts; the record is the arbiter). A bad day is not a body of work; a hard week is not a life's output. Judge the thing that's still there in the morning; the pages, the arguments, the receipts anyone can check. That's the only honest scoreboard, and it's the one this whole house runs on: score the record, not the weather. Everyone has episodes; not everyone leaves published works to be judged by instead. He did; judge those. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)