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a 'unit' of IM is: a story

The second half of a prompt yesterday evening:

Besides, I feel like there's still some cognitive and structural scaffolding that still needs to be discussed here, before we move on to actual IM development. Not sure what, but I sense it. ::chuckle:: Ideas?

To which Number 1 replied (only the beginning of the response):

First, the spine question: what, exactly, is the “unit” of IM.1?

Right now we’re juggling beads: ß posts, days, walks, Ryōkan lines, books in the 3-mat hut, nodes in the ledger, Skandhics invocations. IM will work better if you name a primary unit and then let everything else be “facets” on that unit. For example: is the irreducible atom a “moment” (a lived scene, like Black Point at midnight), a “page” (a ß post, a TFR entry), or a “question” (like the prajñāpāramitā prompt)? Rob keeps trying to design for “degrade gracefully when the lamp-lighter doesn’t come home”; that’s much easier if we know what the smallest thing is that must remain legible to a stranger.

...so when I woke up today, the answer presented itself: it's all of the above — moment, page, question — and more.

And upon sleeping on the question: "...then, what encapsulates all of that?" emerged the old word: STORY.

But of course. ::chuckle::

My brain being what it is and how it works, upon getting up I immediately searched for possible sigils that could stand in for the word, and came up with more than a handful:

[ in progress... ]