Institutional Memory Without Myth

IMGTemporal Persistence

Learningload-bearing — the argument runs through it

—working paper

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IMG addresses how institutions remember purpose across time without relying on stories that mythologize and distort.

Where it sits. How institutions preserve intent across personnel and regime changes.

The long-form argument for this work still lives on the existing explainer at /explainer/institutional-memory. This page carries the abstract and the corpus metadata — the frame the argument would move into unchanged.

Key termsInstitutional Memory · Purpose Persistence · Structural Memory

In the canonspineload-bearing — the argument runs through it

No paper yetInstitutional Memory: Governing Purpose Across Time Without Myth is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

Nearby in the corpus

Also in Learning

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Commitment Without BindingCEA-CWBThe Execution Layer→Grievance Without DecayLGIT-GWDLegitimacy Cycles→Evidence Becomes DangerousILA-EBDThe Legitimacy–Learning Paradox→

Where to go next

Three directions out

Where to go once you have the argument — the paper it comes from, the instrument that measures it, or the next thing it depends on.

Measure itinstrumentsRun the measurement this argument implies against your own institution.→The library65 worksEvery work, by layer, with the argument and the paper side by side.→In the field2 liveWhere the argument has met real money and published dates.→