The Whole Picture
Race morningA half-second at mile 18, then eighteen weeks back.6 scenes · ~15 min
Open at the mat, mid-race, then rewind eighteen weeks. The whole system at low resolution, so the shape is familiar before any part is explained.
The scenes
- Four grams, no batteryMile 18 of the Harborview Marathon, mid-stride.3 min
- The form on the kitchen tableEighteen weeks earlier. A phone, a laptop, and a form filled in before the window opens.3 min
- What the tap actually madeTen o'clock on registration morning, and eighty thousand people have the same idea.3 min
- Case watches a spinnerThe only part of the machine Case will ever see.2 min
- The app said pending, the email said yesTwo minutes in which Traversal disagreed with itself.2 min
- One entry per personA rule nobody can see, doing most of the work.2 min
What lights on your story map here
0/19concepts lit
one cell per scene · width is its conceptsreading a scene lights its cell
19 fluency — say them in a meeting
Show all 19, scene by scene
hardwaresoftwareinput → processing → outputapplicationwebsiteweb appmobile appdesktop appcodedatainfrastructureabstractionsystemcomponentstatesource of truthuser interfaceuser experiencebusiness logic
Act 0 — the boundary
480 msMolly's phone shows the split.
- 0 msThe chip wakes inside the mat's field.
- 2 msIt sends one number: 11208.
- 480 msMolly's phone shows the split.
3 steps so far. The rest of the half-second arrives in later acts.
At the mat, which part of that half-second is the chip responsible for?