Lore helps enable communication about the meaning making that provides the basis for judgment. Lore establishes patterns that aid people in ascribing significance to data and articulating that significance to others, often in contexts where memory and experience are key.

Working semi-autonomously, holding a shared set of patterns enabled the builders to "run" the project in their head, acting in conjunction with the others involved in the project and approach the problem space with the same intention. When this happens the shared goals are emergent within the patterns of activity themselves.

Narrative structure provide a method to establish agreement about what patterns are being observed. It enables people to chart connective lines between observations. It facilitates a process of establishing next steps, and finally articulates the manner in which those next steps will be undertaken.

This corresponds closely to Christopher Alexander's idea of pattern languages. 5 When building a cathedral, Alexander says that the structure is first built in language. The conversations of the masons and carpenters, speaking in common patterns, approach key judgments and apply these insights to the specific contexts on the challenges they face.... See more

This provides two more clues about the nature of lore. Lore enables communication about meaning making, providing basis for judgment, while also supplying structures and strategies to determine how and in what manner to put these judgments to work. Lore also give people insight into how their work connects to the work of others and situates this... See more

Narrative enables the interpreter to explain the misfit between facts and models. It clarifies discrepancies and fills in absent complexities. Most importantly, it specifies ‘tempo, duration, and pace’ of narrative elements

the more remote the connection, and the more abstract the image, the better the meme becomes. And yet the meme remains entirely legible to people who can read the pattern. This is because meaning is derived from all previous encounters with examples of this pattern, drawing distinctions in the context of memory and experiences in communities of... See more

This points to the next feature of lore. It enables communication about meaning making, providing basis for judgment, while also supplying structures and strategies to determine how and in what manner to put these judgments to work. Lore helps order insights and transform them into operationalizable pathways. Lore enables the application of... See more

Access to information does not necessarily make it meaningful. Shared context, histories, patterns, and systems of symbols are required to provide a meaningful context that enables information to be transformed into knowledge.