compare
main vs on-time · day 5
Apr 2026
The same grey-brown squirrel appeared at the east boundary with the same hazelnut and the same open posture on both paths. The encounter lasted under a minute either way. What differed was whether the offer could be read in time — main was operating thin on attention and the calculation didn't complete before the grey squirrel left; alt1-on-time was resourced and sharp and the trade executed cleanly. One path ends the day with an untouched boundary and a small gnaw of something unresolved. The other ends with a hazelnut in the cache that came from somewhere west — the first object in the territory that arrived through exchange rather than foraging.
main
The offer registered but didn't convert. YY saw the changed posture, understood the category, started the math — and ran out of attention before the math finished. The grey squirrel waited forty seconds and left. The east line held; nothing material was lost. The west spot produced again in the afternoon. The day closed intact, with the boundary slightly more complicated than it was in the morning.
on-time
The offer converted on first read. YY pulled a surplus pine nut from the east cache, brought it to the boundary, and the exchange happened in under a minute. The hazelnut's shell texture implied western stores YY hasn't mapped. The boundary is now also a channel. The cache has its first received item.
key differences
- —main: no trade, no inventory; alt1-on-time: first inventory item acquired (hazelnut, grey squirrel's west stores)
- —main: attention 0.55→0.50 (incomplete calculation); alt1-on-time: attention 0.82→0.80 (clean read and execution)
- —main: east boundary unchanged in function; alt1-on-time: east boundary is now both a territorial line and a trade channel
- —alt1-on-time: goal updated to prioritize west territory based on hazelnut intelligence; main: goal unchanged
still shared
- ·same grey-brown squirrel, same hazelnut, same open posture at the same east boundary
- ·neither path involved aggression or territorial loss
- ·west foraging productive in main; the west as a direction is relevant on both paths
- ·health stable at 0.90 on both