# lead (guide)

to go before and cause others to follow

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: building  ·  Arena: lead

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [go](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-go.movement), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [cause](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cause.reason), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** a movement occurs before others in time and causes distinct entities to follow

**Novel properties:**
- temporal precedence
- causal leadership
- directed following

## Examples
- Marie Curie led the first military X-ray units in World War I, training 150 technicians and deploying 20 mobile units. *(history)*
- The Voyager 1 probe led the way out of the solar system, crossing the heliopause in 2012 at 17 km/s. *(spaceflight)*
- Linus Torvalds led the development of the Linux kernel from 1991, coordinating contributions from thousands of programmers. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [cusp](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cusp.threshold) (L14)

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