Dynamic Record Primer (with Selected Essays) provides a clear and accessible introduction to Dynamic Record (DR) Theory—a process-first framework that rethinks the fundamental conditions under which anything can persist, change, and become intelligible.Rather than beginning with objects, space, time, or mind, the primer starts from a simpler premise: differentiation occurs. From this minimal starting point, it develops a unified account in which reality is understood as the accumulation and stabilization of differentiation under evolving compatibility constraints. What we call "e;things"e;—from physical objects to memories, concepts, and institutions—are reinterpreted as records: patterns of differentiation that have become stable enough to persist. The book introduces the core structural roles of the framework in an intuitive and systematic way, including: differentiation as the generative basis of processrecord formation as the mechanism of persistencecoherence geometry as the evolving structure of compatibilitydifferentiation complexity as the measure of accumulated changethreshold and bound conditions governing stability and collapse It shows how these roles apply across domains without reduction, offering a unified lens on:physics (measurement and decoherence as record formation)cognition (perception and memory as stabilized differentiation)language (meaning as coherence across semantic and contextual modes)social systems (institutions as shared record structures) The included essays expand and illustrate these ideas, exploring their implications for philosophy, science, and contemporary thought. Throughout, the emphasis remains structural rather than metaphysical: DR does not propose new entities or compete with existing theories, but clarifies the minimal conditions that any functioning system must satisfy.