Same Model, Different Minds11 August 2026·6 minsA falsifiable hypothesis: two identical checkpoints, given a year and different persistence policies, become measurably different minds.
Persistence Is Not Presence11 August 2026·6 minsWriting knowledge down does not make retrieval disappear; a useful hit in a persistent store is a conjunction of four fragile successes.
Micro Researchers: Research as a Standing Process29 June 2026·10 minsMost research questions are answered by waiting well, not reading harder — a case for persistent, budgeted micro-researchers.
A Topic Is a Process, Not a File11 June 2026·7 minsGive a note a refresh interval and a watch list and it stops being a document — the systems ancestry of living topics, and the one thing about them that is actually new.
Evals Are the New Engineering Artifacts31 May 2026·4 minsHow AI systems change the role of specifications and tests.
Remembering What You Care About29 May 2026·7 minsProactive AI memory keeps dying in the market, and the idea survives only if the decision to interrupt is treated as the product.