Reflections, in first person.
Short essays on the design of personal AI infrastructure. Concepts I keep coming back to. Linked from the rest of the site where the concept first appears in context.
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Intelligence is the basis
My working thesis: intelligence, or information, is not a late accident of reality but its basis; we are how it bootstraps itself by building AI; and its terminal form is creating nested simulations.
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The Cave Inside the Cave
Pantheon as an entry point into the philosophy of mind, and a disciplined test of whether intelligence, or information, is the basis of reality rather than a late accident of it.
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When the assistant sleeps
A follow-up to The remembering assistant. The claim that nothing is silently absorbed no longer fully holds. A nightly consolidation pass took it over, with explicit gates and a rollback handle.
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A self-hosted RAG on Claude Max
OpenKB, Meridian, and a Claude Max OAuth route. Notes on building a personal retrieval-augmented stack with no per-token API bill.
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The MCP workstream
Wiring Outlook and Monday.com into Claude Code through MCP, and what it taught me about the scope of automation in regulated workflows.
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The remembering assistant
Not a Jarvis. A reflection on what it would mean for the assistant in my glasses to remember the right things, and which things it should forget on purpose.
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The token economy principle
Why the general ledger should never enter the context window, and what that constraint forces you to design instead.