Notes · 2026

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.

3 Jun 2026 · memory

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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16 May 2026 · mcp

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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16 May 2026 · rag

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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16 May 2026 · memory

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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16 May 2026 · principles

The token economy principle

Why the general ledger should never enter the context window, and what that constraint forces you to design instead.

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