https://tomscholtes.com/notes/ Short reflections on MCP, token economy, retrieval, and memory in personal AI. en-GB Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tomscholtes.com/notes/intelligence-is-the-basis/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/intelligence-is-the-basis/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. intelligence philosophy-of-mind simulation https://tomscholtes.com/notes/the-cave-inside-the-cave/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/the-cave-inside-the-cave/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. philosophy-of-mind consciousness research https://tomscholtes.com/notes/when-the-assistant-sleeps/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/when-the-assistant-sleeps/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. memory automation ai-tooling https://tomscholtes.com/notes/mcp-workstream/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/mcp-workstream/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wiring Outlook and Monday.com into Claude Code through MCP, and what it taught me about the scope of automation in regulated workflows. mcp automation tools https://tomscholtes.com/notes/self-hosted-rag-claude-max/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/self-hosted-rag-claude-max/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenKB, Meridian, and a Claude Max OAuth route. Notes on building a personal retrieval-augmented stack with no per-token API bill. rag self-hosted knowledge https://tomscholtes.com/notes/token-economy-principle/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/token-economy-principle/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the general ledger should never enter the context window, and what that constraint forces you to design instead. principles design llms https://tomscholtes.com/notes/the-remembering-assistant/ https://tomscholtes.com/notes/the-remembering-assistant/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. memory wearables design