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Latest 2026.06.01 · 7 min w/ AI

What Changes When AI Remembers

A transcript records what happened. Memory decides what should change next time. Most AI memory features are still the first thing pretending to be the second. read →

A Zettelkasten Is Not a Database

The value of a personal knowledge system isn't retrieval, it's recombination. A Zettelkasten works when it creates the conditions for ideas to collide, not when it stores everything you've ever thought.
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2026.05.24 · 8 min

Don't Pick a Model. Route the Prompt.

Local LLMs aren't ready to replace frontier models for everything. They are ready to replace them for some things. A small router on your own machine captures that gap today, and a bigger one as local models improve.
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2026.05.15 · 11 min

Understand It Deeply Enough to Direct It

The tools changed from Excel macros to AI agents, but the work stayed the same: find the real problem, understand the system, and direct the right solution.
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2026.05.04 · 5 min