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Oct 5, 2025
After months of building infrastructure and hitting walls, after documenting why Personal AI is harder than it looks, after questioning what it even means for an AI to “know” someone, I feel I am stuck. I feel like I am at a crossroads with multiple paths forward, none clearly superior, each with its own trade-offs that will only become apparent after you have traveled far into it.
This paper is an inflection point in my series. My previous paper have been written after the fact, they documented what I discovered. Now we have caught up - this paper documents the decision point itself - the messy middle where theoretical understanding meets practical choices, where vision meets implementation constraints, where perfect becomes the enemy of good enough.
Sep 21, 2025
Every employment contract contains a comfortable fiction: when an employee leaves, they take their “experience” but leave the “work product”. The employee’s brain somehow perfectly segregates patterns learned from documents produced, insights gained from data analyzed, capabilities developed from problems solved. Companies have always accepted this fiction because human memory is imperfect, degrades over time, and can’t be audited.
We pay senior employees more precisely because they carry this accumulated experience. We value “10 years of experience” on resumes. We conduct exit interviews trying desperately to capture some fraction of what is walking out the door. We even created an entire knowledge management industry that largely fails at preventing expertise from leaving with people. The professional economy is built on individuals owning their cognitive development while companies own their work output.
Sep 7, 2025
During the months of building infrastructure for personal AI - the memory systems, the conversation persistence, the architectural insights documented in my previous posts - one aspect seemed like a straightforward task: feed my daemon my context so it could understand me.
I had backups for blog posts, I scraped decades of forum discussions to extract my posts, I had (some) work documents, presentations, emails, I had a good chunk of my library as ebooks on my hard drive, etc. The equation felt simple: process this content through an AI, and it would understand who I am.