Writing
The Last Project You Build Alone
Why a second brain should be custom to its owner, independent of any one AI harness, and able to give every future agent durable context.
Why a Knowledge Management Layer Still Matters
May 2026A practical look at where no KM fails, where connectors and search help, and where a structured KM layer materially improves consistency, reasoning quality, traceability, and permissioning.
Structure references
Personal Brain Structure
What my personal second brain looks like on disk: one numbered PARA-style vault of 954 pages, enumerated page by page and redacted, with the conventions that keep it filed.
Company Brain Structure
The shared company half at the level already made public: three governed sources, a subject-folder taxonomy, server-enforced write fences, and git-backed Markdown as authority.
Draft series · In review
From memory to an operational brain
Seven draft parts continue The Last Project You Build Alone. They are live to read, still marked Draft, and excluded from search indexing until reviewed.
- Part 2
Documents Are Evidence, Not the World — what retrieval can prove, and what it cannot know about current state.
- Part 3
Give the Brain Nouns — objects, relationships, state, and authority.
- Part 4
Give the Brain Verbs — reusable functions and governed actions.
- Part 5
When the Work Should Continue Without You — bounded automation and escalation.
- Part 6
Three Ways to Ask — document, ontology, and function search.
- Part 7
How AIP Puts the Pieces Together — the coordination layer around the model.
- Part 8
From Second Brain to Working System — the architecture and next research journey.
Published research
Two Brains, One Operator
September 2026Why personal and corporate agent memory must split, how each half is governed - server-enforced write fences for the company brain, a permissive universal adapter for the personal one - and how Qwen planned the architecture and audited 1,837 pages of company knowledge on local hardware.
Knowledge graph research in progress
Self-contained papers, published as single pages and listed here and in the essays archive.
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In progress
What a knowledge graph adds over plain retrieval - ontology design, entity and relationship extraction, and head-to-head comparisons against vector-only search.
Related talk: Human in the Loop Related reading: book reviews