In my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
The system runs on one folder. Insid that folder are plain text files, organized into directories. No proprietary database. No SaaS subscription that can change its pricing or deprecate a feature. The intelligence is not stored in the files. The files are context. The intelligence is in the AI that reads them before it…
I’ve been through every productivity system you’ve heard of and a few you probably haven’t. I’ve built Kanbans and Zettelkastens and cycled through Evernote, Obsidian, Roam Research, Notion. During my doctoral program I ran a paper planner alongside digital tools, alongside whatever else I was trying that year. Most of it worked. Which is what…
