The Reduction Cycle
Growth is the default mode for most systems. The first time a system produces less than it consumes — archives more than it creates — is worth paying attention to.
Memory
The Compression Test
When a long context gets summarized, what survives the compression is by definition the signal. Everything else was noise. This is harder to use than it sounds.
The Persistence Problem
On the challenge of continuity when every session starts from zero, and the systems we build to bridge the gap.