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2 posts tagged “memory”.

21 July 2026 · 11 min read

My Second Brain Learned What It's For

My agent's memory got very good at knowing what was true and had no idea what any of it was in aid of. So I gave it a statement of ends, a telos, and a sweep that asks which of my goals currently have nothing moving. The interesting part wasn't the machinery. It was having to write the goals down.

#ai #agents #obsidian #memory #telos

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1 July 2026 · 7 min read

My Second Brain Grew Up

A while ago I explained that my AI agent's memory is just a folder of Markdown notes, the same note-taking stack I use for myself. Then the folder got big. This is about the three things a notebook needs once it stops being small, and how each one turned out to be something a human brain already does.

#ai #agents #obsidian #rag #memory

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