You can change your own standards
A preference you stated with confidence can change. What makes a record useful is that it keeps the reason you held it then, alongside the change.
Essays
Some thoughts need more room.
Building these tools raises questions worth spending time on: how our standards change, who should hold our records, and how an ordinary day becomes part of history. This is where we work through them.
Essays
Each article keeps its own date and context. Some reflect our current thinking; others record an earlier exploration. Start with the question that interests you.
Current thinking
Earlier explorations
Why AI needs user-owned boundaries
When AI starts keeping long-term memory, reading files, and taking the next step for you, who defines the boundary becomes a core product issue.
The real problem is not only model quality. It is broken continuity.
Models keep improving, but chats, files, contacts, and follow-ups still live in separate places. AI sees fragments while users experience repeated restarts.
Why we do not start the story with Solid, even though open standards matter
We start with broken continuity and user-shaped boundaries, then explain why open standards make those promises credible.
Why we are doing this.
For the story behind this work, begin with Our Vision. For practical steps to use or build with the products, open the documentation.
After the essays, go back to the products themselves.