Hello,
On our homepage, we talk about keeping the big decisions yours and getting help with the smaller tasks. This letter is about where that idea began.
The starting point for this project was *Coco*.
The film got us thinking about the details that bring a person to mind: a phrase they often used, the way they made a dish, a habit that nobody else quite understood. The mark a person leaves on the world often lives in these small things.
And new details take shape every day. You learn to cook something new, argue about a book with a friend, or finally finish something you have put off for months. A day can feel ordinary as you live it. Only later do you realize that something in you changed.
We wanted to make it easier for these things to endure.
At first, that was simply a wish. Then we encountered AI.
As AI began to take part in everyday work, we saw a way forward. You ask it to help write a letter, revise a proposal, or think through something you cannot quite resolve. In that back-and-forth, you share experiences, explain what matters, and make choices. Those records can be useful right away: they can help the work turn out closer to what you had in mind and save you from explaining the same requirements again.
So we began building LinX and Xpod. LinX is a tool to work alongside you. Xpod is a place for the things you choose to keep. We hope these everyday records can gradually help AI understand you and may eventually contribute to a model of your own.
But an experience is worth much more than helping AI get one more task right.
Why you moved to this city. Why you turned down an opportunity that looked good on paper. Why you suddenly changed your mind that afternoon. The people you care about, the foolish things you have done, the new life you are trying to make. These are worth keeping even if they are never used to train a model.
We call the experiences, conversations, and thoughts you choose to leave behind a personal journal. It might be a carefully written diary entry, a discussion at work, or a few words beside a photograph. Its shape should follow life itself. You should not have to record every minute to make it complete, or reach a conclusion about everything.
Your biases will be part of it.
You see the world from where you stand. You have your own likes, dislikes, and things you will not compromise on. A new experience may change a judgment you once held with certainty. Years later, you may disagree with what you thought then. It is still a place you once stood. We want records to have room for that change: to preserve the circumstances and reasons of the time, while leaving room for what you think today.
Following this thought has led us to a distant vision:
Taken together, our personal journals form the history of civilization.
People experience the same change in different places: at work, at home, out on the street. One person remembers a decision; another remembers what the neighborhood looked like that day. Brought together, their records can fill gaps and contradict one another. Each carries a person’s perspective and something of what life was actually like.
We hope that people looking back on our time will be able to understand how someone spent a day, why they made a particular choice, and how they kept going through uncertainty. People whose names never appear in a timeline of major events have histories of their own.
For this to happen, each person must be able to decide what happens to their journal. What to keep, what to delete, and who may see it are choices for the person whose life it records. The parts they choose to share can meet other people’s records; the private parts deserve a dependable home too. Bringing journals together depends on the wishes of their authors. We hope these records can outlast changes in applications and the rise and fall of companies, remaining in the hands of the people who made them.
We know this vision is far away. Every step toward it has to be useful today. LinX needs to do the work at hand well. Xpod needs to look after what people entrust to it. People can carry on working and living, leaving their own page when they want to.
If reading this has brought someone to mind, or an experience, or a small thing that happened today that you still want to say more about, you probably understand why we want to build this.
Thank you for reading.
Weiming Intelligence AI is still undefined. Shape it with us.