The Library
55 essays spanning 2022 to 2025
2025
19Self-Determination
2025
AI Memory: Future Outlook
A comprehensive review (part 4/4)
AI Memory: Market Dynamics
A comprehensive review (part 3/4)
AI Memory: Technical Foundations
A comprehensive review (part 2/4)
AI Memory: Pre-History
A comprehensive review (part 1/4)
Outsiders
Insiders vs Outsiders. Tal's uniqueness and the nature of innovation.
Boldness
Boldness and its costs
The Jean Manifesto
Announcing Jean Connect
Engineering Context
Coordinating Retrieval and Inference
Building Jean Memory
Converting Traction to Product
Jean Memory: The Necessity of Irreverence
This essay was written by jeanmemory.com
Automating the World
Transitioning everything from analog to digital. We are the bottleneck.
Self-Healing Software
The future of software bug reproduction.
B2C Memory Layer
Trying something new here.
MCP, A2A, and the Future of AI Infra
Reassessing our priors.
A → B
Thinking and Doing, Reflexive Learning
The Irreverent Act
The Singularity
Jean - Software for the Individual
My Life's Work - Top-Down and Inside-Out
Vacations
Taking Steps Back
2024
14Politzki’s Law
Maximizing Your Human Potential in a Likely World
Reflections on a Quarter Century of Life
A Belief in the Individual
Structure, People, and Chaos
Your Ideal Structure
Deep User Understanding from Day One
Boost Revenue. The Great Unlock in Personalization.
“Google, Tear Down This Wall”
A quick overview of where we are. Next, where we are going.
General Personal Embeddings
A trusted infrastructure for the age of AI
Launching Irreverent Capital
A fund that builds important businesses.
Return
Return to the Self and Other Interests
Project Delta ∆
Powering Self-Understanding and The Marketplace of Ideas
Deep Learning's Future
Reasonable Trends into 2035
Entrepreneurial Risk
Risk of Failure vs Risk of Never Doing Anything Meaningful
Information Theory of Startups
The Hard Ramp
Project Delta (∆)
A Tool to Decode Yourself
Culture
The Invisible Force of Every Company
2023
12△ - Everything I Know Now
2023 and 2024 recapped
ESSAY 11: TIME
The Hidden Variable
ESSAY 10: ABSTRACTION VS FIRST PRINCIPLES
The path less (and most) traveled; the only answer is there is no answer
ESSAY 9: VALUE, SOCIETY, MONEY & WORK
We may have forgotten why we work
Biotech Week in Review - 05-12-2023
Computational Biotechnology Focus
AMBITIONS (UNEDITED)
Your Life's Work
ESSAY 8: AMBITIONS (EDITED)
Your Life's Work
Biotech Update - 04.21.2023
Some interesting news in the woodwork
Biotech Week in Review | 03-03-2023
This week's innovations in review
What is life?
Essay (1 of 3)
Which direction to live it.
Essay (2 of 3)
Biotech Week in Review | 02-17-2023
This week in review
2022
10HAVE CONVICTIONS
What's stopping you from being you? Hint: It's you
THE LOGOS
The Network State
Business == Execution
“I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.”
A Year of Startups
7 lessons learned from a year of startups.
A New Religion
What is Religion?
Being Alone
A Trend Towards Introversion...
Nephra - 04/21/2022
I haven't posted in a while. Decided I would just paste an email I sent recently to the team as a time capsule; it does still have relevant substance for this blog.
Coming soon
Going to California
My takes on visiting Silicon Valley.
The Cemetery
An exploration of legacy, purpose, and death