Decisions, Not Language: The Core Design Insight for What Comes Next

by iqentity | Jan 19, 2024 | Development, Tessera

I have been sketching the architecture for what I am tentatively calling Tessera. Named for the small tiles that compose a mosaic. Individual decisions are small. Together, they form a picture of how a mind works. The critical design insight came this week: the goal...

Trimodal Retrieval: Why One Search Method Is Never Enough

by iqentity | Jan 18, 2024 | Development, Tessera

The first prototype of Tessera used pure vector search. Embed the query, find the nearest neighbors, feed them to the model. It worked about sixty percent of the time, which is worse than it sounds because the forty percent it missed were the cases where I needed it...

The Problem I Am Actually Solving: Why a Life Assistant Needs an Architecture Nobody Has Built

by iqentity | Jan 11, 2024 | Development, Tessera

I have spent twenty-three years solving problems for other people. Technology problems, business problems, people problems. The irony is that the systems I use to manage my own life are held together with sticky notes, calendar reminders, and a memory that works well...

The Dataset Nobody Else Has: Twenty-Three Years of Decision Records

by iqentity | Jan 10, 2024 | Development, Tessera

I realized this week that I have something most people do not. Not expertise, plenty of people have that. I have a complete, longitudinal record of how I think, decide, correct myself, and act across every domain of my life and work. For over twenty years, every...

The Scaling Problem: Why a Polymath Becomes a Bottleneck

by iqentity | Jan 7, 2024 | Development, Tessera

I have been thinking about a problem that has no conventional solution, and I want to document the thinking as it develops. My domains are unusually broad. Legal reasoning, operations, challenger sales, technical and software architecture, development, product...