Compressing Cognition: The Real Efficiency Gain

People ask about efficiency gains in terms of time saved. The real gain is different, and I want to describe it precisely. What My Time Actually Goes To For most senior decisions, my time is not spent on the final answer. It is spent on: re-reading long email chains....

What Tessera Actually Does in a Day

Six months of development. The holdout experiment validated the approach. The architecture is stable. Time to document what daily use actually looks like. Morning: Email Triage The overnight email queue contains a mix of escalations, strategic discussions, vendor...

Fiction, Strategy, and the Extended Corpus

Tessera’s primary corpus is my decision history. But I also ingested a secondary corpus that changes what she can do: my complete reading history. Legal textbooks, OEM manuals, technical standards, psychology, leadership theory, strategy, and fiction. Why the...

The Dataset That Made Tessera Possible

I want to be specific about why this dataset enables something that most datasets cannot. The answer is not volume. I already had volume. The answer is five properties that happen to be present simultaneously. Longitudinal in a True Sense The dataset spans more than...