From Lab to Life30 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Right Context, Not All of It
Written deliberately as a lesson rather than a product story, taught through The Curator v3.80.0.
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life20 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Context Engine
Three kinds of context, three write rules, and a project that outlives the session, the harness, the model and the machine
From Lab to Life3 Sep 2026 · Essay
Where Your Context Lives
The Curator ships as a native Mac app (v3.45.0). Covers the three layers (personal wiki, Shared Brain, agent working state), the menu-bar widget, bring-your-own-key across three providers at about €5 a month, and plain-markdown portability.
From Lab to Life30 Aug 2026 · Essay
The Handoff Writes Itself
The confession piece about two years of hand-written handoff files. The flaw: the most degraded model writes the most important document.
From Lab to Life24 Aug 2026 · Essay
Field Notes
I turned fifty-plus articles into a corpus you can question, download, and hand to your own AI.
From Lab to Life3 Jul 2026 · Essay
Second Brain to Shared Brain: Building a Neural Network of Your Own Knowledge
A follow-up seven weeks after the Shared Brain launch. The author's own wiki has 3,305 nodes and 15,095 edges at v3.0.6.
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From Lab to Life18 Jun 2026 · Essay
The Curator — Product Update (v3.0.1-beta.20 → beta.23)
Release notes for The Curator v3.0.1 beta.20 to beta.23: Shared Brain synchronisation improvements, a new test-automation infrastructure, and stability fixes.
From Lab to Life19 May 2026 · Essay
The Shared Brain: When Second Brains Start Thinking Together
Introduces The Curator v3.0.0-beta Shared Brain: private, attributed contributions merged into a collective wiki for teams and cohorts.
From Lab to Life14 May 2026 · Essay
The Agent Memory Problem — And Why Your Second Brain Might Be the Answer
A survey of how the industry is attacking agent memory (vendor memory products, vector stores, managed memory services, file-based memory), why context windows alone fail at agent scale ("context rot"), and why a compiled Markdown…
From Lab to Life27 Apr 2026 · Essay
From Graph to Intelligence: The My Curator MCP and the Art of Querying Your Second Brain
How My Curator MCP Turns Your Second Brain into a Frontier AI Research Partner
From Lab to Life23 Apr 2026 · Essay
Building Knowledge Immortality Through the Second Brain Architecture and The Curator App
The philosophical case for the second brain: knowledge immortality, externalised expertise, and curation (compounding) versus retrieval (stateless).
From Lab to Life15 Apr 2026 · Essay
The Second Brain That Grows Smarter and Lives on Your Computer
Introduces The Curator through Karpathy's "LLM as wiki" insight: a local, private, Markdown-based knowledge graph that Obsidian can read.