Every enterprise has a system of record. Every person has... email: a compost heap.
What we need: a garden that grows from that compost. Something we tend, prune, curate. An emergent system of record for our personal lives.
LLMs should handle the weeding. We should choose what blooms.
Alex Komoroskex.comEvery enterprise has a system of record. Every person has... email: a compost heap. What we need: a garden that grows from that compost. Something we tend, prune, curate. An emergent system of record for our personal lives. LLMs should handle the weeding. We should choose what blooms.
Think of it as a spectrum. Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years. Gardening sits in the middle.... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
What goes into building an AI application:
• Query rewriting, lexical+embedding retrieval, ranking
• Lots of extraction (key phrase, name, date)
• Plugins (calendar, summarization, context, etc.)
• Good ol' heuristics (date/name boosting,... See more