Weaving Memory Part 3: Memory Isn't RAG, and RAG Isn't Memory
The final part of Weaving Memory. A neuroscience document mapped biological memory onto data storage. Loom had six of eight principles. The two it missed changed the spec.
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A Thousand Acres
Cal Newport wrote a book about the craftsman mindset. My dad built a house. One of them taught me what the other left out.
Confidence Engineering - Part 5: Confidently Execute Authority
When the gate becomes the bottleneck, just open the gate.
Confidence Engineering - Part 4: The Variable Nobody Measures
You measured confidence. You never measured what failure costs. That's the variable that was driving every component of the framework from the start.
You Can't Solve Reliability Without Governance
The current generation of AI reliability tooling solves a hard problem. It stops at the code boundary. What lives on the other side is why AI adoption actually fails.
Weaving Memory Part 2: The Groove Problem
The second part of Weaving Memory. What the build taught me about the comfort-amplifier risk I named in Part 1, and why grounding memory outside the probabilistic system was the move I did not see in the spec.