Search, memory & intention
How systems form, retain, and revise interpretations: from the reasons to trust a source, through the memory of an intervention, to an account of a person’s goal.
Research / Meaning & memory
12 min read The Phenomenology of Search: From Similarity to Reasons for Trust
Start with representation: how search relates descriptions, and why a relevant source still needs reasons for trust.
Research / Meaning & memory
16 min read Memory & Agency: What Should an Agent Remember?
Carry the evidence forward: distinguish records from lessons, design fast assistance and slow review, and test what memory changes.
Research / Meaning & memory
16 min read The Geometry of Intention: What Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Goals
Interpret a visitor’s current task: connect context, competing explanations, patterns, and permitted responses without treating an inference as fact.
Companion reading
Experiment / Systems & agents
16 min read Building to Learn: What Three Weeks of Prototyping Taught Us About Agentic Marketing Optimization
Experimental companion: follow synthetic findings through observation, review, and reuse.
Essay / Human agency
12 min read The Empowerment Imperative: What Should Agentic Marketing Optimize?
Human purpose: decide what a response should protect as well as optimize.